French Speaking Accounts Associate

Accounts Associate

Salary: Competitive

Must be Fluent in English and French

Who We Are

Founded and continuously led by inventor and entrepreneur Tony Aquila, Solera is a global leader in digital technologies that connect and secure life's most important assets: our cars, homes and identities. Since its inception in 2005 as a garage-based startup, Solera has grown aggressively with over 50 acquisitions across its platforms The company's current product solutions include Audatex, Autodata, AutoPoint, CAP/HPI, Colimbra, Digidentity, Enservio, Explore Data, Hollander, Identifix, Inpart, LYNX and TitleTec, as well as the company's flagship Digital Garage application. Today, Solera processes over 300 million transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in over 80 countries. Unified by a strong culture that values uncommon entrepreneurial thinking and continuous "do-it-different" innovation, Solera's global workforce of 6,700+ associates come from diverse forward-thinking industries that include automotive technology, artificial intelligence, software development, data sciences, cybersecurity, cognitive design, and digital identity protection. 

Audatex part of the Solera group are the leading provider of motor damage estimating solutions in the UK and similarly globally have a strong presence in over 86 countries. Audatex provide software and data solutions combined which assist the insurance industry in terms of cost control for spend on repairs to accident damaged vehicles.

The Solera Way

Solera’s uncommon culture is based on three simple principles: Think 80/20 (Focus), Act 30/30 (Efficiency), and Live 90/10 (Accountability). We define our mindset using Our 3H’s: Humility, a Hunger to succeed, and a desire to Hunt for opportunities to win. We train our team to engage with each other modulating between their intellect (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ) using our 3Fs: Facts, Finesse, and Force. Solera has become a global technology leader that is constantly growing in the double digits. The principles, drills, and values associated with the Solera Way have been fundamental to Solera’s success and our ability to grow, continuously change, and innovate.

Our Space

• Location-wise, we are based in Theale and Maidenhead, so you would be located between the 2 offices
• Our office setting is open plan and we work collaboratively as a team.
• Smart casual is our dress code and we are open to flexible start and end times and some remote working (with agreement from your manager).
• We offer weekly fruit to keep the team healthy!
• We also like to celebrate company success, funding legendary summer and winter parties.
• There are frequent opportunities internally to learn and grow into other fields / disciplines. Career progression is important to us.

Are You Uncommon?

The Accounts Associate will be responsible for supporting the Finance Manager in assisting with preparing financial statements and UK and International accounts, managing ledgers, and Month end close activates. It will be the day to day workings and reporting of the Finance Associate that will guide the recommendations ultimately improving business performance profitability and future growth.  Standards will be met by implementing standard in production, customer service and quality while identifying improvements in the systems and resolving problems. This role reports into Finance Manager.

To be successful in this role, this individual must be fluent in both English and French, have methodical, analytical approach and be able to work to challenging deadlines whilst remaining flexible to the needs of the business. They must be able to demonstrate a proactive attitude and always take the initiative in ensuring project outputs are delivered on time and to the expected quality. They will enjoy working in a strong cross-discipline team in a Software/Technology environment focussed on delivery of robust, high quality, value adding solutions to Solera’s customers.

What You’ll Be Doing as an Accounts Associate

At Solera, we believe in providing clarity and focus to what are volunteers are responsible for – their mission. The 80’s, as we call them at Solera, are the employee’s priorities associated with their role or mission. The mission 80’s for this role, are:

• Review the ledgers for accuracy and adjusting miss-postings
• Working closely with our International accounting advisers to close month end
• Reconcile all the banks and post the bank entries
• Performing and investigating balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis
• Support with month end reporting
• Preparation of statistical submissions
• Dealing with auditor queries

Are You Qualified for the Accounts Associate Role?

• Qualifications: Educated to degree level. Part-Qualified Accountant. Relevant experience.
• Knowledge: Previously worked in similar capacity ideally within an international organisation. Strong financial background. Experience of fast paced, dynamic environments. Knowledge of Finance systems and Microsoft Office applications.
• Fluent in English and French
• Prior Accounting experience
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics AX and Navision

If you would like to be considered for the Accounts associate role please click “Apply” below

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