Working as a Finance Assistant for a large FX Financial Services firm in London.
Client Details
Specialist firm in commercial Foreign Exchange. Offering a range of FX services aimed at corporate and institutional clients to manage foreign exchange exposure and international payments.
Description
Financial Reporting and Control
- Assist to prepare monthly management accounts;
- Assist to ensure the management accounts are compliant with country/regional regulations;
- Assist to Finance team to agree inter-company reconciliations;
- Attend a month end meeting and discuss any issues with the monthly management accounts or reconciliations and work with the team to resolve any queries and agree how to close;
- Assist with prepayments and loans;
- Assist to prepare local payroll in line and final payment;
- Assist to prepare monthly reports for the local teams and ad hoc reports as and when required;
- Assist to prepare year end statutory accounts;
- Assist to prepare information for internal and external audits.
Tax and Compliance
- Assist to prepare tax returns;
- Assist to complete reconciliation of tax information;
- Assist to ensure tax is processed in line with regional requirement;
- Assist to ensure manuals and procedures are kept up to date with any change in regional requirements or regulations;
- Assist clear controls in place and followed to reduce errors.
Strategic Planning and Financial Planning & Analysis
- Assist to maintain controls to minimise risks;
- Assist to prepare variance analysis of financial reports as requested.
Budgeting and Forecasting
- Assist to prepare any information required to support with forecasting and budgets.
General
- Assist Project work;
- Other tasks as and when required to support the Finance team;
- Maintain up to date knowledge and identify learning opportunities.
Profile
- Educated to Graduate-level or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience;
- Accounting knowledge;
- Ability to learn new tasks and procedures quickly;
- Good demonstrable knowledge of UK financial Regulations etc.;
- Ability to analyse complicated data;
- Exceptional attention to detail;
- Good command in Microsoft Office (Work, Excel, PowerPoint);
- High standard of oral & written English is mandatory;
- Fluency in other European languages is desirable.
- Ideally from Financial Services
Job Offer
- Competitive salary;
- Attractive benefits package including gym access, private health insurance and pension plan;
- Potential to be sponsored for Accounting Qualification
- Participation in the Discretionary Bonus Scheme;
- 24 days´ annual holiday (+bank holidays);
- A great and very international working environment;
- Excellent and genuine career progression.