Assistant Accountant, European Private Equity
Assistant Accountant, European Private Equity
This role comes with study support and hybrid working
My client are a leading European Private Equity firm and buyout investor, focused on portfolio companies in Europe with more than €5 billion of assets under management.
Responsibilities
- Assist in production of monthly management accounts - inputting invoices into accounting system, preparing and posting various nominal ledger entries, bank reconciliation
- Review costs for variances to budget
- Reviewing management accounts for subsidary offices
- Prepare and post the monthly prepayments and accruals
- Accounts payable - organising approval and payment of weekly invoices (suppliers, credit card, expenses, travel invoices)
- Manage monthly payroll cycle, submitting documents to payroll company, pension contributions submission
- Assist finance team with cash management and cash requirement projections
- Review employee expenses
- Assist in completion of the monthly dashboard
- Assist in preparation of the annual budget and reforecast
- Complete quarterly VAT returns
- Manage out of pocket expenses to be recharged back to portfolio companies
- Assist external auditors with the preparation of statutory accounts at year end
- Assistance with preparation of board packs
Experience and Qualifications required
- Part qualified ACCA/CIMA/CPA/AAT
- 1-2 years accounting experience
- Systems & IT competence
- Experience using Sage
- Good Excel skills
Personal skills
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team
- Good organisation skills and ability to meet deadlines at key times in the financial year
- Good attention to detail
- A desire to learn and take ownership of workload and projects
- Ability to multitask
- Ability to work with personnel at various levels of seniority both internal and external to the organisation
Reference: 52354642
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