SENIOR ACCOUNTANT - WEALTH MANAGEMENT
£60,000 - £70,000 + Bonus + Benefits
Central London

THE COMPANY

They are one of Europe' leading independent investment groups and managing and advising on over £40bn of investment funds and assets. They have over 500 employees across the globe. They have an opening within their finance team based in London in a small team, part of which the position manages. This is an excellent role within a collegiate, friendly and professional team within finance which also reflects the culture of the business as a whole.

WHATS IN IT FOR YOU

  • Opportunity to partner with business heads and management;
  • Opportunity to demonstrate your gravitas and work with the Board;
  • Use your commercial skills in analysis and advising the business;
  • Use of your financial accounting and control skills;
  • Use of your supervisory and staff management skills;
  • Working in a collegiate and stable , friendly environment;
  • Will be encouraged to grow and develop

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

  • ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified with financial services industry experience and 2-3 years PQE and potential to grow.
  • Good numerical skills and accuracy ,
  • Advanced Excel skills including Pivot Tables and V Lookup (financial modelling skills and advantage),
  • Experience of accounting packages
  • Strong financial accounting skills
  • Eye for detail
  • Gravitas and excellent communication skills to work with the Board and also Business Heads
  • Personality-wise are quite strong, good at delivering and confident and concise.

THE ROLE
Reporting to the Head of Finance, the role is responsible for the UK HNW Wealth Management biusiness and the operating entity of the UK business. Responsibilities will include:

  • Preparation of financiual statements
  • Preparation and submission of vat and corporation tax returns for individual companies and submit information for the UK Group returns
  • Conversion of annual accounts and together with corporation tax returns and computations submit this date to HMR&C Gateway
  • Preparation and submission of FCA regulatory individual company returns
  • Work with department heads to assist with the preparation of budgets and forecasts
  • Preparation of board papers and attendance and presentation at board meetings
  • Responsible for raising invoices and supervision of the AP team regarding the collection and posting of cash receipts
  • Ad hoc tasks as required, including client analysis, billing reviews, report generation
  • Ad hoc support to Head of Departments such as sensitivity analysis, revenue analysis, budgets, forecasts and the general provision of financial information as required
  • To analyse data using excel, power pivots, power BI queries or Atlas AX queries.
  • Generate debtor analysis and billing analysis reports by relationship manager
  • Provision of on the job training and support to accounts payable team members and other accountants within the team
  • Review of Purchase invoices and Bank entries on AX, accounting software
  • Review of the journals posted by the AP team on the entities that you are responsible for
  • Dealing with supplier queries in absence of the accounts payable team members
  • To work closely with the other Senior Accountant in the team and the Head of Finance Operations to provide support and assistance to other entities within the UK or the Group as required
  • To work with the other Senior Accountant to develop, understand and monitor the partial VAT methodology for the UK VAT Group and the new VAT reporting process built in AX