Finance Administrator
Isle of Man
Contract
Our client seeks an experienced Finance Administrator to join their team for a 12-month maternity cover contract, offering an excellent opportunity to gain broad and valuable experience across accounting and cash operations within a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
This hands-on role covers a varied portfolio of responsibilities, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, alongside the wider accounting requirements for each strategy.
The 12-month contract provides an opportunity to develop a strong understanding of the business, build valuable cross-functional relationships and gain hands-on experience across a broad range of finance activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and support the monthly vessel close process across core trading strategies, including income and cost analysis, foreign exchange and derivatives review, and preparation of closing schedules for sign-off by Trading and Operations.
- Perform and support month-end inventory identification and reconciliation to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Conduct and support margin share analysis and adjustments arising from trade closures and portfolio clean-ups.
- Review balance sheet and derivatives positions to confirm accurate strategy allocation and reporting.
- Process and review accounts payable, accounts receivable, and office invoices, ensuring accurate coding and authorisation.
- Support trade and office payment processing, including maintaining banking system records.
- Oversee petty cash management and reconciliation across offices.
- Manage supplier confirmations and resolve related queries.
- Perform regular bank reconciliations across multiple regional accounts.
- Maintain fixed asset records, including additions, disposals, and depreciation.
- Perform prepayment and intercompany account reconciliations to ensure accurate period-end reporting.
- Support internal and external audit and compliance processes, including documentation requests and query resolution.
- Provide ad-hoc financial reporting and analysis as required to support period-end deadlines.
Key Skills and Experience:
- AAT level qualified (or working towards), or qualified by experience, with 5+ years practical experience across transactional accounting and month-end close.
- Candidates working towards a qualification will be considered given demonstrable practical ability.
- A track record of resolving discrepancies and queries independently, with sound judgement on when and how to escalate.
- Excel (Microsoft) proficiency.
- Time management skills to manage and prioritise tasks in order to achieve deadlines.
- High levels of accuracy.
Your specialist: Mark Burman
Quote job ref: 16793
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