This is a great opportunity for an Assistant Accountant/Bookkeeper with 5 years of experience in a professional services environment working for Family Office. The position will offer outstanding opportunities to learn, grow and get involved.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitoring incoming and outgoing payments, cards & account balance
- Prepare and process electronic transfers and payments (high volume and high value)
- Process and reconcile credit card statements & Reconcile bank statements
- Ensure all cards & bank accounts are fully functional & fully funded at all the times.
- Enter and upload invoices into Quickbooks
- Flag and clarify any unusual or questionable invoice items
- Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues
- Respond to enquiries
- Process expense forms
- P&L review
- Accrual & Pre-Payment
- Month End Management Reporting
- Final Account Preparation up to trial balance.
- Working across multiple accounts (90% in GBP)
- Process and reconcile credit card statements
- Post adhoc transactions to journals, ledgers and other records
- Assist the Accountants with month end reporting
- Provide supporting documentation for audits
- General administration
Core Competencies:
- Banking and payments related activities.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a finance function (ideally some experience of working in a Family Office environment)
- Experience with the use of a modern ERP Accounting software (e.g. Quickbooks, Xero, SAP, Sage 50)
- Strong Excel skills (e.g., lookups, pivot tables, SUMIFs)
- Highly motivated, confident and enthusiastic individual who will be able to deal effectively with conflicting requirements
- Demonstrates the ability to be a good team player and technically sound.
- A willingness to learn and develop
- Ability to work under pressure, deal with deadlines and work flexibly (e.g. longer hours during busy periods)
- Effective communication skills – both written and verbal
- Excellent attention to detail and a high level of numeracy
- Professional and well-presented
- Accounting qualification – PART QUALIFIED ACCA, ACA
- The Russian Language is a big bonus
