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Assistant Accountant

Status: Actively looking
Location: London
Desired location: London
Exp. years: 6+ years
Job Type: Permanent,Contract
Availability: Immediate
Overview:

Candidate Summary:

A reliable, hard-working, and self-motivated individual with over 9 years of experience in financial roles. They have a strong ability to meet tight deadlines and maintain high working standards. They have demonstrated their ability to suggest and implement changes for process efficiency.

Employment: Assistant Accountant

2017 - 2023

  • 30+ bank reconciliations monthly including several currencies incl. GBP, USD, EUR, HUF, PLN & INR
  • Assisted in reforecasting, budgets and LRP across multiple entities.
  • Monthly cashflows for 7 trading entities
  • Cashflow forecasts for audit and budgeting
  • Owner of SOX testing controls and performing 20+ key controls for external auditors biannually
  • Updated trial balances and posting YE journals to meet US and UK GAAP requirements.
  • Yearly reporting for companies’ house submission
  • Forex journals monthly across multiple currencies incl. CZK, SEK, ZAR
  • Updating weekly balances of all UK bank accounts to provide to US treasury
  • P&L files month end
  • Solving intercompany mismatches monthly and liaising with international business units.
  • Monthly accruals / prepayments
  • Quarterly reconciliations / AIP’s

 

Skills:

The candidate has skills in Excel (SumIfs, VLookups, Pivots), Oracle, Maconomy, Perceptive, and QuickBooks. They also have experience in bank reconciliations, SOX testing controls, updating trial balances, and managing programming assets and liabilities files.

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