Accountant, Product Control - London, United Kingdom - eTech Partners
Description
An opportunity has arisen for an Accountant to join a Global Commodity Trading Company.You will have experience of both trade and financial accounting or alternately you will have experience within the big four or a commodity environment.
Responsibilities
- Accounting for Trading finance agreements (e.g. Loans to counterparts)
- Trading accruals/ prepayments (e.g. Structured long term transactions)
- Accounting for Trading/ Commodity components of other income/ expense.
- Budget Assumptions (Trading Margin)
- Review, analysis and control checks on currency balance sheets (trading)
- Cash flow hedge accounting
- Trading Margin accounting, including technical accounting judgement to achieve IFRS compliant accounting treatment for all trades and structures, including complex trades involving optionality and financing components
- Reconciliation from Commercial to IFRS/ IAS compliant Financial P&L and validation of all adjustments
- Calculation and validation of financial returns by business unit/ desk in accordance with defined methodology
- Detailed working capital analysis by business unit/ desk, including forecast and variance analysis
- Intercompany reconciliation
- Trade
- Analysis for reported Trading Margin & other income/expense
- Researching and agreeing technical accounting treatments for Trading/ Commodity transactions, including discussion and agreement with the external auditor
- Analysis and reporting for statutory financial reporting primarily IFRS
- Maintaining accounting documentation for Trading/ Commodity transactions
Experience required
- Qualified Accountant with several years post qualification experience
- Efficient and controlled management of large and complex data sets (systems and analytical tools, e.g. Access, Excel)
- Reconciliation of trade financial data from commercial reporting to IFRS compliant financial reporting, including calculation and validation of financial accounting adjustments.
- Management of reconciliation processes across a large international group.
- Critical analysis of financial data and identification/ investigation of inconsistent/ unusual data
- Presentation and justification of accounting treatment for complex/ structured transactions, including preparation of accounting summary papers for auditor review
More jobs from eTech Partners
-
Project Manager
London, United Kingdom - 4 days ago
-
Digital Project Manager
London, United Kingdom - 1 week ago
-
Transaction Finance Manager
London, United Kingdom - 2 days ago
-
Senior Data Governance Analyst
London, United Kingdom - 4 days ago
-
Junior Team Secretary
London, United Kingdom - 1 week ago
-
Management Accountant
London, United Kingdom - 4 days ago