Accounting Senior Specialist Ref: AJ46029
A Japanese trading company is currently recruiting for a Fixed-Term (12-14 months) Accounting Senior Specialist in London.
In this role you will be responsible for providing daily accounting entries, preparing monthly consolidated financial statements, analysing financial performance, supporting tax declaration work, ensuring compliance with J-SOX requirements.The role also involves assisting managers with various reporting tasks and supporting daily accounting functions and ad hoc tasks.
Ideal candidate for this role should have good understanding of J-SOX.
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Eligible applicants:
- (O) Eligible visa: Permanent residence, Spouse, Partner
- (X) NOT eligible: Student visa, Requiring visa sponsorship
Work type: Hybrid working available
Visa support: No
BENEFITS: Discretionary annual performance related bonus, medical insurance, dental insurance, company pension, generous annual health check-up scheme. Overtime payable as per the requirements of the role
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TYPE: Fixed term (12-14 months), full-time
WORKING HOURS: 7 hours per day between 09.00 to 17.00 Monday to Friday with one hour for lunch
SALARY: £35-40K depending on experience
START: ASAP
LOCATION: City of London (This is an office-based role with the potential for hybrid working (2 days working from home) after successful completion of probationary period
Accounting Senior Specialist Main Responsibilities:
- Work for Consolidation team in Accounting Department that covers accounting related work for group companies, group consolidation, tax, and some internal control especially under J-SOX
- For accounting related work for group companies, providing daily accounting booking entries through checking the appropriateness of each transaction and evidence, like checking accounts receivable, payments, personal expenses, and any other expenses/incomes
- For group consolidation, work with colleagues to make monthly consolidated financial statements and to analyse financial performance through comparing with budget, forecast, and previous figures or communicating with business group or group companies
- For tax, support managers and colleagues for any kind of tax declaration work or correspondence to requests from headquarter in terms of relationship with the above consolidation work
- Ensuring J-SOX requirement and internal control management such as accounting booking procedure, double-checking process in preparation of financial statements or reports
- Assisting the other managers, tax, standalone, in same department for statutory purpose, group reporting, group management purposes
- Preparing journal entries properly for delegated areas and/or amounts
- Supporting the day-to-day running of the accounting functions and ad hoc requirements
Accounting Senior Specialist Manager Ideal Candidate:
- Adequate knowledge and experience in accounting work, for example, AAT
- Demonstrable knowledge of accounting treatments (UK GAAP and IFRS)
- SAP (S/4 HANA) experience - advantageous
- Open mindset to use any kind of accounting system
- Strong Excel skills
- Proficient in the use of MS Office
- Ability to work with a high level of accuracy and meet tight deadlines whilst managing conflicting priorities
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- Taking responsibility for solving problems
- Proactive and can-do approach
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Accurate and proven numerical skills
- Ability to work in a cross-cultural environment
** All applicants for the Accounting Senior Specialist must have the right to work in the UK as the Company is not able to offer visa support.
If your application is successful, you will be contacted within two business days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs.