Description
Rutherford Cross are seeking a part qualified or newly qualified accountant with strong background in month end accounting within a financial control or operational environment. This would be an excellent opportunity for an individual interested in developing their people management skills to develop in this way. You must have good excel skills, balance sheet reconciliation and a controls background. You must be comfortable in a fast moving environment and thrive with “change”.
You will be responsible for running accounting models, raising accruals, reviewing actuals against forecasts, preparing reporting information with full reconciliation and substantiation of related balance sheet positions for the banking products that you support.
Oversee and develop month end accounting including –
- Month end review of journals and underlying workings prepared by an Accounting Technician
- Regular review and challenge of underlying models used to calculate postings to ledger
- Liaison with external audit
- Supporting end customers within the Bank including Decision Support, Reporting and business areas. Regular engagement and ad hoc support required.
- Cover for preparation of journals due to holidays or sickness
- Ensuring full compliance with appropriate Bank policies
- Balance sheet review and substantiation
- Review and challenge of process documentation
- Project support
The role will have overall responsibility for financial control activities for several products or services, ensuring internal customers are fully engaged and that our services meet their requirements efficiently and timeously.
Develop, review & implement any process improvements. As a result of a change in General Ledger and related source systems all processes will need to be reviewed and adapted. This will vary from minor changes such as revised end journal to potentially, complete re-design of a process. The post holder will be responsible for organising and implementing the processes under their control.
Please call Lucy Edgar on 0131 603 8111 for more information or send your CV to [email protected]