Job Description

We are looking for someone who is used to working as part of a team, has strong technical accounting knowledge (including the preparation of consolidated financial statements for large Groups) and enjoys communicating with a wide range of different teams and people.

Annual projects:

• Preparing our Singapore Group accounts at year end. This will involve managing and liaising with a number of key stakeholders (tax, treasury, financial Centre of excellence) to ensure results are delivered on time and accurately.
• Being a key point of contact for the Group’s external auditors, which involves collating requests and organizing our internal responses to these.
• Preparing our UK statutory accounts including drafting key communication to the UK Directors regarding these accounts.
• Input into the yearend finance Audit Committee papers.
• Supporting the signing process involving liaising with UK and local Directors, external auditors, and global finance teams to ensure these are signed efficiently and on time.
• Assisting with annual reporting to banks, including working with our treasury team to complete this.

Monthly tasks:

• Calculating and posting statutory monthly adjustments for the Group.
• Reviewing statutory tasks performed by other members of the team
• Preparing the monthly Statutory Board Pack which is distributed to the CFO and the executive team.
• Preparing the Group Cash Flow and assessing these movements.
• Oversight of the guarantee provision process from concept to ensuring consistency of application across the Group.

Other tasks:

• Contribute to accounting, system and compliance finance projects as required.
• Update and advice on internal accounting policies.
• Provision of technical accounting advise to finance teams across the Group.

Benefits

• 27 days holiday plus eight statutory bank holidays
• Pension scheme
• Performance related bonus
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Sport Centre
• Free on-site parking
• Fee tea and coffee and daily meals in on-campus café

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

You will be a qualified accountant with statutory experience ideally from a practice background, with strong technical accounting knowledge and experience in dealing with large consolidations.

• Strong organization skills and thorough attention to detail
• Ability to priorities effectively and manage a number of concurrent deadlines
• Proactive and able to quickly grasp new issues with a mindset to drive change and improvements
• Excellent communication skills and used to communicating financial information to a range of audiences
• Experience of working in an international Group environment
• Experience with our financial systems – S4 HANA and OneStream
• Awareness of corporate tax issues