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Accountant

Epic Games

London, United Kingdom 08-29-2024
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  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Mid (2-5 years) Experience
Job Description
ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

What We Do
Our Finance and Accounting teams build the financial infrastructure to scale our growing company. We combine analytical and strategic thinking to develop a sound financial future for our global brand. We work closely with teams across the company, international subsidiaries, as well as with external partners to ensure a world-class finance organization. Our team contains experts from fields like tax, treasury, purchasing, FP&A, and more.

What You'll Do

We are looking for an Accountant to manage a number of our UK-based subsidiaries. This person will join our growing International Finance team which serves subsidiaries in: UK and Canada. You will work alongside existing members of the International Finance team and partner with them and others within Epic to deliver high quality financial reporting, day-to-day accounting and support ad-hoc finance related projects.

In this role, you will
• Ensure completeness, accuracy and quality in areas of General Ledger accounting and financial reporting within your responsibility
• Assist with the month end and year end financial closing activities for a number of UK and Canadian subsidiaries
• Record journal entries (timely and accurately) and perform account reconciliations across certain GL accounts
• Assist other members of the GL Accounting team and assist with the annual statutory audit requirements for UK and Canadian subsidiaries
• Collaborate regarding system and process enhancements including UAT when necessary
• Fixed asset accounting and administration (including depreciation, asset tracking and leases) and accrual and provision calculations and postings
• Intercompany reconciliations and mismatch corrections and be the point-of-contact for any accounting or transactional queries from the Business

What we're looking for
• 3-5 years recent and relevant work experience
• Relevant education in finance, accounting or business administration
• Part or recently qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent)
• Strong knowledge of General Ledger accounting processes and procedures
• Team player and collaborative
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines in a timely manner
• Experience of dealing with External Auditor requests
• Strong communications, presentation, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to summarize key accounting and operational issues to management
• Experience of working in different ERP systems (Workday is preferable)
• Someone who is user-focused, solutions-focused, and innovative with excellent organizational skills
• Strong MS Excel skills preferred
• Independent and self-starter with a ''can-do'' attitude

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmbvz3-3-135-184-103-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Epic Games

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.