Senior Finance Assistant

Senior Finance Assistant

Our Client is an international shipping company looking to recruit a Senior Finance Assistant with 5 plus years’ experience in Finance.

• Overall back office role for the Client, including but not limited to:
• Accounting
• Internal Reporting
• Taxation
• Auditing
• Internal control/J-SOX
• System maintenance and development
• Other administrative works, especially to be compliant with financial regulations in EU and UK
• Payment/Receipt related duties, including trade finance
• Treasury/Foreign exchange assistance
• All accounting, reporting, taxation, auditing, internal control/J-SOX for the Company
• Some treasury-related duties such as payment and receipt of money, settlement confirmation, interest and foreign exchange risk management
• Supporting loan, deposit, FX related transactions for Company Offices and Group Companies.
• Check terms and conditions of L/Cs for safe collection of export proceeds and payment of import trade contracts and arranging documentary collections.
• Maintain and develop ECC, Internet Banking Platform and any other system related matter.
• Registration and maintaining of Company offices’ Customer Bank Information on SAP for payment.
• Follow up to be compliant with financial regulations in UK and EU.
• Answering enquiries and providing advice to/from business departments and corporate departments of other Company offices and Group Companies.
• Relationships with:
• Financial institutions
• Auditors, Tax consultants, Regulatory authorities, etc.
• Staff of EMEA office/branch, group companies, and Tokyo office.

Key Skills:

• Good verbal and written communication skills coupled with numerical and analytical skills.
• IT skills including Word, Excel, SAP.
• Knowledge of cash management, finance market and banking processes.
• Accounting and Taxation knowledge.
• Comprehensive experience working in accounting or finance department of a company, accounting firms, or financial institutions, specifically within treasury activities including cash management experience in the finance market area.
• You will ideally have a degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or Economics.

The role will be based in the City of London.

The salary for this position will be in the range £34K - £37K plus benefits.

Please send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.