Prepare monthly management accounts and annual statutory accounts for commodity trading group companies. Global operations spanning from London, to Singapore and New York office - trading in precious metals, base metals and energy for physical and derivative markets.

ACA/ACCA or CIMA - Accountancy qualifications

Good Standard of Educations (University Degree or equivalent)

SCOPE OF JOB

• Prepare monthly management account and the Group consolidation reporting package

• Prepare and manage the statutory year end process including liaison with external/internal auditors

• Quarterly regulatory reporting under the UK Financial Conduct Authority rules

• Daily bank account reconciliation and margin account reconciliation

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

• Prepare the analytical commentary and analysis on the monthly balance sheet and P&L changes

• 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.

• Provide advice and support to Business as required

• Support analysis on monthly BS/PL results and investigation against Front expectation, as necessary

• Perform month-end reconciliation include: fixed asset, inventory, prepayments and accruals.

• Prepare balance sheet reconciliation reports (margin reconciliation, sweep accounts, derivative netting etc.).

• Production of monthly management report and Group consolidation package

• Inter-company balance reconciliation

• Review and maintenance of balance sheet open items

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

Skills

• Advanced excel skills (pivot tables, v look-ups, sumifs and formulas): comfortable with working with large volume of data

  • Sound level of basic bookkeeping skills

  • Excellent organisational & analytical skills

  • Good communication skills (written and verbal)