Financial Accountant
- Location
- Luxembourg
- Salary
- £37773 - £46167 per annum
- Posted
- 23 Feb 2018
- Closes
- 02 Mar 2018
- Ref
- U19H428
- Contact
- Dominic Davies
- Job Title
- Financial Accountant
- Category
- Construction, Property / Housing
- Experience Levels
- Part Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Financial Accountant - Real Estate. Our Client is a successful property developer and they are known for investing opportunities through management and construction internationally. As the company continues to expand, they are looking for a Financial Accountant to fill in for day to day bookkeeping for their Luxembourg office.
The Role: The suitable candidate will hold the following responsibilities:
- Handling monthly, quarterly and year end closings to ensure timely LUX statutory and IFRS reporting in accordance with corporate deadlines.
- Ensuring that accounting practices comply with LUX GAAP requirements.
- Performing bank reconciliations.
- Uploading invoices and maintaining the invoice register for LUX domiciled companies.
- Processing expense claims and business trip claims and assigns codes in line with internal rules as well as processing payments.
- Recording invoices and preparing batches for posting.
- Resolving accounting queries with the creditors and utility suppliers therefore reconciling them into respective account statements.
- Liaising with external service provider for payroll for the LUX companies and maintaining bank files.
- Verifying items billed against items ordered and received and reconciling differences and collating data for compliance.
- Providing information to external auditor which includes annual audits, transaction audits and tax advisors.
The Person MUST have at least 3-4 years' experience in accounting, ideally from another real estate, development or construction firm along with a degree in accounting and/or finance. They should also have articulate understanding of LUX GAAP/LUX tax as well as IFRS. The candidate should also show that they can overcome challenges which improve methods within the working environment. It will be highly advantageous if the successful person it working towards an accounting qualification such as ACCA or CIMA.
Please note that due to volume we cannot get back to everyone, however every application is looked at and considered and will be held on Trident International's database for review. If you have not heard back from us within 5 working days you should assume your initial application has been unsuccessful, however if suitable roles arise in the future we will make every effort to contact you.