Banking Accountant

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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