Accountant

Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join Excis as a Management Accountant, reporting to the CFO.

Responsibilities include:

· MANAGEMENT REPORTING:

oPrepare the monthly financial reporting packs: profit and loss accounts, Balance Sheet, variance analysis and commentary for each project.

§Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations, and ensure all the Intercompany Accounts are fully reconciled

§Management of cost expenditure by project including accruals and prepayments

§Put checks in place to identify projects that are running at negative/low margins, where income has not been billed, where income is recorded, but there is no matching cost, etc

oOther ad/hoc Reporting:

§Customer reports

§Project reports (per country or global)

oCash Flow forecast

· ANNUAL BUDGET

Prepare the annual budget for the country(ies) you are looking after. The country budget will then be consolidated into the Group Master Budget
• FINANCIAL REPORTING

o ANNUAL ACCOUNTS

§Meticulously prepare the Annual Accounts to Trial Balance for External Accountants. This includes, but is not limited to:

·Wage Reconciliations

·VAT Reconciliations

·Employee average numbers

·Operating Leases

·Posting year end Manual Journals

·Supporting items to the balance sheet:

oPrepayments

oAccruals (for countries on Accruals basis)

oFixed Asset Registrar and Depreciation Schedule

oAged Receivables & Bad Debt provision

oOther Creditors/ Long Term Creditors

oetc
• VAT Returns (monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually)

§Prepare the data by doing an internal audit check

Submit the data to the local accountant for filling, or file online directly if access if acquired.
• Payroll
• PAYMENTS

Requirements

This role would ideally suit someone with the following characteristics, knowledge and skills:
• Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures.
• Excellent accounting software, Xero, would be an advantage but not essential, and excel skills are a must.
• A determined, independent individual with good commercial sense.
• A thorough and diligent approach to work with extra attention to detail.
• A problem solver who is able to think out of the box
• Efficient, organized and eager to set the pace, maintaining high standards.
• A confident communicator with people, face to face and through written communication.
• A prompt, ready and slightly restless energy and keenness to keep things moving forward followed through to completion