Korean speaking Finance & Accounting Coordinator in London

K-People Europe is a recruitment consultancy specialised in Korean speaking jobs with a dedicated Korean recruitment consultant working in London since 2007. Our client, an industry leading global company, is looking for a Korean speaking Finance & Accounting Coordinator who will be responsible for supporting the centralised management of European IT costs across multiple entities, including cost allocation, recharge preparation, variance analysis, entity communication, ERP approval coordination, forecasting support, internal and external contract administration, vendor governance, and handoff to Finance for downstream AR/AP processing. This role acts as a key coordination point between IT, Finance, subsidiaries and external vendors to ensure that centrally managed IT costs are accurately structured, allocated, communicated, approved and transferred for financial processing. The role also supports half-year recharge cycles, annual planning, contract review and negotiation, vendor administration, reporting and operational coordination for the IT function.

Key Responsibilities

• IT Cost Allocation, Chargeback and Reporting
  • Identify and consolidate IT service and solution requirements from subsidiaries and supported entities.
  • Maintain cost drivers and allocation data including service scope, user counts, covered entities, pricing assumptions and allocation rules by solution.
  • Prepare and calculate half-year recharge amounts for the June and December chargeback cycles, supported by complete and accurate backup data.
  • Enter entity-level recharge amounts, local currencies, approval lines and supporting details into ERP workflows accurately and on time.
  • Hand over completed and approved recharge data to Finance AR for downstream accounting and collection activities.
  • Prepare regular cost analysis and management reports by company, region, country and cost category.
  • Compare EHQ IT costs on a half-year basis against prior period actuals, business plan, and prior-year equivalent periods.
  • Produce comparative analysis in both GBP and local billing currencies such as EUR and USD.
• Forecasting, Budget Planning and Business Support
  • Analyse cost changes resulting from new solutions, renewals, licence movements, scope changes and entity expansion or reduction.
  • Support the annual budgeting and business planning cycle around October by providing entity-level IT cost projections, unit price changes and major cost assumptions.
• Internal & Vendor Contracts Coordination
  • Support the preparation of internal approval materials related to EHQ IT contracts and commercial decisions.
  • Review vendor contracts, commercial terms, pricing schedules, service scope, renewal clauses and key obligations.
• Vendor Governance and Operational Coordination
  • Maintain vendor records, contract documents, renewal calendars, service scope records, covered entities and quantity tracking.
  • Ensure changes to renewals, pricing, scope and quantities are properly reflected in recharge and cost planning activities.
  • Coordinate vendor meetings, review sessions and other vendor-related arrangements as part of ongoing vendor management.
  • Support vendor-related event arrangements where required in connection with ongoing service, relationship or commercial management.
  • Track key vendor actions, follow-up items and commercial or contractual dependencies.
• Finance Coordination and Operational Data Management
  • Prepare and maintain supporting documents for AP/AR-related processes and provide accurate data to Finance for financial processing.
  • Support invoice administration by validating supporting information against contracts, services and cost records.
  • Maintain trackers and records for recharge calculations, approvals, cost assumptions, issue logs and management reporting.
  • Ensure operational master data such as entity mapping, user counts, allocation logic, contract references and billing assumptions remains accurate and up to date.
  • Maintain audit-ready supporting records for internal review, Finance processing and management reporting.

Requirements

• Must be fluent in both Korean & English
• Must have minimum 3 years’ relevant work experience in finance & accounting
• Experience in cost coordination, finance coordination, contract administration, vendor management or a similar hybrid role preferred
• Good understanding of cost allocation, recharge or chargeback processes, variance analysis, invoicing support, approval workflows and financial record coordination.
• Experience reviewing contracts, coordinating commercial negotiations and contract review processes.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with ERP (preferably SAP) and finance systems.
• Strong analytical capability, including the ability to compare actuals against budget, forecast and prior-year figures and explain significant movements clearly.

Conditions

• Job location: London
• Hybrid: 3 days in the office & 2 days working from home
• Job type: full-time & 12 month contract (renewing up to 4 years and becoming permanent)
• Hours of work: 37.5 hour per week (some overtime work may be required for emergencies and projects)
• Annual basic salary: 40~48K (depending on experience)
• Performance based bonus, Pension, Income Protection, Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Life Assurance, etc.
• Annual leave: 33 (25 holidays + 8 bank holidays)

Before you apply

• Korean language skill is essential
• The right candidate must be eligible to work full-time in UK immediately without any visa restriction. If you’re on any visa permitting full-time work in UK, please indicate your visa status in your CV and when it expires.
• Please send your CV in MS Word format
• ONLY right candidates will be contacted, and if your application is successful, we’ll contact you within 5 working days.