Manager - Accounting - CA - Trading Firm

Hiring Manager Accounting for a top MNC Trading company.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills :

- Qualified Chartered Accountant with minimum experience in industry for 7 years

- Strong academic background

- Highly developed communication skills and experience of operating in an international environment, preferably from working for an international company.

- Self-motivated with a mature attitude. Able to work independently in a professional manner and maintain high standards of integrity.

- Ability to question and challenge the existing processes, with a view to creating reporting efficiencies and improvements.

- International outlook. Able to cope with working with staff in different offices worldwide.

- Drive and determination to obtain understanding of complex, business-driven transactions and report these accurately according to the appropriate accounting standards.

- Advanced Excel skills and a willingness to use technology to complete/ improve daily tasks.

- Team player with an enthusiastic approach to fresh challenges.

- Strong communication skills. Comfortable to liaise with non-accounting staff at all levels on a routine basis.

Key Responsibilities :

- Month end book close

- Review and provide month end summary of accruals, prepayment and other key balance sheet accounts.

- Review of P&L, Trial balance & various disclosure under IFRS

- Review of accounting of derivatives

- Providing various variance analysis & commentaries for management.

- Review of month end schedules including key controls like debtors, creditors, loans, intercompany positions etc

- Resolving accounting queries with various departments including deal desks, operation and other upstream / downstream departments.

- Interacting with auditors and resolution of audit queries

- Providing requested details to various departments like tax, finance etc.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

- Strong accounting background (including derivatives and hedge accounting)

- Well versed with IFRS and multi GAAP scenarios

- Excellent spoken and written communication skills.

- Attention to details including high volume data analysis with lowest level details.

- Able to cope in a highly pressured and demanding environment and handle multiple deliverables.

- Excel skills.

Key Relationships :

- Accounting colleagues in international locations including Geneva, Amsterdam etc

- Deal desk, operations, derivatives back office desk

- FX and treasury team

- IT

- Various upstream / downstream departments