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Communicate

Salary

From £35,000 to £40,000 per year

Location

Central London

Qualifications

ACA/CTA/ACCA

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Our client, a Global Marketing Business, is seeking a Tax & Reporting Accountant for their central tax team in London.

Key responsibilities:

- Support the Head of Financial Planning in the maintenance & development of tax strategies, tax applications and tax compliance in the countries in which the company has its operations. This includes agreement on tax status, business compliance, VAT compliances, local income tax on expatriates and agreement with tax authorities of our tax structures.
- Responsible for the preparation, development and maintenance of the organisational policies and procedures relating to tax.
- To be a source of advice for the organisation in relation to any tax matters and ensure that knowledge is fully up to date.
- Maintain through consultants an international source of advice that VB can use to ensure expert local tax advice is received. Control cost of consultants.
- Support the preparation of the annual statutory accounts and notes and help to ensure they are completed in agreed timescales, reflect the financial activities of the organisation during the year, and comply with the latest IFRS based FReM.
- Provide full support to the Senior Finance Manager in all other management accounting projects and perform ad hoc duties as and when required.

The candidate will be ACA/CTA/ACCA qualified with good knowledge of world-wide taxation (VAT, corporate, expatriate).

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SystemsAccountants Ltd

Salary

Competitive

Location

The City

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Cognos Planning Analyst
Contract - London

Experienced Cognos Planning Analyst required to assist in the support, administration and development of Cognos Planning as well as a number of other financial systems for my London based client. The primary responsibility will be the support and maintenance of Cognos Planning and therefore requires candidates to have a strong background in this, and be comfortable in a support position but equally be comfortable in development of Cognos Planning models when the need arises.

3 months initially with potential to extend for up to 12 months.

For further information please contact Carrie Churchill on [contact details removed] and send your CV to [contact details removed]

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Kennedy Pearce Consulting Limited

Salary

From £70,000 to £85,000 per year

Location

The City

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Ownership, review and reporting of all finance aspects of new products

Analysis and review of Business Cases, identification and impact assessment of capitalisation element and attendance and presentation at fortnightly meeting to review and assess projects and related financials.

Ownership of total costs from Finance perspective. Responsible for accurate presentation of costs and associated forecast analysis to the business, facing off to senior management of all divisions to explain variances and drivers behind key cost lines, and working with them to gain better understanding of forecast cost expectations.

Co-ordination of junior team members to assist in detailed cost adjustments, forecast & variance analysis, and all journal postings required.

Development and ongoing maintenance of profitability model.

Responsible for delivering up to date and relevant information to enable effective understanding of product/client/investment desk contribution and profitability.

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Vision FR

Salary

From £40,000 to £45,000 per year

Location

Central London

Qualifications

Part-Qualified ACCA/ CIMA equivalent

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

JOB TITLE: FINANCE MANAGER

1. BACKGROUND
A growing consultancy of around 30 people based in central London. We help brands and businesses succeed and grow through strategic product and service design. In practical terms this means we help clients improve or innovate their product / service offering, increasing engagement with stakeholders and consumers across all touch points, but with particular emphasis on digital.
Our company culture is about being smart but not stuffy, independent yet collaborative, telling it like it is yet being respectful, and hard-working without over-working. We reward creative innovation, sharing and collaboration and support continuous personal development.

2. PURPOSE OF ROLE
The Finance Manager will be reporting to the financial controller and be responsible all the day to day finance activities of the company. This will include the preparation of the management accounts and also the maintenance of the sales/purchase and job costing activities and ad hoc finance reporting

3. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
3.1. Management Accounts
• Preparing the monthly management information – including P&L Sheet/Balance sheet / Debtors information . This will include detailed analysis of the revenue and costs and the balance sheet reconciliations
3.2. Job Costing
• Working with the project managers/account team to manage the finance on all jobs
• Ensuring that we have client authorization for all jobs
• Reconciling the WIP on Paprika – both time and 3rd party expenses
• Ensuring all the invoices are sent out timely
3.3. Sales Ledger
• Work with the project manager/account teams to send out invoices in a timely manner
• Credit control – chase outstanding invoices with clients
• Maintenance of the client information on Paprika
3.4. Purchase Ledger
• Post all supplier invoices onto Paprika after they have been authorised
• Reconcile supplier statements and make payments to supplier
• Deal with any supplier queries
• Process all employee expense claims
3.5. Bank Reconciliations
• Reconcile all the banks on a weekly basis
• Post all receipts and payments onto Paprika
• Manage the Petty Cash and the Incentives Money
3.6. Tax reporting
• Preparation of the quarterly VAT Returns
• Assisting with any information required for the Corporation tax and PAYE reporting
3.7. Other
• Fixed asset register – maintenance
• Maintenance of the accounting system – Paprika – including training new staff and liaising with the software provider to resolve queries.
• Provide financial support for our US operations as required
• An understanding of payroll procedures
3.8. Year-end Procedures
• Assist in the preparation of the statutory accounts
• Assist in the preparation of any yearend tax information

4. GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Undertakes any other activity as would be reasonably expected for the role, in agreement with their line manager

5. PERSONAL SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES
The Finance Manager is expected to have the following skills and attributes:
• A graduate with an accountancy qualification or a finalist
• Experience of working in ‘Agency’ environment
• Computer Skills – Knowledge of the Paprika Job Costing System an advantage but not essential
• Commercially aware
• Numerate and strong PC Skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• The verbal communication skills to communicate effectively
• The written communication skills to produce succinct correspondence and reports
• An understanding of the Company’s business and an appreciation of its company’s commercial objectives

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Sanderson

Salary

Competitive

Location

The City

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

A large scale London based business is currently seeking an HFM Systems administration Manager to join them on an interim six month contract.

