Assistant Accountant (French speaking) - Healthy drinks company

Company Overview

Since launching in the UK the brand has seen exponential growth and has seen a 19% YOY growth performance across the Convenience sector, contributing 1.4m to the category. This is a hugely exciting opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing brand which is currently championing the healthy drinks industry.

Job Summary

They are looking for a charismatic, ambitious and results orientated Assistant Accountant who is fluent in the French language to support the Finance Team working closely with the French market. This is a really exciting opportunity to be a part of an exciting entrepreneurial company and build your career in finance.

In a nutshell, you are responsible for:

• Year end audit management and statutory accounts preparation
• Month end management
• Tax compliance
• Stock reconciliations
• Bank reconciliations
• Ad hoc AP and AR assistance

In more detail, this means:

Audit management and statutory accounts preparation

• Being first point of contact for local accounting/audit companies (UK , France & Spain)
• Management of the year-end audit, ensuring deliverables are provided to external teams in a timely manner
• Preparation of statutory accounts alongside external accounting teams for all legal entities

Tax Compliance

• Preparation and submission of VAT, PAYE, Sugar tax returns and management of in preparation of corporation tax returns by external tax advisors for all legal entities

Month end management

• Preparing and posting month end journals, including marketing and overheads accruals and prepayments, FX revaluations, depreciation etc
• Preparing trial balance and consolidated P&Ls and balance sheets for review
• Balance Sheet reconciliations

Stock Reconciliations

• Working with the Operations team to ensure inventory matches between warehouses and SAP, understanding any differences and advising adjustments where necessary

Bank reconciliations

• Managing weekly and monthly bank reconciliations for bank accounts
• Investigating anomalies and resolving mismatches

Accounts Payable and Accounts receivable assistance

• Ad hoc back up for AP and AR team members when necessary; posting invoices, credit notes, debit notes and remittances

Specific knowledge, qualifications, skills & experience required:

• Either a finance or numerate degree and at least 2 years' experience in a similar role is desired
• A part-qualified accountant or working towards being qualified would be advantageous
• Native or fluent French speaker is desired
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong IT skills including MS Excel and preferably SAP experience
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills
• Ability to work well under pressure, resilient, can-do attitude
• Proactive and adaptable
• A sense of urgency and ability to be flexible