Assistant Accountant - General Ledger (MATERNITY COVER)

ChangeGroup, a leading global provider in foreign currency exchange, is actively seeking a motivated and committed individual to take on the role of Assistant Accountant, General Ledger in our London Head Office. The role is specifically to provide MATERNITY COVER for a minimum period of 9 months with a potential to extend as needed.

Job Purpose: To assist the UK based Management Accountants in maintaining accurate financial records, preparing month-end financial accounts and ensuring compliance with accounting principles.

Key Responsibilities:

• Financial Record Maintenance: Compile and analyse financial information to prepare entries to general ledger accounts, ensuring accuracy and compliance with accepted policies and procedures.
• Month-End and Year-End Closing: Manage the month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing processes in a timely manner, including preparing and posting journal entries, sub-ledger to ledger reconciliations and managing the accruals and prepayment processes.
• Perform full Trial Balance review: review all unusual balances, post approved reclassifications and corrections and support the Management Accountant in resolving all queries.
• Account Reconciliation: Perform fixed asset and payroll account reconciliations in a timely manner, ensuring that all discrepancies are identified and resolved.
• Key Controls & Compliance: Ensure integrity and completeness of general ledger, maintain clear audit trail and documentation of all journal entries posted, enforce strict cut-off and approved controls and ensure all reconciliations and reviews complete before period close.
• Audit Support: Support the Management Accountant for the year-end audits, providing necessary documentation and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Process Improvement: Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to optimise service quality and enhance financial operations.
• Operations: Assist in streamlining and improving the general ledger process and exercise integrity and confidentiality in financial reporting.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 3–6 years of General Ledger accounting experience.
• Strong understanding of month-end close processes.
• Experience of Oracle ERP system.
• Knowledge of intercompany, payroll, and fixed asset accounting.

Core attributes for success in this role:

• Achieves High Standards: Achieves and maintains performance excellence, despite obstacles, whilst maintaining attention to detail.
• Builds & Maintains Relationships: Connects with and influences others to create and maintain relationships built upon mutual respect, understanding and trust.
• Flexibility: Able to cope with and embrace change, be flexible and handle uncertainty.
• Promotes Team Work: Participates collaboratively in work across functions, boundaries and all levels across the business to achieve common goals.
• Sets the Pace: Senses and exploits growth and improvement opportunities and exhibits a sense of urgency and personal ownership.

Salary: £33,333 per annum PRO RATA

Pension: 5% company pension contribution

To Apply: Please attach your CV. Please also attach a covering letter: Tell us about you, your current job, your individual strengths and why you feel you are best suited for the position. We are looking to hire as soon as possible!