Accounting Assistant

Job Title:

Accounting Assistant - Legal Entity Control department

About the Role:

The LEC team provides all financial reporting activities for legal entities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This includes statutory, Sarbanes Oxley and Public Company attestations and all other financial reporting. Liaising with Group reporting in the USA, and other functional departments (Tax, Treasury, Product Control, Operations and Legal) both locally and globally.

The aim is to ensure that the individual can make an important contribution to the continued development of the Legal Entity Control team, the Finance function in all non-US locations, raising the bar in terms of quality, control and consistency.

This role is a core part of that team and a liaising with colleagues across those and other functions.

Key responsibilities:

• Trial balance review, understand and explain variances.
• Assist month end process, prepare and post journal entries.
• Support review of Balance Sheet substantiations and flag issues to LEC manager/senior team members
• Support review of inter-company break report and analyse the causes of variances.
• Assist review of cash break report and help facilitate/clear breaks for responsible entities.
• Contribute preparing audit schedule for external auditors.
• Ad hoc project work.

Skills / Experience Required:

The ideal candidate should be able to demonstrate:

• A strong academic background and good grades
• Graduate - Preferably from an accounting and finance or economics background or / Part qualified (ACA, ACCA, CMA)/ Qualified AAT
• Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with professionals throughout the organisation.
• Have excellent organisational skills and to ensure the team meets its objectives and deadlines.
• Possess a pro-active attitude with an ability to take responsibility

Technical Skills:

• MS Office: advanced use of Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Strong analytical and numeracy skills
• Oracle Financials /Hyperion Essbase (would be advantageous)

Personal attributes:

• A self-starter with a flexible approach, adaptable to new situations and who has the ability to learn quickly and think in a strategic manner.
• Good attention to detail
• Articulates both written and spoken messages clearly and confidently.
• Proactive and able to work well under pressure.
• The ability to build and develop strong relationships with stakeholders i.e. Corporate Accounting, Fx Control, Tax, BR Control, Operations and support are

Company Overview

• BGC is a leading global brokerage and financial services company serving institutional clients across the financial markets. Through our extensive network of market professionals and technology platforms, we provide trade execution, broker-dealer services, market data, and analytics solutions across a broad range of asset classes.
• The benefit of BGC’s integrated platform is that it gives customers flexibility and choice in price discovery, execution, and processing of their transactions through voice, hybrid, or fully electronic brokerage solutions. In addition, our BGC Trader and BGC Market Data platforms provide market data, analytics, and technology solutions that support clients in navigating increasingly complex markets.
• Looking ahead, we continue to invest in our people, processes, and technology to strengthen our capabilities and support future growth.

Job Location:

• Warsaw, Poland
• Hybrid model (onsite 3 days per week)

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