Trade Accountant

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Insight Full time

**Trade Accountant (hybrid)**

**Salary - £60,000 + Benefits and Bonus**

Reporting to the Financial Director

My client is a progressive and successful commodities trading company based in Central London.

An opportunity has arisen for a Trade Accountant to join the London finance team. This is an exciting opportunity which offers exposure to a broad spectrum of financial and operational activities, in the context of a fast-paced international trading desk

**The Role**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Manage daily activities for my clients London trading desk, including the daily P&L, accounts payable, and cash accounting. This involves working closely with our accounting team in Asia, and ensuring that their work is reviewed and approved.
- Responsible for a rotation of month-end processes to build up commodities accounting knowledge, such as accrual calculations, intercompany reconciliations, management reporting to cocoa origin offices, certification calculations.
- Preparation of monthly forward books and the new business mark to market p&l for physical trade activity.
- Assist with ad hoc queries from trade and shipping teams
- Ad hoc cyclical finance activities such as assisting in monthly cash-flow forecasting, FX exposure management, and new system implementation.

**Skills & Experience**

This role will suit a focused self-starter with attention to detail, an analytical thought process, and strong team ethic. Effective communication skills, and enjoyment of teamwork are also crucial, as the role works very closely with the trade + operationsteams. Time management and ability to prioritise work load, are also important attributes.

This role is ideally suited to a newly qualified accountant (or very close to being qualified) with strong accounting skills and a desire to learn about the commodity trading industry. Ideally from an audit or industry background during their qualifications.Exposure working in an international organisation would be an advantage.

Excellent knowledge of Excel is also essential, as there will be a high level of data manipulation to produce reports.



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