As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
FTC Assistant Financial Accountant – Basildon/Hybrid
Job Description
SS&C Technologies seek an Assistant Financial Accountant for a 12 month Fixed Term Contract. This role will report to the Head of Accounting and undertake general ledger accounting and analysis activities across multiple legal entities.
This is a unique opportunity to blend financial industry knowledge with technology skills, in a vibrant, international work environment. You get to tap into the knowledge of leading financial institutions as well as our experienced team, to learn and develop skills that will ultimately help you progress your career and grow a solid network within the fin-tech industry.
About SS&C Technologies
SS&C Wealth & Investment Technologies is a leading provider of award-winning technology and services for the investment management industry worldwide. Our 5000+ clients across 50+ countries include asset managers, wealth managers, family offices, alternative investment managers, fund administrators, brokers, banks, and insurance.
Our solutions streamline their processes for portfolio management, trading and order management, compliance, accounting, performance analytics, reporting and more.
Your Responsibilities
- Month end accruals & prepayments
- Assist with fixed assets accounting, including additions and disposals
- Analysing large volumes of transactions for variance and trend reporting
- Monthly reconciliation of balance sheet and control accounts, and resolution of outstanding variances
- Preparation of balance sheet account reconciliations in accordance with monthly deadlines
- Liaise with colleagues to address miscoding’s or other issues identified, to improve underlying processing
- Assisting with PWC audit queries
- To communicate and promote the values which reinforce and support a consistent quality culture.
Your Experience
- Experience and confidence using Excel including pivot tables
- Strong general accounting knowledge - double entry, accruals, fixed assets
- Experience of analysing large volumes of data
- Experience of balance sheet account reconciliation, and control
- Previous experience of using Workday GL is preferable
- AAT, ACCA, CIMA or Degree qualifications desirable but not essential for this position.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a diverse workforce in the widest sense.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from head-hunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
Background Checks
All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks, including 5-year employment history, proof of eligibility to work in the hiring location, proof of address, credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law). The accuracy of all information you submit as part of your application is vital and may be used as part of the background-checking process should you be successful.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
