Ref: AJ46673

Accounting Senior Specialist

Sector Accounting/Treasury/Audit
Type Full-time, Permanent
Location London
Salary (Annual) £ ~ 38,000 / Year
A Japanese trading company is currently recruiting an Accounting Senior Specialist to work in their London office.
In this role, you will be responsible for providing daily accounting entries, preparing monthly consolidated financial statements, analysing financial performance, supporting tax declaration work, and ensuring compliance with J-SOX requirements.
The ideal candidate should have knowledge in accounting, strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in Excel and MS Office.
AJ46673

TYPE: Full-time, permanent or contract
WORKING HOURS: 09:00 - 17:00
SALARY: up to £38k depending on experience +bonus
START: ASAP
LOCATION: London

Accounting Senior Specialist Main Responsibilities:
● Cover accounting related work for group companies, group consolidation, tax, and some internal control especially under J-SOX
● Provide daily accounting booking entries through checking the appropriateness of each transaction and evidence, like checking accounts receivable, payments, personal expenses, and any other expenses/incomes
● Work with colleagues to make monthly consolidated financial statements and to analyse financial performance through comparing with budget, forecast, and previous figures or communicating with business group or group companies
● Support managers and colleagues for any kind of tax declaration work or correspondence to requests from headquarter in terms of relationship with the above consolidation work
● Ensure J-SOX requirement and internal control management such as accounting booking procedure, double-checking process in preparation of financial statements or reports, and so on
● Assist the other managers, tax, standalone, in same department for statutory purpose, group reporting, group management purposes
● Prepare journal entries properly for delegated areas and/or amounts
● Support the day-to-day running of the accounting functions and ad hoc requirements
● Check journal entries that are parked by other than Accounting Department
● Check accounts receivable and payments
● Support to check personal expenses for example ensuring correct evidence is provided

Accounting Senior Specialist Ideal Candidate:
● Knowledge and experience in accounting work (e.g., AAT)
● Knowledge of accounting treatments (UK GAAP and IFRS)
● Strong Excel skills
● Proficient in MS Office
● Ability to work with high accuracy and meet tight deadlines
● SAP (S/4 HANA) experience
● Open mindset to use any kind of accounting system
● Business level fluency in English

** All applicants for the Accounting Senior Specialist must have the right to work in the country as the Company is not able to offer visa support.
*We regret that we cannot accept applications from Working holiday visa, Graduate or Student visa holders.
Updated: 1 day ago
Ref: AJ46673