Here at Liberty we are looking for a Finance Assistant to support our Finance Manager (Accounting and Control) in the month end process and overall improvement of the control environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the monthly management reporting process for the Liberty Group, ensuring information is produced accurately and on a timely basis, including but not limited to:
• Ownership of the intercompany matrix for the Group, ensuring it is fully reconciled each month end;
• Reconcile the overseas VAT accounts, ensuring information is provided to our outsourced service provider by the required deadlines;
• Maintain the UK companies’ fixed asset registers;
• Business partner with the Payroll department to prepare and post the payroll journal; and
• Perform monthly reconciliations of the payroll balance sheet accounts.
• Own the accounting of Liberty Hong Kong Asia Pacific Limited (small holding entity).
•  Assist with the preparation of statutory accounts for the UK subsidiary companies.
• Assist with ad-hoc audit queries.
• Prepare the UK VAT return on a quarterly basis.
• Submit the confirmation statements via Companies House on an annual basis for each entity.
• Provide information to Grant Thornton to assist with the annual tax returns.
• Business partner with overseas subsidiaries to ensure all information is provided on a monthly basis in conjunction with the month end timetable.
• Perform pension accounting at year end
• Assist the Finance Manager – Accounting and Control with the monthly balance sheet reviews of the wider finance team.
• Provide support on ad hoc projects.
• Provide support to the wider finance team as and when required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Build strong relationships within Finance and the business
• Strong excel, business analytics and ERP systems experience, preferably Microsoft Dynamics AX and M3.
• Organised.  Can plan, prioritise and achieve deadlines
• Team player
• Attention to detail

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate
• ACA or ACCA Trainee