Banking Accountant
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:
Implement the day-to-day financial control as directed by the Team Manager, with particular focus on:
Corporate accounting
· Participate in daily account keeping
· Receive, allocate, record and pay supplier invoices, expense reports and intra-Group invoices
· Prepare intra-Group invoices
· 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
· Handle the accounting treatment and monitoring of fixed assets
· Produce monthly financial statements under local and IFRS standards: timeline, closing entries, analyses of financial statements, etc.
· Produce the annual financial statements and append them to the related accounts
· Contribute to the production of the management report
· Substantiate the accounts under his/her responsibility and send them for accounting control
Tax treatments
· Assist in the preparation of annual tax returns
· Assist in the production of tax filings such as: VAT, corporation tax and other country-specific filings.
· Ensure coherence between the various accounting and tax outputs
Other Duties
· Participate in writing operational procedures and operating methods
· Ensure regulatory and accounting watch activities monitoring within scope of action, 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 that come under the scope of activity
· Prepare and collate monthly statistics (e.g. aged debtors, AuA, AuC value & movement of assets, largest clients by income) for management reporting;
· Resolve and escalate, as appropriate, any issues; and
· Contribute to ad hoc projects as required.
Job Attributes:
Job Knowledge / Technical Skills / Qualifications
· Qualified Accountant or a minimum 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.
· 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.
Personal Skills
· To be accurate and able to self-check numerical and descriptive output.
· To be a self-starter and enjoy working with and analysing numbers in detail.
· To be able to adapt to a changing finance environment and learn new accounting software applications.
· 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.
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