Junior Accountant
The opportunity
As a Junior Accountant at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
In this role you will:
- Assist in the preparation of monthly management accounts; profit and loss account and balance sheet in line with Group set deadlines.
- Ensure all assigned balance sheet reconciliations are completed on a monthly basis.
- Review monthly revenue recognition & work in progress calculations, assisted by Senior Financial Accountant and Manager.
- Detailed understanding of accruals and prepayment accounting
- Tangible and Intangible asset accounting
- Bank Reconciliations
- Management and Statutory account variance analysis
- Detailed understanding of bad debt provisioning or AR reserve
- Preparation of journal entries, data entry, control accounts, reconciliations and review processes by AR & AP staff.
- Review monthly payroll and support the payroll process as required.
- Taking ownership of entities' local Audits (with support from Manager).
- Involvement in finance projects as required.
- VAT reporting.
- Regulatory reporting for specific jurisdictions.
- Supporting the team of accountants on ad hoc tasks and project work
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Minimum 2 years pf work experience in Finance Accounting and Reporting
- Partially qualified accountant with a desire to obtain full professional qualification
- Strong attention to detail
- Have strong problem-solving and excellent verbal & written communication.
- Strive to continually improve and deliver quality.
- Excellent communication and client relationship skills.
- The ideal candidate will be results driven, self-motivated and resourceful.
- Have the ability to multi-task, prioritise and manage change successfully.
- Proficiency in MS Excel is desired, along with excellent analytical skills.
- Happy to work as part of a team of professionals, or independently as required.
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Corporate Services
An extensive range of corporate services expertise is required for an organisation of our scale and reach to be successful, and we have fantastic teams of professionals across a range of functions such as tax and finance, marketing, operations, and people and organisational development. Whether at the earliest stages of your career, or an experienced professional, we are committed to nurturing, supporting, mentoring, and stretching our people, so that you can maximise your potential and meet your career aspirations in your field of expertise.
Life at Linesight
