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Overview

Our leading Douglas-based client are a well respected specialist Corporate Service Provider with an expanding portfolio. As they continue to grow, an opportunity has arisen for an Accountant to join their Finance team.

The Account will support the finance team in the performance of the following duties:

• Accurate review of significant volumes of supplier invoices and their correct uploading to the invoice approval system
• Handle and arrange daily supplier payments working with the accounts payable team and advising project teams of payments
• Review ledgers and monthly trial balances and correct posting of refit/project invoices
• Assist in preparing monthly management accounts including actual results to budget, so that significant variances can be explained
• Review project budgets prepared by project managers, including monthly cash spending profile and assist uploading & converting into annual company budgets for review by accounting manager
• Support cash management, including regular updates of project funding requirements based on reports from project managers and actual spending to date
• Support project managers in placing orders, potentially confirming EU VAT treatment
• Review and confirm approval of project invoices to supporting analysis/expenses and supplier contract terms
• Review cost budgets prepared by project managers and assist in identifying costs which can be capitalised at the end of the project
• Prepare / assist preparation of other reports and information requested internally or by clients
• Post monthly foreign exchange revaluations, gains & losses in Quickbooks
• Assist the accounting manager in preparing forecasts of upcoming monthly funding requirements
• Calculate series of bank transfers to move new funds around the business
• Assist the accounting manager in reacting quickly to unexpected requests to arrange funding
• Monthly bookkeeping of expenses from statements obtained from brokers
• Accounting for deferred income and dealing with the brokerage team
• Review Quickbooks and prepare draft monthly TB / results for review by accounting manager
• Support project managers, operational managers and procurement team
• Provide back office and admin support for operational activities of managers, operations finance team (outside of the IOM) and procurement team
• Upload bank payments and bank transfers (Natwest, Capital, RBSI, Centrip cards) by approval cut off time
• Provide cover for payments, commitments/cash analysis, monthly financial reporting within corporate (not client), or other parts of the business

The ideal candidate for the role of Accountant will:

• Have a minimum of 3 years' relevant bookkeeping experience
• Be a art qualified accountant - or commensurate experience
• Experienced using Quickbooks
• Data input and maintaining database records - good level of experience of working with Excel
• Experience of working in a busy office environment
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Flexible and willing to support other team members
• Comfortable speaking across to team members in other fields/locations