£38000 - £42000 Per year
Assistant Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- General assistance in the monthly financial close process, posting manual journals and processing inter-company transactions, including invoices, credit notes and other journals such as dividends, funding, loans and associated interest entries
- Maintaining inter-company reconciliations, providing mediation for inter-company disputes
- Preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations, resolving differences and ensuring corrective actions are taken in conjunction with the relevant business units
- Review of accounting policies and standard operating procedures
- Responsibility for the preparation and delivery of the standalone statutory accounts for annual audit
- Assist the Group Financial Accountant in documenting the formal accounting treatment of significant contracts or transactions and obtain a timely sign-off from the auditors
- Performance of, and compliance with internal controls with respect to the Group's external reporting and continuous improvement of controls
- Preparation and submission of additional ad-hoc management reports and analyses
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Degree in finance/accounting or related discipline from a recognized tertiary institution
- Part qualified accounting qualification (ACCA/AAT/CIMA/ACA etc.)
- Strong academic performance at tertiary level in the relevant discipline
- Maintaining ledgers of holding companies/head office
- Strong performer in previous role
- Highly analytical
- Good Excel skills
- Ability to "think out of the box" and create from scratch
Reference no: 107160