Our well-established, highly regarded and award winning Financial Services client, based in Kingston upon Thames, are seeking an experienced Part Qualified Accountant for 3 months to work on a newly created project within the Finance team.

Working closely with the well-regarded, experienced finance team, and working closer with the transactional teams and Finance Manager, you will ideally have worked within a Financial Services business previously and be available at short notice to start this role. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this role will be working from home throughout this assignment.

As an interim Lease Accountant your role will be varied, interesting and also challenging, and will include:Assist with month end process and activities including the lease accounting entries.

Assisting the finance team with month-end processed and activities including the lease accounting entries
Performing daily balance sheet reconciliations
Assisting with the VAT return for all registered entities
Liaising with providers of the lease administration system, building a relationship and working with the IT teams to improve reporting
Checking all payment requests, ensuring adequate documentation
Control accounting
Preparing and checking settlements as well as part settlements and variation calculations
Maintaining fixed asset register and movement in work in progress
Accruals and prepayments

Ideally you will come from a similar Leasing background, within the Financial Services industry and be able to add value to this established team.

The ideal profile of this Lease Accountant will include:

Previous experience of working in a similar Lease Accounting role
Qualified/Part Qualified in ACA or ACCA
Knowledge of working within the Leasing and Financial Services industry
Advanced excel skills
Strong financial accounting experience
Enthusiastic, proactive, flexible and accurate

Please do get in touch for more information on this role and my client can move very quickly with interviews and on-boarding. You must be available at fairly short notice to start this role and be able to work from home. Full training on their in-house systems will of course be given!

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Lease Accountant - 3 month contract - Financial Services