Job Description

Graduate Accounting Assistant
Location: London
Employment Type: Full-time
PCD280022

Skills and Experience
• The ideal candidate has experience of revenue accounting or product control and should be able to demonstrate.
• A strong academic background and good career progression to date.
• Have excellent organisational skills and to ensure the team meets its objectives and deadlines.
• A control mentality coupled with excellent accounting, analytical and reporting skills.
• Possess a pro-active attitude with an ability to take responsibility, make decisions and gain respect quickly.
• Process analysis skills to identify vulnerabilities and control/system weaknesses.
• Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with professionals throughout the organisation.
• Ability to evaluate issues and situations and make decisions with little need for upward.
• Maturity and credibility to deal with brokers, senior management and colleagues at all levels and locations. Professionalism, sensitivity and high energy levels.
• Flexibility and a willingness to contribute to an exciting, dynamic and multi-cultural business.
• Enterprise finance system.
• Financial analysis platform.
• Exemplary spreadsheet software, and proficient with other office productivity software.
• Enterprise reporting system.
• Highly motivated, confident self-starter who is unafraid to ask questions and seek answers.
• Good attention to detail.
• Articulates both written and spoken messages clearly and confidently.
• Able to use judgement to suggest changes and improvements to processes.
• Proactive and adaptable, able to work well under pressure.
• Some product knowledge an advantage.

Role Overview
The Accounting Assistant will spend time in different teams amongst the UK Finance department, they will learn the core principles and processes of each team to develop a strong understanding of the finance department as a whole.

Key Responsibilities
• Daily monitoring and control of global automated P&L’s and revenue reports.
• Liaising with Front Office for prompt resolution of queries relating to P&L discrepancies.
• Post and review of manual & automatically generated revenue accounting entries.
• Provide Finance with detailed analysis of entity and desk P&L variances.
• Daily and Monthly Positions monitoring.
• Daily/Monthly accruals of all fees payable and all revenue not automatically booked.
• Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts (clearing, fee, Pending & fails).
• Participate in monthly PL call to provide variance analyses on Fees.
• Provide ad hoc global revenue reports to senior management and other departments.
• Assist external auditors for the statutory audit.
• Ad hoc project work.