Prepare monthly management accounts and annual statutory accounts for commodity trading group. Head office is in London, - trades in precious metals, base metals, and energy for physical and derivative markets.

Qualifications

• Part Qualified or equivalent accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA or CIMA)

• Good Standard of Education (University Degree or equivalent)

Main Responsibilities:

• Daily bank account reconciliation and margin account reconciliation

• Responsible for daily reconciliations for interfaces from back office systems to the General Ledger

• Prepare monthly management account and the Group consolidation reporting package

• Support the statutory year end process including liaison with external/internal auditors

• Support quarterly regulatory reporting under the UK Financial Conduct Authority rules

• Daily reconciliations for interfaces from trading systems to the General Ledger

• Ensure all payment requests and receipt advices are processed accurately and on a timely manner.

• Daily tasks of clearing accounts payable and receivable, Precious metals internal clear account.

• Maintenance of fixed asset register

• Ensure accruals and prepayments are posted and in line with the relevant service agreements.

• Balance sheet reconciliation reports (sweep accounts, accrual accounts, prepayments accounts, etc.).

• Production of monthly management report and Group consolidation package

• Inventory reconciliation

• Support inter-company balance reconciliation

• Support preparation of quarterly UK VAT and Singapore GST statements for inclusion in the returns

• Provide support to produce a number of statutory or regulatory reports and returns, these may include:

• FCA quarterly returns

• Annual Statutory Accounts - Regulatory reporting

• US Annual Survey

• BEPS reporting

• Support customer balance confirmation as necessary

SKILLS

• Advanced EXCEL (Pivot tables, VLOOKUP's, Sumifs and Formulas - Using large volumes of data on tabular format.

• UK VAT & Singapore GST

• FCA

• IFRS and UK GAAP

• SAP

• Experience of finance section within a commodity trading house.