Management Accountant

We are a small but fast-growing Chartered Accountancy practice based in London and are currently recruiting a Qualified Accountant to support our back-office in Lahore.

Virtual book-keeping solutions is one of the services provided by A&A and this role is created to support this function.

You will be operating from one of our offices in Lahore and will be responsible for complete book-keeping for some of our clients.

This is a very independent role and would suit someone with comprehensive knowledge and experience of accounting systems, their implementation and management.

You would ideally be a CA qualified with minimum of 4 years of practice experience or ACCA/CIMA qualified with 5 years of industry experience at management level.

Working for our clients, your role will be responsible for but not limited to the following:

Accounts Receivable & Payable:

• Matching, coding and processing of purchase/sales invoices
• Ensuring debtor balances are kept within target and customer accounts are periodically reconciled
• Ensuring AR balances are reconciled to control accounts
• Resolving customer/supplier queries and ensuring controls/processes are in place to minimise such queries
• Dealing with staff expenses and ensuring company policy is being adhered
• Suppliers' statements reconciliations
• BACS payment processing
• Distributing remittance advices
• Ensuring all banks including credit cards are reconciled daily
• Ensuring bank balances are reconciled to control accounts

Reporting:

• Producing daily and weekly reporting (by working day 1)
• Preparing monthly management accounts (by working day 5)
• Preparing and leading the monthly review on balance sheet

System Implementations, Compliance & Training:

• Hands-on experience to implement accounting systems
• Training junior colleagues, as and when required
• Assisting London based accountants in preparation and filing of external reporting (HMRC, Companies House etc
• Assisting London based accountants in preparation of all files and information needed for compliance audits
• Identifying opportunities to improve the quality and efficiency of the financial reporting process, internal controls, and policies & procedures and ad-hoc projects as appropriate

The Successful Applicant:

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA with minimum of 4/5 years' experience
• Able to provide end-to-end-support to client without assistance from London based accountants
• Demonstrable experience of implementation of accounting systems
• Demonstrable experience of financial and management accounting and controls
• Excellent IT skills including advanced excel skills
• Strong organisational skills, accurate with a high level of attention to detail
• Demonstrable experience of self-management
• Ability to manage out workload and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop positive relationships
• A confident communicator
• Results oriented with a 'can do' attitude

Working hours & Holidays:

• 9am to 5pm British Standard Time
• All Pakistan and UK public holidays
• Whilst we make every effort to keep your work-life balance, some flexibility to these hours may be required during busiest periods

Please note - this role is only open to fully qualified accountants.

Students will not be considered for this role.