Regional Accountant
- Recruiter
- Investigo Limited
- Location
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England, London, City of London
London (Central)London (Greater)
- Salary
- £55000.00 - £60000.00 per annum
- Posted
- 23 Apr 2019
- Closes
- 25 Apr 2019
- Ref
- BBBH85962
- Job Title
- Accountant
- Category
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Investigo are currently partnered with a rapidly growing tech business who are looking to hire a London based Senior Financial Accountant to focus on one of their emerging regions.
Duties;
- Work with regional and local finance teams to manage financial tasks of the business including:
- Month-end closing
- Accounts receivable/working capital management
- Accounts payable management
- Cashflow forecast
- Working with local tax advisors to meet taxation compliance deadline
- Banking payments
- Ad hoc queries
- Have experience in running month-end closing independently is critical and working with various accounting software is advantageous. Willingness to learn new ERP accounting software is a must.
- Ability to travel to our markets in Africa to perform detailed process walk-throughs then establish core finance tasks.
- Review and follow-up of local reconciliations and accounting entries to provide assurance of consistency and accuracy with Accounting Policy.
- Working with external audits to complete Statutory audits to deliver an efficient and proactive audit sign-off.
- Collaborating with Headquarters and Regional teams to drive the review and standardisation of internal processes, procedures and controls so as to meet the demands of a fast-growing business.
- Ability to execute with accuracy and timeliness of financial control processes.
- Coordinating and running several projects (including implementation of new accounting software).
- Ability to follow-up with external advisors and ensure meeting compliance taxation and regulatory deadline including ensure we recognize accurately taxation expense and tax accounting treatment.
Key requirements
- Qualified accountant with relevant expeirence
- Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical. Must be hands on and capable of multi-tasking in a fast-moving environment.
- A self-starter, very organised and exceptional follow-up skills.
- Independent, structured and able to self-assess and self-problem solve.
- Experience from evaluating and mitigating financial and operational risks and implementing internal controls.
- Demonstrated analytical ability with the competence to communicate analytical and financial results/issues to various level stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to build a strong relationship with internal, external, local, regional and global stakeholders.
- Knowledge and experience within accounting and experience from performing month-end/year-end closing is a must.
- Willingness to travel to markets within Africa/Latin America.