Assistant Financial Accountant

We are looking for an Assistant Financial Accountant, to join this unique and exciting but extremely complex organisation based in the heart of London.

In this role, you will support the financial accounting team to maintain a robust internal controls environment, ensuring the completeness of the ledgers whilst supporting external reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, controls, and compliance, delivering to the period and year-end processes.

As an Assistant Financial Accountant, you must have a good understanding of double-entry bookkeeping, accounting adjustments and will be looking to advance and develop your accounting skills with a supportive environment.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Management of the balance sheet reconciliation process for all directorates and departments.
• Review and reconciliation of all GL accounts, ensuring all accounts are reconciled and cleared appropriately.
• Managing the fixed asset balance sheet accounts, including preparing and running of monthly depreciation.
• Uploading journals into the finance system for approval in compliance month end deadlines.
• Performing key periodic processes, including reconciliation between finance and commitments ledgers and resolution of differences.
• Managing monthly intercompany journal postings and including required reconciliations.
• Support the financial accountants in the preparation of statutory returns and compliance reporting.
• Proactive engagement with financial processing team, finance business partnering team and other departments to comply with and make improvements to month-end and year-end processes.

The successful candidate will be an assistant accountant, who is keen and committed to studying and keen to progress your career within the field of financial accounting. You will ideally be studying towards your professional qualifications; you must have experience and a good understanding of double entry bookkeeping including accounting processes such as accruals and prepayments and fixed assets.

It is imperative that you have strong IT skills are essential including advanced Excel including vlook-ups, pivot tables and data manipulation skills.You must possess first-class oral and written communication skills and being adept with communicating to senior management to explain key financial issues to non-finance staff.