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Purchase Ledger Clerk
  • United Kingdom - West Midlands - Dudley -
1 year ago
Purchase Ledger Clerk
Full Time
Job Description
  • The role involves a wide range of responsibilities from liquidity and cash management through to financial reporting and accounts production, including management reporting, budgeting and forecasting
  • The role is therefore suited to a newly qualified accountant with good technical skills who wants to develop good all round knowledge.
  • Requires the role holder to work independently and proactively, interacting closely with various stakeholders at all levels across the Finance function and the business
  • Cash and liquidity management for all UK entities
  • Overseeing all inter-group lending between UK entities and the wider Group
  • Managing all treasury and financial risks
  • Foreign exchange management including ensuring appropriate funding structures in place for non-GBP investments (e.g. Merchant Banking)
  • Oversight of all UK debt issues, including responsibility for monitoring covenants and all other information requirements
  • Manage deployment of surplus cash
  • Develop medium term cash and capital projections
  • Improve working capital management
  • Develop relationships with banks, money funds, trading platforms and any other relevant bodies
  • Reporting to the Executive Committee on all balance sheet and treasury matters
  • Responsible for the preparation of the annual financial statements for a number of UK subsidiaries and assisting with NMR’s annual financial statements
  • Complete Group reporting for UK companies, including analyzing and agreeing intra-group and company transactions
  • Prepare finance board papers for UK companies
  • Prepare regulatory returns for UK regulated entities
  • Liaise with taxation manager to estimate tax provisions, to provide information for preparation of corporation tax returns
  • Responsible for reconciliation of various balance sheet accounts and control of the general ledger

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and highly numerate
  • Excellent organizational skills with experience of managing time to deliver on a number of projects concurrently
  • Good communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Excel proficiency (including pivot tables); able to manage large volumes of data
  • Proficiency in presentation production (including PowerPoint)
  • Ability to manage a varied and often pressured workload; self-starter able to take the initiative
  • Newly qualified accountant with good academic record
  • Role would suit someone with a range of experience in an audit firm or who has experience of working in a corporate environment, preferably in financial services or other professional services industries
  • Experience of SAP accounting package preferable

Reference no: 73762

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