Assistant Accountant Job Description
Assistant Accountant Duties & Responsibilities
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Assistant Accountant Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Assistant Accountant
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Education for Assistant Accountant
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Skills for Assistant Accountant
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Assistant Accountant Examples
Assistant Accountant Job Description
- Ensuring timely completion of balance sheet reconciliations
- Understand FINMA Capital Adequacy rules and how the rules are applied to production
- Provide assistance to other team members to ensure timely and accurate daily reports are completed and distributed to clients
- Understand the main Regulatory systems which are STAR, Axiom and COMET
- Take part in financial closing, consolidation, reporting and audit process
- Take initiative to identify problems and potential financial impacts on all finance-related matters in the companies
- Ability of being independent, responsible, flexible, dedicated, mature and proactive
- Organise the validation and payment of daily treasury operations by completing payment request forms, filling accounts details for posting, getting authority signatures and processing intercompany invoices
- Prepare the daily sweep payment for securitisation, keep a log of all payments and prepare all relevant journals
- Manage the sales regional budgets by processing all payment requests, checking validation, organising payment, coding the transaction and monitoring expenses against budget
- Diploma holder or university graduate in Accounting, Finance or related disciplines
- Uses logic and analysis to find solutions to problems
- Collaborates willingly with others
- Minimum of 3 years general accounting experience in a commercial environment
- Demonstrate flexibility in your approach to work
- AAT qualified or CIMA/ACCA part qualified
Assistant Accountant Job Description
- Responsibility for delivering accurate and timely first draft & final management accounts, including both profit and loss reporting and balance sheet reconciliations to the finance business partner team
- Provision of ad hoc support to Finance Business Partners
- Formal and informal interaction with the Finance Business Partners & other stakeholders, to ensure service delivery requirements and standards are being met
- In charge of the Purchase Order process
- Review weekly supplier payment runs, process payments according to vendors’ agreements, Group payment policy
- Maintain ledgers
- Develop spreadsheets for analysis
- Raise invoices
- Analysis and reconciliations
- Process and send invoices and statements
- Firm knowledge of accounting systems
- A strong knowledge of accounting
- 2-3 years post Qualified
- Various administrative duties including filing of documents
- Carry out year-end procedures
- Prepare annual accounts for auditors
Assistant Accountant Job Description
- Prepare tax returns (as applicable)
- Work independently on bookkeeping and account reconciliations both in the office and at client location (as applicable for SBA)
- Reponsible for staff expense reimbursement
- To set up multi-currency payments and arrange for authorisation so that payments are sent in a timely and efficient manner
- To ensure that all foreign payments are posted to the cashbook on a regular basis
- Conducting monthly revaluations of bank accounts, loading the new month’s rates into Sun and distributing to all users
- To provide cover for the Treasury Clerk and handle petty cash requests as necessary
- Working closely with accounts payables/receivables teams to maintain cash flow forecasts
- To send the Daily Treasury Report, along with the detailed cashflows, to Corporate Treasury
- Liaising with Corporate Treasury in New York on day to day cash matters and making intercompany transfers when required to do so
- Part professional accounting qualification
- Part qualified accountant or minimum 1-2 years’ work experience
- Professionally qualified is preferable
- Minimum 2- 3 years relevant experience in multinational corporation
- Self driven, analytical and detail oriented
- Desire to work in the Buffalo (specifically Batavia) area
Assistant Accountant Job Description
- All accounts payable duties including processing of creditor payments
- Carrier Invoices Reconciliation
- Assisting the bill run process with timely delivery of final receipting/credits applied/revenue reconciliation
- Fixed asset register – maintenance and CAPEX reports
- Sort, code, match invoices with relevant supporting documents and authorisation
- Pay suppliers in accordance with payment terms
- Verify petty cash documentation and its supporting receipts
- Reconcile creditors sub ledger to general ledger
- Reconciliation of creditor statements of account
- Support in the preparation of VAT and withholding tax filings, provision of any supporting documentation required
- To assist the Finance Manager with year end close, and to assist with the production of the Year End accounts within specified deadlines
- Ensure that effective cost controls are in place across the department
- Deputise for the Finance Manager at appropriate meetings and/or during periods of absence
- Establish effective working relationships with key stakeholders both within PMITS and the wider University, to include, but not limited to PMITS Budget Holders and Project Managers, other Project Managers outside the department, key staff within the central Finance Division
- To provide regular support to Budget Holders and Project Managers on varied financial matters, including, but not limited to budgets, forecasts, coding matters, financial regulations etc
- To approve recruitment requests in line with the agreed budget and follow-up actions agreed at the monthly Recruitment meeting with the Directors
Assistant Accountant Job Description
- Investigate and resolve any reconciling items
- Calculating and raising monthly payments due to various suppliers including our Franchise partners and organisations where we act as a collection agent
- Posting of UK flying, ensuring correct period matching of costs
- Posting accruals or prepayments where necessary to ensure accurate cost reporting to the P&L
- Assist in the preparation of statutory returns (ATOL/ABTA)
- Be a proactive member of the Finance team with a desire to develop skills
- Assisting in improvement projects for the team as required
- Arrange inventory physical counts to ensure the validity and accuracy of assets
- Review and post journal entires into ERP
- Review and prepare monthly variance analysis
- Degree/Diploma in Accounting, Finance or related discipline
- A minimum of three (3) years relevant experience acquired from multinational organization is preferable
- Team player who could multi-task and work under time pressure to meet tight deadlines
- Attention to detail, sensitive to data to perform reconciliations accurately
- An interest in finance and analytics (either have studied the subject or studying towards CA or CPA qualifications)
- Previous experience in a finance or accounts role