Accounts Assistant

Emerald Star is part of the Le Boat family who are the market leader of self-drive boating holidays across Europe and Canada’s inland waterways. With over 50 years of experience and operating a fleet designed to suit all party sizes and budgets where no licence and no experience is required, everyone can enjoy a holiday with Le Boat. Welcoming guests from all around the world including North America, Germany and France, Le Boat provides holidays in 9 different countries, with France being the largest destination and the Canal Du Midi the most famous and popular cruising ground. Emerald Star Ltd operates its fleet on the beautiful waterways of Ireland.

**What you will be doing**:
**Accounts Payable**:

- Communicating with relevant suppliers to process invoices and payment queries
- Attaching correct documentation (approvals) to invoices and reconciling purchase orders to invoices received
- Postings invoices & credit notes and ensuring they are coded correctly in SAP
- Preparing monthly supplier statement reconciliations
- Preparing & processing supplier payments and ensuring senior finance manager has signed off all payments
- Monthly Automated payment proposals - uploading import files to HSBC
- Ensuring that all accounts payable activities align with relevant financial processes & procedures
- Investigating and resolving outstanding creditor items
- Liaising with Ireland Base Managers to ensure that Invoices processed/Purchase Orders completed are accurately
- updated to ensure accruals can be accounted accurately at month end
- Set up New Suppliers on SAP in line with internal control procedures

**Accounts Receivable**:

- Our POS system is called Le Till and is not integrated with SAP 3SL which is our accounting software.
- Le Till is used by our bases to record all local income and bases produce Z report at end of day.
- This data needs to be transposed to a journal & uploaded into SAP
- This task is required for 4 Locations, 8 bases across Ireland, Holland, Belgium & Canada
- Recording - uploading data via Journals from Le Till to SAP 3SL
- Balancing data from EOD Files (end of day files) & PDQ machines to Z Reports produced locally at bases
- Liaising with Base Reception staff to ensure differences are reconciled
- Maintaining log of differences to assist in balancing bank transactions
- Ensure all transactions are aligned with company processes & procedures
- Month End Reconciliation of Balance sheet accounts relating to local income

**Neptune**:

- Neptune is our reservation system which captures all holiday related monies processed by our varies sales offices.
- Neptune is not worked with SAP 3SL
- Journal Emerald Star payment batches into SAP 3SL (Euro & GBP)

**Banking**:

- Bank Reconciliations 2 x Emerald Star Bank of Ireland accounts
- Journals Direct Debit payments on bank to suppliers (Bord Gais/Elavon/DCI/Three/Eircom)
- Reconcile Local Income for Ireland (Le Till) to bank transactions
- Customer relations refund requests for Emerald Star - raise manual payments on HSBC & journal to SAP

**What are we looking for**:

- Experience in accounting software (SAP 3SL)
- Experience in deciphering and prioritising large amounts of data
- Excellent at Excel(VLOOKUP up/H-Look up/Pivot/Formulas)
- Should have experience in Bank & Balance sheet reconciliations
- Attention to accuracy & detail and Excellent time management of daily, weekly & monthly tasks

**What we can offer**:

- Competitive salary with annual salary review
- Annual leave
- Bonuses
- Health insurance and Life insurance
- Travel benefits and retail discounts

We believe people are happier and perform best when they can be their true selves, and that diverse teams deliver better results.

Together we will cultivate a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, where everyone can thrive. We are committed to motivating change through growing awareness of, and counteracting unconscious bias; building an inclusive culture, and embracing diversity in all its dimensions.

Travelopia is committed to ensuring a work environment that is open, accessible, and inclusive, removing barriers for all individuals. If you require accommodations/additional support to participate in the recruitment and selection process, kindly advise us. Our hiring team will work with you to provide suitable accommodations/additional in a timely and confidential manner. Information received will be handled with the utmost discretion.

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