Assistant Accountant - Mandarin Speaking

Do you have advanced written and oral mandarin skills?

Are you looking to build a successful career within accounting in the financial services industry in London?

We are partnered with a leading futures and options broker with years of experience delivering expert and high-quality services to a diverse range of clients.

They are going through an exciting growth phase, which has created the need for an assistant accountant within the team. The finance team currently sits at 7 and the role has opened as the last person in this role, also placed by Robert Half, is being promoted

Role: Assistant Accountant - Mandarin Speaking

Hybrid: 3 days in office. It will be 4-5 days during the first months of training.

The key responsibility of this role are:

• Daily treasury cash management, including payment, daily cash forecast and projection, analysis and reconciliation, etc;
• Daily liquidity monitoring and calculations in line with internal policy and regulatory requirements;
• Assist with daily product control, including PnL, balance sheet and trading positions etc;
• Client money reconciliations
• CCP and broker account analysis and control
• Routine monthly tasks that allocated
• Purchase and expense ledger control
• Ad hoc tasks in Finance team

The requirements for the ideal candidate are:

• 0-18 months accounting experience
• Relevant degree from a university
• Complete fluency in oral and written English, and Chinese language will be an advantage.
• Organised, self-motivated with the ability to work accurately, efficiently and be able to prioritise under time pressure
• Attention to detail and process with the ability to prioritise and stay focussed in a dynamic, time pressured environment
• Comfortable with working to deadlines
• Use of own initiative during problem solving and resolution, supported by other members of the Finance department
• IT literate (good Microsoft office skills including strong Excel skills)
• Ability to communicate effectively (written and spoken). Internally and externally
• Team player

Salary: £DOE + additional benefits:

• Pension: 10% of annual base salary (standard 3 months postpone applied)
• Holidays: 27 days + bank holidays
• Bonus: Discretionary
• Life insurance: 4 times of annual salary, subject to the insurer's approval.
• Income protection insurance: 75% of annual salary
• Other benefit in kind:
  • Medical insurance (covers individual / family) ;
  • Dental insurance (covers individual / family);
  • Gym membership with Fitness First (individual)
• Season ticket loan

Unfortunately they cannot offer VISA sponsorship now, or in the future for this role.

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