Assistant Accountant
The company requires a permanent Assistant Accountant to carry out accounting and related tasks for the freight trading business.
Whilst continuous training will be provided, the candidate should be a motivated self-starter who is keen to get involved and is able to work without close supervision. The successful candidate will be technically able and highly personable with a strong desire to achieve the highest standards. The role requires close collaboration with both other team members and colleagues in overseas offices to ensure that queries are efficiently resolved and reporting deadlines are met.
The role is within a highly flexible team, able to adapt quickly to the changing demands of the business and constantly striving to provide more accurate, consistent and timely information to senior management, so flexibility and willingness to undertake new challenges are essential personal characteristics.
As this is a training role, the candidate should be studying or be keen to begin studying a recognised accounting qualification.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The list below is an indication of how the role may develop and is by no means exhaustive.
Initially the early points will be the main focus, expanding with experience.
- Intercompany Reconciliations – reconciling and agreeing the intercompany balances
- Intercompany balance sheet transfers
- Intercompany settlements
- Account matching – invoices and cash payments/receipts
- Analysing entries in the trading system, liaising with front office staff to rectify any that are non-compliant
- Provide a monthly commentary on trading system vs SAP intercompany reconciling differences
- Analysing debtors and creditors (to include ageing analysis)
- Investigate trading system vs SAP differences ensuring they are resolved before the following close
- Liaise with Auditors on both management and statutory audits
- Ad-hoc tasks as required
KEY SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- The successful candidate will have a degree (2:1 or above)
- Early stages of CIMA, ACA or ACCA or keen to begin their professional qualification
- Strong IT skills a necessity - in particular Excel
- Strong interpersonal skills
- A methodical approach coupled with the ability to evaluate and interpret data from a variety of sources is essential
***Oil Recruitment has been working with some of the world’s leading banks, trading companies, major oil companies and utilities within the energy trading arena since 1998. We work on roles in trading, broking, risk, credit, quantitative analysis, consultancy, shipping, chartering, operations and contract analysis across the upstream and downstream energy markets in crude, oil products, gas, power and carbon.
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