Staff Accountant (3716) - GBG

About GBG

GBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most.  

Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams, power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organizations to reach and trust their customers.  

Why you should be@GBG  

Reach 

The precision of location data is critical to businesses that need to know exactly where their customers are so they can reduce failed deliveries, share great customer experiences, and remove unnecessary costs. We provide the unique insight to know locations as well as the people who live there because we understand global addresses better than anyone else.  

This means our customers have confidence that their products and services will arrive in time and to the right location In the race to serve global customers, we exist to help every business in the world, reach every customer in the world.   

Trust  

When a digital business grows, most customers are genuine. However, many are fraudsters who manipulate identities to gain illegitimate access. We give our customers unique insight to decide which are trustworthy and which are fraudulent because we understand identity better than anyone else. 

This means businesses can confidently onboard good customers, reward great customers and reject fraudsters. In the fight against Identity, Fraud, trust is key, so the more you can know and the earlier you know it, the better decisions you can make.  

Finance & Accounting

Our finance team is central to the success of the business. Our aim is to proactively drive business value through informed and insightful decision-making. We work in partnership with the business and are agile and responsive to business needs whilst maintaining a transparent system of effective standards, processes and controls. To support this goal we strive to have highly engaged finance professionals in our team. We’re on an exciting journey, and we have the strategies in place to get us to our destination.

The Role

As part of a US Finance team, the Staff Accountant role will have the opportunity to really make a mark on the future success of GBG, and your record of achievements. Working from our Atlanta headquarters, the role will report to the US Financial Controller within this fast paced and acquisitive organization.

What you will do

This role will execute a variety of accounting procedures: reconciling bank accounts, posting vendor invoices, reconciling and processing monthly expense claims, raising payments, month-end and year-end closing tasks, completing audit requests, and ad hoc reporting requests and tasks assigned by senior team members. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated go-getter and self-starter, eager to thrive in a fast-pace environment and possess analytical and technical capabilities to support the Finance Team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting is required
• Accounting qualification (or studying towards) with a solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and experience of reconciliation work
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills
• Experience with Microsoft Business Central is advantageous.
• First rate interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to work to strict deadlines and a mature approach to work is essential
• Good computer literacy skills with proficiency in Excel (Vlookups and pivot tables)
• The ability to autonomously plan your workload and focus on the right priorities
• Good problem-solving and time management skills
• Proven ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Highly organized and detail-oriented

Additionally

• You will be able to demonstrate a positive, engaging, hard-working approach and exhibit the company values of Trust, Results, Understanding, Straight forward, Team Player, Example, and Develop.
• A highly motivated individual, who brings energy and confidence, and can work as part of a team;
• A self-starter with a “can do” attitude able to operate in an autonomous, hands-on environment

Benefits

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process. 

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to behired@gbgplc.com and we’ll be in touch. You can also check out our career site here.  

Why not apply and make life@GBG work for you?