Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant

Description:

Financial Accountant

Full Job Description I Notes:

Key Responsibilities: The Accountant / Junior Accountant provides financial information to management researching accounting data and preparing reports

Typical activities and responsibilities will include:

• Responsibility for the Accounts payable process, including invoice control, booking of invoices and payments via embanking and Swift
• Management and monitoring of specific internal accounts such as fixed assets, general expenses, depreciation, accruals, pre-payments (including budget vs. actual comparison and IT cost reconciliation)
• Status monitoring of the Bank's Service Level Agreements (SLA), including validation and payment of invoices
• Preparation of selected Group reports and uploading to the bank's shared portal (e.g. fixed assets, deposits, audit, etc.)

Assistance in preparing VAT and regulatory reports to the regulator (e.g. Swiss Federal Tax authority, Swiss National Bank, FINMA)

• Collaboration in various Finance projects

Education: Commercial apprenticeship, degree t e.g._ Buchhalter, Treuhänder or comparable education such as completed studies in economics.

Work Experience: Working experience of at least 2-3 years in the Finance area, preferably in a banking environment with international operations

Performance: Internal candidates: consistent strong performer in current role (Upper L or Expected Performance + at least 2 times in the past 3 cycles).

Specific knowledge and skills:

• Good knowledge of accounting
• Basic knowledge of banking
• Good knowledge of English, German and/or Portuguese would be an advantage
• Experience with Regulatory and VAT reporting would be an advantage
• Ability and interest in working in an international team and environment
• Reliable and exact working attitude