Position: Accounting Manager (Japanese Speaking)
Location: London (1 day a week can be WFH)
Salary: GBP 40K-60K
Hours: 9:00-18:00
Overview:
An Accounting Manager is responsible for overseeing the financial activities of an organization, ensuring compliance with financial regulations, and maintaining strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
This role involves preparing financial statements, handling VAT returns, liaising with regulatory authorities, coordinating audits, managing daily accounting tasks, identifying opportunities for financial efficiency, and
maintaining financial controls.
Key Responsibilities:
• Financial Statements: Prepare and review financial statements to ensure accuracy and
compliance with accounting standards.
• VAT Returns: Manage and submit VAT returns, ensuring timely and accurate filing.
• Regulatory Compliance: Handle filings and communications with regulatory authorities
such as Companies House and HMRC, including annual returns and updates to company
information.
• Audits: Coordinate internal and external audits, ensuring all financial records are accurate
and up-to-date.
• Day-to-Day Accounting: Oversee daily accounting operations, including accounts payable
and receivable, payroll, and general ledger maintenance.
• Administrative tasks: correspondence, filing and maintaining accurate records. Point of
contact for any account queries.
• Financial Efficiency: Identify and implement opportunities for financial efficiency and cost
savings.
• Stakeholder Relationships: Maintain and nurture strong relationships with internal and
external stakeholders, including clients, suppliers, and regulatory bodies.
• Budgets: Develop and manage budgets, providing accurate and comprehensive financial
information to support decision-making.
• Financial Controls: Maintain financial controls, processes, and systems that are in line with
statutory requirements.
• Tax Filing: File and remit taxes and other financial obligations in a timely manner.
• Bank Reconciliation: Reconcile the company’s bank statements and bookkeeping ledgers
regularly.
• Credit Card/Petty Cash Reconciliation: Manage and reconcile credit card statements and
petty cash.
• Technical Accounting Processes: Handle accruals, prepayments, depreciation, and
intercompany transactions.
• Non-Current Assets: Manage depreciation of non-current assets.
• Retail/EC Invoice Postings: Post and reconcile retail and EC invoices.
• Month-End Closing: Support the Financial Controller and CFO in month-end closing
processes, stock takes, and statutory audit preparation.
• Ad-Hoc Tasks: Support ad-hoc tasks and projects as required by the management team.
Qualifications:
• Education: A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Professional Qualification: Holding a qualification such as the Association of Chartered
Certified Accountants (ACCA) would be preferable but not mandatory.
• Experience: Proven experience as an Accounting Manager or in a similar role, with specific
experience in financial statement preparation, VAT returns, regulatory compliance, audits,
and budget management.
• Skills: Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills. Proficiency in accounting
software and Microsoft Office Suite, with advanced knowledge of PivotTables and VLOOKUPs.
• Software Knowledge: Knowledge of Microsoft Navision or Business Central is desirable.
*The company is unable to offer any visa support