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Job Description
Overall Objective:
To implement the day-to-day financial control and assist with the production of monthly management accounts, statistics, regulatory returns and financial reporting.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Closure of financial statements
- Ensures that management results are in line with accounting results and report in case of anomalies or inconsistencies in data
- Forwards any management information necessary for the preparation of the company and/or consolidated financial statements
- Calculates, analyses and posts accrued income on a monthly basis in consultation with the client invoicing teams and prepares intra-Group invoicing
- Collects and studies fee schedule agreed and commercial contracts
- Calculate accruals by client and business line
- Work with Client Relationship Manager on delayed payments for aged debtors
- Prepare Provision Committees reports on aged debtors
- In particular, for the local part:
- Participates in the development, according to standards, of budgets and estimates by establishing forecasts of income and/or expenses. Collection and control of information from the departments, projections, and review of assumptions and calculations (locally)
Overall Objective:
To implement the day-to-day financial control and assist with the production of monthly management accounts, statistics, regulatory returns and financial reporting.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Closure of financial statements
- Ensures that management results are in line with accounting results and report in case of anomalies or inconsistencies in data
- Forwards any management information necessary for the preparation of the company and/or consolidated financial statements
- Calculates, analyses and posts accrued income on a monthly basis in consultation with the client invoicing teams and prepares intra-Group invoicing
- Management of client invoices
- Collects and studies fee schedule agreed and commercial contracts
- Calculate accruals by client and business line
- Work with Client Relationship Manager on delayed payments for aged debtors
- Prepare Provision Committees reports on aged debtors
- Preparation of budgets, estimates, and periodic reports
In particular, for the local part:
- Participates in the development, according to standards, of budgets and estimates by establishing forecasts of income and/or expenses. Collection and control of information from the departments, projections, and review of assumptions and calculations (locally)
- Analyses revenues by client and by major type of activity (in relation to the indicators, where applicable) to understand deviations from forecasts
- Analyses expenses in view the associated indicators (FTE, person-days etc.)
- Collects information from the units (invoicing, accounting, commercial department)
In particular:
- Collects and verifies information from the entities
- Ensures cohesion with information received from cross-functional units
- Analyses changes in the main income items of the entities that he/she monitors
- Collects information from local management control or cross-functional departments to explain changes or assumptions during budget/estimate processes
- Prepares tax statements for VAT & corporate taxes
- Prepare and/or control statements + track enquiries to be filed with oversight bodies
- Calculate and communicate the amount of the reserve requirement.
- Ensure coherence between various outputs: regulatory, statutory, etc.
- Participate in writing operational procedures and operating methods
- Contribute to the optimisation of the regulatory report production process
- Respond to enquiries from other units that come under the scope of activity
Job Attributes:
Job Knowledge / Technical Skills / Qualifications
- Minimum qualification in an Accounting (ACCA,ACA, CIMA)
- Experience within a similar position ideal, at least 3 years
- Experience or an interest in the development and training of more junior employees
- Must have excellent Excel skills and to be proficient in PowerPoint and Word.
- Must have excellent communication skills, both oral and written English.
- Exposure to SAS (Statistical Analysis System), OneSumX (a regulatory reporting tool) is advantageous, but not essential.
- To be accurate and able to self-check numerical and descriptive output.
- To be able to adapt and learn new accounting software applications and be comfortable working in an evolving financial environment.
- To be a self-starter and enjoy working with and analysing numbers in detail.
- To be enthusiastic and motivated to learn and develop as the department evolves.
- To be a 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 are essential.
- To be able to work effectively and be competent at communicating in English in a business environment.