Senior Accountant with ACCA or CIMA in London

Our Client is an international company with offices in the City 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 the Company provides accounting and tax services to the SPCs.

Summary Profile:

• 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.