About the role

  • Assistant Financial Accountant role at Nord Anglia Education in London. Supporting monthly financial close, reporting, and collaborating with finance teams.

Responsibilities

  • General assistance in the monthly financial close process, posting manual journals and processing intercompany transactions, including invoices, credit notes and other journals such as dividends, funding, loans and associated interest entries.
  • Maintaining intercompany reconciliations
  • Preparation of monthly bank reconciliations
  • Responsibility for ensuring balance sheet reconciliations are completed, reviewed, and signed off on a monthly basis. That any actions resulting from sign off are completed in a timely manner.
  • Assist with annual audit, including preparing statutory packs for central entities
  • Performance of, and compliance with internal controls with respect to the Group’s external reporting and continuous improvement of controls.
  • Preparation and submission of additional ad-hoc management reports and analyses.
  • Collaborate with the wider finance team and stakeholders across the different regions to ensure accurate reporting.
  • Assist and support initiatives to streamline processes and enhance efficiency Improvements in the efficiency of the monthly financial close process results in the close process being reduced significantly.

Requirements

  • Degree in finance/accounting or related discipline from a recognised tertiary institution
  • Holder of a professional accounting qualification(s)(ACA, ACCA) – Part qualified/ newly qualified
  • Strong academic performance at tertiary level in the relevant discipline
  • Accounting under IFRS
  • Maintaining ledgers of Holding companies/ Head Office
  • Experience in multi-national organisation at a Group level, candidates from Big4 or top 10 practice welcome (i.e. confident with translating foreign currencies)
  • Strong performer in previous role(s)
  • Highly analytical
  • Good Excel skills
  • Ability to “think out of the box” and create from scratch.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Financial Accountant

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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