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Job Description
Avolon is seeking a Group Accountant to support the company's management and financial reporting requirements, identifying trends and providing commercial and transactional analysis to drive business performance.
As a Group Accountant, you will work under the direction of the Finance Manager to support the company's management and financial reporting requirements, identifying trends and providing commercial and transactional analysis to drive business performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identification of trends, forward-looking analysis, metrics and sensitivity analysis to support executive decision making
- Establish and maintain key metrics to help provide insights into business performance
- Develop financial models around Maintenance Reserve Income Recognition, Impairment & Residual Values that guide our strategic decision-making on key P&L drivers
- Preparation of month-end and quarter-end close activities including Balance Sheet reconciliations review and variance analyses while ensuring controls are in place and performed to a Sox standard
- Collaborating with the investor relations team contributing to the preparation and release of quarterly results presentations, ensuring external reporting is accurate and distributed in a timely manner
- Providing commercial and accounting advice for the structuring of debt, aircraft and lease related transactions including providing technical accounting advice and monetising the consequences of such transactions on the wider business
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders on the delivery of month-end and quarter-end close activities
- Ad-hoc work as required by the Financial Controller
The Person:
- The successful candidate should be curious and questioning
- They should build robust solutions through gathering data and obtaining feedback
- They should remain up to date with role-related technical developments
- The successful candidate will manage, prioritise, track and deliver tasks for themselves and their team
- They will also be proactive about change, striving for continuous improvement, using their outstanding communication skills to recognise alternative perspectives
- They will maximise information flow across the organisation by working across teams
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Qualified ACA / ACCA
- Exposure to U.S. GAAP and IFRS Reporting Standards is essential
- Excellent excel and modelling skills and ability to manage projects required
- Exposure to SOx compliant environments
- SUN accounting experience preferable
- Proven high level of quantitative ability
- Proven ability to problem-solve within tight deadlines
- Capable of working to tight deadlines and under own initiative
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment