Senior Financial Accountant Job Description
Senior financial accountant
provides support in a timely fashion, understand new IFRS accounting guidance, and discuss appropriate IFRS/US GAAP ICA accounting treatment.
Senior Financial Accountant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Ensure statutory accounts and all other returns are prepared in line with all deadlines for review with Controller and signoff by Finance Director, working with Accounting & Tax teams as necessary
Responsible for the timely and accurate review and posting of month end close and accounting transactions
Preparing pension plan accounting analysis and footnote disclosures
Participation in current activity that involves due diligence reviews and acquisition accounting entries
Ensures that all corporate policy changes are incorporated in the accounting process according to corporate guidelines
Act as a point of contact for the firm with the Funds’ auditors
Manage the coordination of the financial statement process from the initial creation of the documents through the various levels of review and eventual issuance
Monitor the timely progression of the audits
Interact with the trading desk, tax, legal, investor services, and compliance groups to identify and resolve issues
Assist with reviewing and filing new regulatory reporting requirements with the SEC, NFA, CFTC, Treasury department and other regulatory bodies
Senior Financial Accountant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Financial Accountant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPA, CMA, CFA, SOX, IA, CIA, MBA
Education for Senior Financial Accountant
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Employers hiring for the senior financial accountant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, English, Education, Management, Communication, Portuguese, Spanish, Economics
Skills for Senior Financial Accountant
Desired skills for senior financial accountant include:
SAP
Any other European language
IFRS
Financial accounting concepts
Intercompany transactions
US GAAP and IFRS
US GAAP
Accounting
Excel
Fund accounting
Desired experience for senior financial accountant includes:
Ability to influence develop relationships with key stakeholders both internal and external
Big 4 or Business Services Chartered Accountant
Strong knowledge of financial services
Qualified Accountant with circa 2 years PQE
ACA Qualified and trained in a Big 4 or Top 10 environment
Capability to manage various work streams and deadlines in an efficient and timely manner
Senior Financial Accountant Examples
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Senior Financial Accountant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior financial accountant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior financial accountant
- Supporting payroll process as and when required
- Ensuring base financial records are correct and accessible in appropriate systems and management reports are provided in a timely manner
- SOX compliance- to assist Market controller in insuring that the site fully complies with local and corporate requirements for SOX
- CA qualification from a Chartered Background
- Experience with property or construction clients is an advantage
- Staff management exposure
- Responsible for the monthly budgeting process
- Responsible for the successful transition of activity from EMEA region into the Global Business Services Organisation aligning in some instances with the roll out of the Oracle ERP solution
- Assist with corporate finance month end activities, entries and review, including URPS, sales eliminations, accruals and prepayments
- Assist with journal and reconciliation reviews and ensuring compliance with company control policies
Qualifications for senior financial accountant
- Ideally 3+ years post qualification experience in a similar role and industry
- Commercially aware and ability to influence
- Conscientious, attention to detail and quality focused
- Communicating and assisting key internal stakeholders including HR, Data management other areas of finance
- Recently Qualified Accountant (ACCA, ACA, CPA, CIMA) or qualified by experience
- Distinct advantage, experience in supporting Tax
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Senior Financial Accountant Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior financial accountant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior financial accountant
- Support Tax & Technical team, including SAO testing and ad hoc tasks
- Provide commercial support and advice to a range of key stakeholders
- To prepare set of management accounts on monthly basis
- To assist on UK Branch specific reporting and other requirements
- Monitor weekly payment run cycle and ageing
- Overview fixed asset record maintenance, including reconciliation with physical stock take and inventory lists
- Maintain the Delegation of Authority and online Banking authority
- Preparation & co-ordination of monthly Trial Balance, P&L and Balance Sheets to tight monthly deadlines
- Reconciliation of management to financial accounts
- Development of streamlined sales reporting system
Qualifications for senior financial accountant
- Ability to be self-motivated, cope with minimal supervision in order to maintain both personal and team effectiveness
- Ability to manage workloads to strict reporting deadlines
- Prepare the monthly reporting packs in line with deadlines
- Managing one Accountant
- CA/CPA qualified + 3/4 years post qualified experience
- Have 3 plus years' post-qualification experience - farming/agricultural environment experience is advantageous
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Senior Financial Accountant Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior financial accountant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior financial accountant
- Completion of statutory returns for Ireland & UK
- Development of proper internal control procedures ensuring the safeguard of company assets including Inventory
- Support Finance Director & European Operations Director in new product/market projects and initiatives
- Support development and implementation of new modular operating system - all financial modules
- Participate on cost reduction team to identify and deliver savings
- Development of online reporting tools with IT & FD
- Prepare and maintain GL monthly journal entries
- Provide all relevant support documentations
- Foreign VAT Schedules
- Prepare annual balance sheet review
Qualifications for senior financial accountant
- Commercial, motivated individual with the ability to work off own initiative but also as part of a team
- Energetic, driven and solutions-focused with the ability to influence
- Fully qualified accountant with 3-5 yrs
- Experience of working as an RTR Financial Accountant within an SSC advantageous
- Good working knowledge of Oracle or similar integrated software product
- Fluency in languages an advantage (German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese)
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Senior Financial Accountant Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior financial accountant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior financial accountant
- Support the improvement and rationalization of accounting and reporting of the entities
- Tax and Treasury assistance
- Internal Controls (SOX & FCPA) testing
- Ahdoc duties include assisting in systems upgrades and implementations
- Report the ANZ region's monthly financial results
- Provide technical support and advice on complex issues
- Implement strong financial governance and controls
- Be the key contact for any finance queries both internally and externally
- Work closely with the Group Financial Controller on ad-hoc projects across the group
- Complete month end close procedures
Qualifications for senior financial accountant
- Provide adhoc cost analysis to FP&A team support to the business for finance related queries when needed
- Available to commit to a 12 month contract
- Knowledge of the insurance sector/financial services essential
- Tax calculations
- Ideally financial services background
- Business services/private clients background ideal with 3+ years post qualified hands on experience
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Senior Financial Accountant Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior financial accountant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior financial accountant
- Accounts payable and Fixed Assets register
- Assist the Senior Manager to monitor Financial Control-related activities in China, including a locally incorporated company
- Business Services Organisation aligning in some instances with the roll out of the Oracle ERP solution
- Financial support for local management team
- Challenges shortfalls, identifies contingencies and drives the achievement of financial targets
- Supporting a control structure sufficient to comply with SOX requirements
- Liaise with production in producing detailed cost analysis for product, labour and machinery costs
- Drives the development and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives
- Reviews sundry and other non-recurring charge batches created by Sr
- Training of staff in procedures that provide accurate and complete financial reporting
Qualifications for senior financial accountant
- Confidence to work independently, and be lead T&E, credit card, AP contact for the business
- High attention to detail with ability to meet strict reporting deadlines
- German fluency an advantage
- Professional Accountancy qualification from one of four recognized institutions ie ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA
- Supervisory / team leading and project management experience an advantage
- Strong operating/reporting systems experience an advantage