Assistant Manager

2 weeks ago


London, UK, United Kingdom People First Full time

The Skills You'll Need: Accounting knowledge, Advanced Excel, SAP

Your New Salary: £45 - £50K per annum

Location: Central London

Job status: Hybrid working possible after the probation period (3 days a week at office)

Working hours: 35h per week, Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm (1h lunch break)

Assistant Manager - Accounting - Who You'll Be Working for:

A well-known Japanese global trading company with their office in Central London is seeking an all-round flexible team player to join their accounting team.

Assistant Manager - Accounting - What you'll Be doing each day:

  • Assistant Manager of Accounting Department taking some delegated responsibilities from general manager or line manager
  • Posting and Approving journal entries properly for delegated areas and/or amounts
  • Ensuring day by day accounting work, monthly/quarterly/yearly closing & reporting, and statutory requirements including corresponding financial audit, VAT declaration, and reporting such as national statics
  • Ensuring J-SOX requirement and internal control management such as daily accounting booking procedure, inventory confirmation/check, balance confirmation
  • Assisting the other managers, tax, consolidation, in same department for statutory purpose, group reporting, group management purposes
  • Assisting with the implementation of internal policies and rules related to accounting and tax
  • Assisting some management account area like preparation of budget & forecast or analysis between result and budget/forecast
  • Managing the day-to-day running of the accounting functions
  • Cooperating with colleagues from group companies or the other overseas offices of the company in Europe & CIS bloc for accounting related work: control or tax

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

  • Strong interest in quantitative analysis and business operations.
  • Solid knowledge and experience in accounting work
  • Knowledge of accounting (UK GAAP and IFRS)
  • Experience of Statutory Account preparation such as: VAT return, statutory reports
  • SAP (S/4 HANA) experience - advantageous
  • Strong Excel skills
  • Proficient in the use of MS Office
  • Experience and applied knowledge working with a wide range of accounting functions
  • Proven ability in Leadership & Financial Accounting
  • Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
  • Solving problems
  • Proactive and can-do approach
  • understanding of Japanese business working environment - advantageous

Please follow us on Linkedin: people-first-team-japan

We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

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