Assistant Financial Accountant

Posted 20 May 2019
Salary £28000 - £35000 per annum
Job type Permanent
Discipline Accounting & Finance
ReferenceKMCCW_1558367927
Contact NameKelvin Murphy

Job description

Our client, a hospitality giant based in Wimbledon, are looking for an enthusiastic Assistant accountant to join their team. The ideal candidate(you!) will have previous CIT and IFRS experience. Experience with assisting audits is also a bonus.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assist with the year end audit process at both group and local levels including liaising with external audit firms, accounting for audit adjustments, prepare/review consolidation and prepare/review financial statements. Ensure adherence to IFRS/Local GAAP including all new standards and amendments.
  • Responsibility for the management reporting packs for several different hospitality related investments to third party investors and lenders in Europe on a quarterly/monthly/annual basis.
  • Liaise with hotel financial controllers to undertake quarterly balance sheet reviews and P&L reviews to facilitate reporting. Ensure quality of underlying TBs provided by hotel financial controllers or external accountants by applying appropriate controls, processes and quality reviews throughout the year including performing regular balance sheet reviews and profit and loss reviews at hotel/operational entity level. Focusing on debtor and creditor balances, ageing analysis/issues and other accounting and collection matters.
  • Produce quarterly IFRS consolidated group accounts for hotel groups for reporting for investors.
  • Provide fast and accurate analysis and calculations to assist the wider Finance team
  • Monitor financial statement compliance of entities within the investments ensuring no deadlines are missed within countries and liaising with the Tax Manager as required.
  • National Statistics compliance
  • Assist local level accountants with double entry bookkeeping
  • Perform quarterly balance sheet reviews and profit and loss reviews for a selection of holding companies.
  • Review VAT and CIT returns
  • Prepare or review year-end tax provisions and tax reconciliation notes for the annual accounts
  • Assist on tax modelling and projects.

Key Requirement's:

  • Part Qualified
  • Experience with IFRS
  • Experience with CIT
  • Consolidations experience
  • Hotel experience is also very advantageous