Accountant
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: 73765