Senior Accountant with ACCA or CIMA

Overview

Senior Accountant ACCA CIMA

Our client is an international company with offices in the City of London. They are looking to recruit a Qualified Accountant with an ACCA or CIMA qualification with at least 3 to 5 years PQE. The company is engaged with various dynamic projects such as power generation, renewable energy, oil and gas, and in-house banking through the Special Purpose Companies in the UK (the SPC), and provides accounting and tax services to the SPCs.

Responsibilities

• Produce accounting reports of the SPCs on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis to Head of Accounts.
• Tax work (assist in Corporate Income Tax return with tax advisors/prepare VAT return and resolve enquiries) for the SPCs.
• Advise the SPCs\\\’ controlling departments of the Company on accounting issues.
• Assist in general work (working as an agent/contact person) with notary, accounting firms, HMRC, the Companies House etc. for the SPCs.
• Monitor journal entries and works of more junior Accountancy staff.
• Other various work related to not only the SPCs’ but also the Company’s accounting/tax matters based on the instruction from Manager/GM.
• Key Responsibilities:
• The SPCs’ accounting/tax service.
• Coordinating financial audit of the SPCs.
• • Planning and controlling the schedule of financial audit.
  • Answering questions from auditors appropriately.
  • Preparing financial statements and finalization with auditors.
  • Checking and, correcting if necessary, management report to be issued by auditors.
  • Preparing some reports, if necessary, to Managers/GM/CFO.
• Analysing and/or solving problems in accounting data/business process of the SPCs.
• Managing accounts for designated business areas including monitoring, controlling and reconciling data.
• Management reporting to business areas on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Reconciling and controlling ledger balances including stock, futures and fixtures position.
• Advising the business departments on accounting matters, from the viewpoint of accounting and tax.

Skills / Knowledge

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• IT skills using Excel, Word, SAP.
• Numerical and analytical skills.
• Ability to resolve complex problems within strict time constraints.

Experience

• Extensive accounting experience. Some of which should be PQE (ie after qualifying as an accountant).
• Must have experience of analysing Trial Balance Sheet and preparing Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss, as well as consolidating accounts.

Education

• Preferably an undergraduate or equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Maths, Statistics, Business or Economics.
• Otherwise a good standard of education to at least A Level standard or equivalent, A levels should include Maths.
• Accountancy qualifications, i.e. ACCA, ACA or CIMA.

The role is based near St Paul’s in the City of London.

The salary for this position will be circa £50K – £55K + Benefits.

Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and notice period.