The Hyperion Systems Administration manager is responsible for providing efficient and cost effective support of the end to end financial consolidation and reporting processes through the provision of a consolidation application (Hyperion Financial Management).

Managing the risks associated with provision of the consolidation application by ensuring that the systems have appropriate controls in place and by working with the process owners in IT and finance to ensure that the appropriate systems controls are integrated with the end to end processes

Helping build controls and compliance capability and awareness across the function through training, development and communications.

Oversee the effective maintenance of the Hyperion system, in support of the Finance process objectives and KPI’s, ensuring that the appropriate controls are in place. For example, ensure that static application controls are effective, by controlling and monitoring logged on users and managing the audit trail and archiving of data.

The right candidate must have Hyperion development and implementation experience, including:

Strong experience of application support and maintenance
Strong experience of managing data
Strong experience of monitoring and improving controls and processes relating to both systems and finance processes
Strong experience of managing, developing and motivating a team
Strong experience of defining and managing user’s financial systems requirements;
Strong experience of defining capabilities, and the development of training.

The client is seeking someone that can start immediately.

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Morgan Hunt

Salary

From £350 to £400 per day

Location

The City

Job term

Temporary

Job hours

Full time

A leading Property company requires a qualified financial modeller to join their team for around three months. This is a vital position providing commercial business modelling support on a the development and maintenance of existing models for their extensive property portfolio. This will include their Joint venture assets and new acquisition targets.

You will be responsible for both creating new models and utilisation and manipulation of existing models

Due to the complexity of the business, it is essential you have proven modelling experience from the property sector.

Duties:

Financial and risk analysis of proposed contractual arrangements
Completion of financial models in support of complex joint ventures and buildings
Presenting to board directors
Working with the directors across each discipline and building new financial models
Developing consistent quality control within the group for financial modelling within the organisation
Very good understanding of financial principles, including spread sheet-based financial analysis and a strong understanding, UK GAAP and IFRS.

MUST HAVE A PROPERTY BACKGROUND


MUST BE ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSIONALLY QUALIFIED
Morgan Hunt is a multi award winning Employment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer.

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Goodman Masson

Salary

Competitive

Location

The City

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

My Client, a Global Investment Bank, is looking to hire an ambitious junior into their Equity Derivatives Product Control team. This is an ideal opportunity for a hard working, meticulous and ambitious individual to develop their career within Investment Banking.

Responsibilities
• Review of daily P&L and explanation of P&L movements to management
• Ensure risk portfolios are valued correctly
• Regular liaison with other areas of the business.
• System reconciliation
• Continuous maintenance and improvements to strong controls
• Regular ad hoc projects driving process improvement

Key Skills
• Good academic background: 2:1 degree (or equivalent) in a numerate based subject with good A level results (or equivalent)
• Genuine desire to work within Investment Banking Product Control
• Prior practical knowledge of Credit Derivatives would be a bonus
• Prior experience of working in a Finance or Product Control role.
• Minimum of 1 year’s experience
• Track record of successful process improvement with previous employers
Goodman Masson is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Goodman Masson is an equal opportunities employer.

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Carlisle Managed Solutions..

Salary

Competitive

Location

The City

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

To provide legal services to a leading Life & Pensions business, handling a variety of matters and to protect and promote the interests of the client in commercial and insurance law matters relating to its business.

Assisting the legal advisers on matters which requires the application of technical paralegal skills on a variety of matters including reviewing contracts and undertaking legal research as requested.
Producing draft agreements based on clients templates and reviewing and amending simple contracts
Provide support in relation to the clients Legal sharepoint site, including reviewing precedents, drafting guidance notes and providing administrative support.
Provide appropriate support in relation to training for team or department, including legal research for internal training
Supporting team events, meetings.
Provide some support to the legal assistants on an overflow basis for departmental matters.
Maintain the contract and document management system called Framework , including making sure that copies of all contracts and other relevant documents are loaded onto Framework, the information on Framework is accurate
Assist in the improvement of Framework
Support the operation of the Document Approval and Signature Process.
Assist Company Secretariat with the obtaining and ongoing maintenance of Consumer Credit Licences for the client.


Essential

Paralegal experience
Strong Organisational and Communication skills
Experience & Understanding in dealing with highly confidential information.
Ability to use your initiative, work under pressure and support others to meet tight deadlines.
Desirable

Qualifications – a law degree or other degree with CPE / GDL plus either (i) LPC qualification or (ii) BPTC qualification.
Legal experience from either a law firm or insurance or insurance /financial services business


Salary up to £29,000 per annum depending on experience.
Annual performance related pay review and bonus.
Defined contribution pension scheme.
26 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays.




Carlisle Managed Solutions is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.