Finance Industrial Placement

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Whatever you want to get out of your career – with McDonald’s, you can. For the tenth consecutive year, we appeared in the ‘25 Best Workplaces’ list (for Large Organisations) from the Great Place to Work® Institute and have also been ranked in the top 10 of The Sunday Times ’25 Best Big Companies to Work For’ list since 2012 thanks to our highly engaged workforce. In our workplace, we promote flexibility, opportunity, equality and development. McDonald’s employees come from all walks of life, but share a common approach: positivity. We know that happy employees help to make happy customers, so we want you to enjoy your work.

Finance Industrial Placement

• 52 week contract (typically July 2018 – July 2019)
• 12 month placement position
• £13,500 (plus £3,000 London Weighting Allowance if applicable)
• 4 weeks holiday + bank holidays
• Access to discounts at over 1,600 retailers through our employee discounts website
• Personalised employee discount card, offering discounts off selected McDonald’s food and a subsidised gym membership (Nuffield Health)
• Based in Shoreditch, London
• Reports to Finance Manager – Global Accounting and Reporting Team

Job Purpose

• Active role within the Management Accounting, Financial Accounting and Planning & Reporting area of the Global Finance team
• You will work as an active member of the Global Accounting and Reporting

Main Responsibilities

Assist with Financial Audit Preparation (External Auditors) - Journal Entries Selection
• Compiling Invoices and their backups
• Balance Confirmation with McDonald’s Markets

Assist with the 2018 P&L and Trial Balance Review & 2019 Planning Process - Monthly Cost analysis by Reporting Lines and Cost Centres/ Department as well as Entity Level
• Projections Analysis

Assisting in Month End Activities

Assisting with tracking invoices and chasing suppliers for invoices - Effectively communicating over email and telephone to resolve any issues with contacts
• Being vigilant when approving invoices and processing their payment

General and Admin Accounting + Reporting - Ensure correct coding
• Building & Maintaining Reports
• Monthly, Quarterly, Other Ad hoc Reporting
• Maintaining and communicating live Cost Centre Structure & Hierarchy list and working closely with the US Team Members to ensure Oracle Database is aligned
• Use of AS400 Software on a daily basis
• Bank Matching for Incoming payments
• Maintaining and reconciling Balance sheet accounts
• Ensuring invoices are coded to the correct cost centre and account.
• Issuing purchase orders for IT spend
• Reviewing and Submitting payroll deductions for the subsidised gym memberships programmes
• Assisting in the Employee T&E process and T&E Audit
• New joiner accounting processes and setup

Assisting the Tax Accounting Team with Various Queries and Tasks - Support with VAT returns
• Support with Tax Compliance (Tax returns, Annual Accounts)

Various Project works based on the Business needs

Knowledge and Experience

• Adaptable with a positive, can do attitude and organised
• Good level of analytical & numerical skills
• Good understanding of Accounting principles and double entries
• A strong level of IT proficiency (Microsoft Packages) – especially Excel including formulae

How to Apply

Please send the below to Emily Kennedy
Emily.Kennedy@uk.mcd.com:

• A cover letter
• A copy of your CV
• A completed application form