Team Leader Accountant

Job Description

Your duties will include but not be limited to:

• Liaising with the business to ensure completeness in the purchase ledger
• Provide support for forecasting, variance analysis and budgeting
• Providing ad-hoc support when required by senior members of the team
• Responsibility of Month End Closure for your entities including AR reconciliation and Deferred Revenue
• P&L analysis – OPEX, Services, Residences and Homestay
• Monthly reporting
• Preparing and posting Prepayments journals
• Maintaining Fixed Asset register and posting depreciation journals
• Management of utility contracts including posting accruals and reviewing invoices
• Posting general OPEX accruals
• Management of residence costs including reviewing invoices and posting accruals
• Coding and posting credit card accruals
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Provide support during annual internal and external audits
• Provide support to the fiduciaries/external accounting departments.

Qualifications

Qualifications and experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, preferably inclusive of accounting modules
• Minimum 5 years previous experience in Accounts Payable/Accounting and P&L analysis.
• Valuable previous experience in auditing.
• Previous experience working for large corporation in accounting position
• Previous ownership or involvement in month-end processes

Skills and competencies

• Intermediate Excel knowledge (V Lookups, pivot tables, formatting of data…)
• Strong technical accounting skills
• Strong customer service ethos and high attention to detail
• Systematic and organised approach
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to process high volumes of work, to deadlines with minimal supervision
• Quick to pick up and apply knowledge
• High level of initiative, self-motivation and drive
• Reliable with a flexible attitude

Additional Information

Equal Opportunities statement:

At Kaplan International, we are committed to working in a diverse organisation and strive to provide equality of opportunity for all. We encourage and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or identity, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnership.