French Speaking Assistant Accountant
- Recruiter
- Page Personnel
- Location
- City of London, London
- Salary
- £30000 - £35000 per annum + study support
- Posted
- 18 Oct 2018
- Closes
- 18 Nov 2018
- Ref
- 13962420/001
- Contact
- Charlie Wilson
- Job role
- Assistant accountant
- Sector
- Digital
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
This exciting opportunity has come about due to strong growth by the business. This is a chance for a part-qualified accountant to join a thriving accountancy team. The candidate must be fluent in French.
Client Details
This well known and growing FMCG brand have seen exponential growth over the last 9 years. Their head office is based in Farringdon.
Description
As the French Speaking Assistant Accountant you will be responsible for the following:
- Audit management and statutory accounts preparation
- Being first point of contact for local accounting/audit companies (UK , France & Spain)
- Management of the year-end audit, ensuring deliverables are provided to external teams in a timely manner
- Preparation of statutory accounts alongside external accounting teams for all legal entities
- Tax Compliance
- Preparation and submission of VAT, PAYE, Sugar tax returns and management of in preparation of corporation tax returns by external tax advisors for all legal entities
- Month end management
- Preparing and posting month end journals, including marketing and overheads accruals and prepayments, FX revaluations, depreciation etc
- Preparing trial balance and consolidated P&Ls and balance sheets for review
- Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Stock Reconciliations
- Working with the Operations team to ensure inventory matches between warehouses and SAP, understanding any differences and advising adjustments where necessary
- Bank reconciliations
- Managing weekly and monthly bank reconciliations for bank accounts
- Investigating anomalies and resolving mismatches
- Accounts Payable and Accounts receivable assistance
- Ad hoc back up for AP and AR team members when necessary; posting invoices, credit notes, debit notes and remittances
Profile
To be considered for this French Speaking Assistant Accountant role you must have the following:
- Experience within a similar role (essential)
- Part-qualified accountant working towards becoming qualified (essential)
- Fluent French speaker (essential)
- Strong IT skills including MS Excel and preferably SAP experience
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills
- Finance or numerate degree desirable
Job Offer
£30,000 - £35,000 + study support & excellent benefits