Job Description

My Client, a foreign exchange specialist, based in the City of London are looking for a Dutch Junior Management Accountant to join their finance team. This fast-paced team are looking for a positive, reliable and well organised individual who has proven experience working in a similar role. Must have excellent excel skills.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

To work closely with the management accountants to learn all aspects of financial management across assigned entities.

Financial Reporting and Control

• Prepare monthly management accounts
• Ensure the management accounts are compliant with country/regional regulations.
• Work with the Finance team to agree inter-company reconciliations
• Attend a month end meeting and discuss any issues with the monthly management accounts or reconciliations and work with the team to resolve any queries and agree how to close.
• Assist with prepayments and loans
• Prepare local payroll in line and final payment
• Prepare monthly reports for the local teams and ad hoc reports as and when required.
• Monitor and reconcile Company credit cards, resolving any discrepancies
• Reconcile bank accounts and investigate discrepancies
• Prepare year end statutory accounts
• Prepare information for internal and external audits
• Monitor and reconcile petty cash budget and usage
• Preparation of bank covenant calculations
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliations
• Assist to investigate and resolve any discrepancies or misallocated costs

Tax and Compliance

• Prepare tax returns
• Complete reconciliation of tax information
• Ensure tax is processed in line with regional requirement
• Ensure manuals and procedures are kept up to date with any change in regional requirements or regulations
• Assist clear controls in place and followed to reduce errors

Accounts Payables/Receivables Group

• Collate and prepare invoices for payment
• Assist to maintain accurate and up to date supplier records

Strategic Planning and Financial Planning & Analysis

• Maintain controls to minimise risks
• Prepare variance analysis of financial reports as requested

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Prepare any information required to support with forecasting and budgets

Requirements and Experience

• Previous experience of working within in a regulated investment firm
• Some experience working within a similar role within a commercial environment
• MS Office; Outlook, Word, advanced Excel including V-Lookups, pivot tables
• Experience using Sun Accounts systems is an advantage
• Good demonstrable knowledge of UK financial Regulations etc.
• Some knowledge of the regulatory environment in which an FX firm operates
• Able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the purpose of risk management and compliance within a regulated environment
• Experience working with assigned country/region.
• Ability to analyse complicated data
• Experience dealing with both internal and external auditors

Education and Qualifications

• Educated to Degree-level or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience
• A degree in accounting and bookkeeper or relevant training course an advantage
• First 3 papers or willing to studying ACCA or CIMA or ACA
• Current CPD Log - 12 hours per calendar year.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Previous experience of working within in a regulated investment firm • Some experience working within a similar role within a commercial environment • MS Office; Outlook, Word, advanced Excel including V-Lookups, pivot tables • Experience using Sun Accounts systems is an advantage • Good demonstrable knowledge of UK financial Regulations etc. • Some knowledge of the regulatory environment in which an FX firm operates • Able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the purpose of risk management and compliance within a regulated environment • Experience working with assigned country/region. • Ability to analyse complicated data • Experience dealing with both internal and external auditors