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Job Description
Banking Accountant job description:
**Summary:** Experienced Accountant sought to implement financial control, produce management accounts, and assist with regulatory returns and financial reporting.
**Job Description:**
The ideal candidate will be responsible for implementing day-to-day financial control and assisting with the production of monthly management accounts, statistics, regulatory returns, and financial reporting.
**Key Responsibilities:**
* Participate in daily account keeping and receive, allocate, record, and pay supplier invoices, expense reports, and intra-Group invoices.
* Prepare intra-Group invoices and monitor trade accounts payable.
* Perform monthly account keeping actions relating to accrued expenses and prepaid expenses on trade accounts payable.
* Handle the accounting treatment of payroll expenses and fixed assets.
* Produce monthly financial statements under local and IFRS standards.
* Contribute to the production of the management report and substantiate accounts under responsibility.
* Assist in the preparation of annual tax returns and ensure coherence between accounting and tax outputs.
**Additional Responsibilities:**
* Participate in writing operational procedures and operating methods.
* Ensure regulatory and accounting watch activities monitoring and support the production of CBI returns.
* Prepare and/or control statements to be filed with oversight bodies.
* Calculate and communicate the amount of the reserve requirement.
* Ensure coherence between various outputs: regulatory, statutory, etc.
* Respond to enquiries from other business units.
* Prepare and collate monthly statistics for management reporting.
* Resolve and escalate issues as appropriate.
* Contribute to ad hoc projects as required.
**Requirements:**
* Qualified Accountant or a minimum of an Accounting Qualification of third-level qualification in a related field with relevant work history.
* Experience within a similar position in finance services or banking.
* Excellent Excel skills and proficiency in PowerPoint and Word.
* Excellent communication skills, both oral and written in English.
* Exposure to SAS (Statistical Analysis System), OneSumX (a regulatory reporting tool) is advantageous, but not essential.
**Personal Qualities:**
* Accurate and able to self-check numerical and descriptive output.
* Self-starter and enjoy working with and analysing numbers in detail.
* Able to adapt to a changing finance environment and learn new accounting software applications.
* Enthusiastic and motivated to learn and develop as the department evolves.
* Team player and have an interest in the development and training of others.
* Good communication skills and an ability to work on their own initiative.
* Competent at communicating in English in a business environment.