This position is responsible for several critical functions, in additional to supporting the Financial Reporting team with ad hoc tasks: Financial accounting & reporting
- Assist with the Group consolidation, including cash flow statement, IFRS 16 and Share Based payments
- Management of outsourced providers of financial information for inclusion into the consolidated financial statements
- Preparation and assistance with the audit of the year end and interim Group financial statements and related shareholder materials
- Preparation UK and overseas subsidiary financial statements
- Working on relevant Accrual and Prepayments accounting and posting journals into month end close
- Working knowledge of Credit Card statements and reconciliation including employee reimbursement processing Vendor Operations reporting
- Communicating with relevant suppliers to process invoicing or payment queries
- Posting invoices and credit notes and ensuring theyre coded correctly in the system
- Preparing and processing supplier payments
- Ensuring that all accounts payable activities comply with relevant financial policies and procedures
- Perform day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, and recording accounts payable data
- Reconcile the accounts payable ledger to ensure that all bills and payments are accounted for and properly posted.
- Generate reports detailing accounts payables status
- Manage inter-group recharges, Recharges to Funds, Cash Settlements and allocations
Internal - General Use
- Manage T&E claim process and ensure claims submitted inline
- Supporting and delivery of external audit engagements
- Building and maintaining strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Presenting monthly dashboards to Senior management and strive to reduce the aged invoices, settlements Fund recharges etc.
Balance sheet substantiation
- Review and develop efficiencies in close processes
- Develop and improve controls throughout the reconciliation process to reduce risk of error by highlighting data that has failed to reconcile and develop a resolution path
- Management of reconciliation process of all significant balance sheet items around Accruals, Prepayments, Credit Card Payables & Employee receivables
- Implement enhanced high-level views of the close process, through auditable workflows from accounting system to spreadsheet management
Annual Performance Expectations
- Contribution to the finance transformation programme
Key Requirements/ Qualifications
- Qualified Accountant (QBE)
- PQE in either/and: Financial Reporting, IFRS financial statement preparation, Financial Regulatory Reporting
- Experience in organisations: Asset Managers, PE & Venture Capital. Financial Services, Tier I Consulting/Professional Services firms