Finance Accountant

Company Description

SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,500 laboratories and business facilities across 115 countries, supported by a team of 99,500 dedicated professionals. With over 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, compliance, and sustainability. 

Job Description

To support the Accounts Payable, Treasury, and General Ledger functions by ensuring supplier invoices, payment processing, bank transactions, month-end entries, payroll journals, and bank reconciliations are completed accurately, efficiently, and in line with approved workflows, internal controls, and finance procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Process supplier invoices accurately and within agreed timelines, ensuring correct coding, supporting documentation, and compliance with approval workflows.
• Upload bank payment files and process approved supplier payments through the ERP system and banking platforms in line with approved payment cycles.
• Prepare and post additional month-end journal entries within the agreed month-end close timetable.
• Prepare, validate, and post payroll journals in coordination with payroll and HR stakeholders.
• Complete bank reconciliations by matching bank statement transactions to accounting records and following up on reconciling items.
• Post bank entries accurately, including receipts, payments, bank charges, transfers, and other treasury-related transactions.
• Maintain complete documentation for supplier invoices, payment approvals, payroll journals, bank reconciliations, month-end entries, and audit support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 3–6 years of relevant experience in Accounts Payable, Treasury Operations, General Ledger, Finance Operations, Shared Services, or month-end close support.
• Strong understanding of invoice processing, supplier payments, bank entries, bank reconciliations, payroll journals, accounting entries, and month-end close procedures.
• Experience working with ERP systems such as Oracle, SUN Systems, SAP, or similar finance platforms is highly desirable.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including reconciliations, lookups, pivot tables, structured data review, and month-end schedules.

Additional Information

Required Skills

• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, confidentiality, and commitment to financial control.
• Good analytical, numerical, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple invoice, payment, posting, reconciliation, payroll journal, and month-end tasks within strict deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Professional approach to supplier management, bank transactions, payroll data handling, stakeholder coordination, documentation, and escalation handling