Trainee Accountant Job Description
Trainee Accountant Duties & Responsibilities
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Trainee Accountant Qualifications
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Education for Trainee Accountant
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Skills for Trainee Accountant
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Trainee Accountant Examples
Trainee Accountant Job Description
- Provides guidance to the Fund Accounting Team
- Ensures technical assistance to Fund Accounting Team
- Problem solving for the Fund Accounting Team in resolving issues
- Supervises the Fund Accounting Team to ensure that procedures are followed and that the service is at the required standard
- Performs the annual evaluation of the Fund Accounting Team
- Assist with the management of the fixed asset & project costing function ensuring accuracy of the fixed asset register
- Co-ordinating and preparing all intercompany invoicing to/from other PMI affiliates
- Preparing journals
- Participating in specific project groups as determined by business needs
- Assist with monthly and annual account reconciliations, close activities and balance sheet management
- Candidates should have a minimum of a 2.1 degree in a business discipline
- Ideally Degree Educated (Accountancy & Finance) however all levels may apply
- Someone progressive, wanting to study ACCA/CIMA
- At least 1 year of experience in a similar role/work on the general ledger
- Weekly & monthly KPI reports
- Group quarterly management accounts
Trainee Accountant Job Description
- Maintain compliance framework to ensure full compliance with local statutory / regulatory requirements VAT returns, payroll returns, CSO returns (or equivalent) and ensuring all other filings (accounting, legal, tax) are completed and filed in accordance with local legislation and timelines, including liaison with third party accountants for local filings and compliance matters
- Direct involvement in month-end closing process
- Support for solvency returns to the Central Bank of Ireland
- Involved in ICOFR project
- Supporting the preparation and delivery of the regulatory, prudential and statistical reporting requirements in line with internal procedures
- Assisting the finance team with the development and improvement of processes and efficiencies
- Reporting to internal and external stakeholders and liaising across multiple internal business and support functions
- Administration of VAT
- SOX procedure updates
- Deal with day-to-day queries from depots and Contract Office staff or allocate to an accounts staff member
- Group & divisional management accounts & budgets
- Support and development towards professional accountancy certification
- Knowledge of Czech GAAP – Basic knowledge of Czech tax regulations (VAT, CIT)
- Graduate (interest in pursuing accountancy qualification is preferable)
- Self-starter with good organisational skills
- Ability and confidence to challenge current processes and identify alternatives
Trainee Accountant Job Description
- Communicates issues on a timely basis to management
- Maintains positive relationships with clients
- Expands and promotes the image of SGSS to all external contacts
- Assists all recipients of SGSS services on their needs
- Ensures that clients receive the best quality of service
- Proactive in response to (internal and external) client queries
- Implement and continually update procedures and processes
- Ensure processes and procedures comply with the ISAE3402 certification
- Ensure the review of operational procedures
- Participating and leading on special projects where required
- Previous experience in a financial services financial reporting role may be an advantage
- Previous experience with SAP (or similar GL system)
- Prepare the monthly group UK VAT return and Intrastat return on a rotational basis
- Processing of company expense claims using the Concur expense reporting system (VAT compliance)
- Learn procedures to provide cover for essential tasks (daily file transfers, and all treasury functions)
- Assist with the monthly financial control reconciliations
Trainee Accountant Job Description
- Assessing contracts and leases for IFRS implications
- Provide support for processing feeder/interface files the day they are received
- Administering the council’s insurance policy, dealing with claims, liaising with insurers and ensuring insurance cover is adequate and renewed on a timely basis
- Support the Financial Accountant with CCS and CPA month-end reporting to management
- Work alongside the Business Analyst to provide real-time management information to operations staff
- Develop, maintain and provide finance and management reports and other internal schedules as required in conjunction with the Finance team and the Operations team -Provide support and expertise to the Financial Accountant -Identify best practice and ensuring consistent processes are in place
- Work with the offshore team to optimise the work that is done offshore and onshore
- Work closely with other members of the Finance Team to ensure a consistent approach is taken to ensure compliance and control in relation to financial activities at all times that is aligned with the Group strategy and values
- Act as a visible advocate and role model for our purpose and values, creating an environment where our values are consistently demonstrated through yours and the teams` behaviours
- Responsible - you will work by example in putting the customer at the heart of all people approaches and services
- Assist with all continuous improvement projects
- Degree educated or equivalent in a finance related degree
- Daily invoice scanning on to the Hyland document system for RJL and some ‘order’ related invoice entry as required
- Assist with external and internal audit
- Good initiative required but also ability to recognize when escalation of issues needs to be taken
- French an advantage
Trainee Accountant Job Description
- Assist with parent company reporting, with regards to all aspects of planning, is completed on a timely basis
- Maintain and improve a system of monthly rolling forecasts to analyse expected performance
- Production of scheduled and various ad-hoc analysis to meet business planning, reporting, financing, regulatory and benchmarking analysis is completed to a high standard, with appropriate controls and checks, whilst meeting challenging and often conflicting deadlines
- Assist in the design and preparation of materials to enable communication of the group business plan and other information to employees ensuring relevance for the audience
- You will have a good appreciation of compliance and governance and be able to work within a defined policy
- Provision of financial modelling support to the wider business as required for the evaluation of strategic and tactical business decisions
- Treasury process and systems control
- Treasury reporting
- Development and production of Treasury back office operational reporting (eg compliance, errors, exceptions, audit trails)
- Flexible with regards thoughts, process and people
- Knowledge of GP3 an advantage
- Flexibility & willingness to travel on occasions
- Use of Agresso and/or Integra ERP system
- Been a valued member of a high performing finance team ideally within a customer centric service or retail industry environment
- To complete all bank reconciliations on a weekly/monthly basis (Sterling, Euro, US Dollar and Yen)
- To prepare daily, weekly and monthly cash flow reports