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DESCRIPTION
We’re in search of a Senior Monetary Analyst to affix our Accounting organisation and turn into a significant contributor to our Accounting staff. As key member of the UK and World Accounting staff, this particular person will likely be based mostly in London. A profitable candidate on this place could have demonstrable expertise with monetary reporting and inner management associated tasks.
The function has duty for the controllership and accounting operate in help of the UK operations. The accounting flows are operated in a number of authorized entities with involvement of a variety of stakeholders in numerous places.
Along with the accounting and reporting tasks, the person will drive cross-border tasks and develop finest follow in processes and controllership on a global degree. They may also drive implementation of insurance policies with the monetary management staff based mostly out of worldwide Amazon places.
Candidates for this place could have held supervisory or administration positions in firms with lower than one billion in annual revenues, could have labored for an enormous 4 public accounting agency on the supervisor degree with Fortune 500 shoppers or equal, or have labored in a big public firm as a supervisor. Candidates will likely be anticipated to exhibit they had been prime performers at their degree.
Scope / key tasks:
Supporting the World Accounting operate, this place has a mixture of operational and venture based mostly new enterprise accounting tasks together with however not restricted to:
Ø Representing the Accounting staff
Ø Preparation of varied deliverables to help each inner and exterior monetary reporting wants, together with analytic commentary and the preparation of supplementary monetary evaluation for administration and different stakeholders.
Ø Main monetary assertion evaluations
Ø Preparation and evaluate of month-to-month steadiness sheet account reconciliations.
Ø Direct duty for enhancing accounting processes and controls for an organization with a excessive quantity of transactions.
Ø Main sure month finish shut actions, making certain that related deadlines are met and searching for methods to constantly enhance this course of.
Ø Actively collaborating in cross useful venture launches from scoping by means of to testing and launch.
Ø Duty for actively partaking with a wide range of Stakeholders inside the enterprise, together with know-how and administrative staff on enterprise integration tasks.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Ø BA/BS required
Ø ACCA, ACA, and CIMA or related credentials
Ø Related accounting expertise (public accounting /trade combine most well-liked)
Ø Publicity to operational accounting ideas of stock, procurement, payables, receivables, and income
Ø Demonstrated skill collaborating in milestone pushed tasks
Ø A powerful want to exceed expectations
Ø Robust interpersonal, written and oral communication expertise
Ø Stable organizational, venture administration expertise, and knowledge know-how aptitude
The best candidates will likely be skilled, gifted finance or accounting professionals who’re passionate and enthusiastic about accounting and reporting and have expertise with the small print of a month-to-month shut cycle, periodic monetary reporting and associated analytical evaluation.
Traits we’re searching for in a candidate are a robust want to exceed expectations, efficient interpersonal expertise; together with persuasive written and oral communication, strong organizational expertise, skill to evaluate and handle danger, and willingness to get into the small print while additionally seeing and understanding the massive image.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Ø Labored in a quick paced firm much like a high-tech start-up
Ø Robust interpersonal written and oral communication expertise
Ø Is of course a really organizational particular person
Ø Has an inherent ability for data know-how
Ø Wonderful analytical expertise
Ø Publicity to researching accounting conclusions, documenting help for conclusions reached