French Speaking Financial Accountant
City of London, London
French Speaking Financial Accountant
- Permanent
City of London, London
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Start your job searchAn opportunity for a french speaking junior accountant to join one of the world's largest independent financial advisory groups.
To provide assistance to the group financial reporting and consolidation team. This comprises 4 experienced accounting professionals, whose primary responsibility is quarterly, half yearly and annual external financial reporting for a French-listed/ regulated financial services group.
Regular reporting
- Assist with drafting, editing, reviewing and proof-reading the Group Finance team's publications in French. Text is usually prepared in English, so translation to French is important.
- Produce working papers to support the production of the consolidated financial statements and the linked reports for the Board pack (including notes and appendices). These are produced based on FAST modelling principles, to reduce errors, and aid review and common working.
- Collect and consolidate 'audit trails' (Excel documents that collect extra information from selected subsidiaries about their consolidation packages).
- For specified notes, prepare financial accounts data and analysis, including obtaining an understanding of the data and movements.
Other challenges
- Undertake detailed technical analysis when required, for example on French reporting requirements from the AMF, ANC and benchmarked competitors.
- Form a good working relationship with key accountants in the Group, especially francophone ones, and assist/ develop under-performing ones. This may involve travel.
- Assist accountants around the world with the Group's share schemes, including maintaining models to help them calculate correct accounting entries.
Ongoing development
- Proactively identifying process improvements and solutions, for example to improve the efficiency of the audit trails procedure.
Requirements of the Financial Accountant:
- Strong academics: Programme grande école or equivalent
- Major in accounting/ audit or experience as an auditor is desirable
- Ability to write and edit native-level French to the level where it can be published in the Group's annual report (there will be a language test as part of the interviewing process)
- Business-level English, spoken and written
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