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Junior Management Accountant
- Posted 05 June 2020
- Salary Up to £29000 per annum
- Location
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Accounting & Finance
- Referencebs765_1591365218
- Contact NameSinead Lennon-Smith
Job description
My Client, a foreign exchange specialist, based in the City of London are looking for a Junior Management Accountant to join their finance team. This fast-paced team and looking for a positive, reliable and well organised individual with proven experience within a similar role using SUN. Must have excellent excel skills.
Role:
Junior Management Accountant
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
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
Business Knowledge / Technical Skills:
- Previous experience of working within in a regulated investment firm
- Some experience working within a similar role within a commercial environment
- Good demonstrable knowledge of UK financial Regulations etc.
- Some awareness of financial regulations, compliance and risk management within assigned country/region.
- 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
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.