Finance Officer

My client is a small to medium-size company within a multinational group.

They help companies and individuals to do customs clearance of goods on import and export, and provide other services in logistics.

Their busy and friendly accounting department is undergoing a project to implement better ways of follow-up and account for VAT & Duties, collected by customs on importing goods by company’s clients.

They are looking for a bright, experienced individual with good analytical, reconciliation and job ownership skills to help with this task.

The office is based near Heathrow Airport next to Hatton Cross underground station

The role responsibilities will include processing (or supervision over processing) HMRC records of movements on CDS (Customs Declaration Service) accounts opened by HMRC for the company.

Reports are requested from HMRC monthly and show monthly movements of amounts taken out by HMRC on goods clearance as well as funds contributed to the account by the company itself and company’s clients as pools (deposits) for future customs clearances.

HMRC records shall be processed and compared with the company records, to ensure amounts paid out on clearance are financed by clients or recovered from clients where the company uses their own funds to pay for customs clearance.

Any discrepancies when comparing HMRC and the company records shall be resolved for different types of clients.

At the end of reporting period the CDS account balance and it’s breakdown by individual clients’ balances to be presented to auditors on annual audit.

Many processes are already in place & performed by the current staff; cooperating with staff, maintaining those processes, improving checks & follow -up with other departments (Sales and IT), developing &improving records keeping and interim mid-year presentation to smooth the workflow will be needed

Initial training & learning from knowledgeable staff will be provided, aiming at the newcomer to take ownership and working further without micromanagement

Superb reconciliation skills are required, as well as the ability to work as part of the team and on your own without close supervision.

Qualifications such as ACCA, SIMA or equivalent will be an advantage.

You shall be able to demonstrate experience in performing reconciliations.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to express yourself in writing, when speaking, and when reconciling figures

Good Excel including pivot

Salary is £35 - 45k depending on relevant experience

Initially this will be a 1 year contract.

After training period, working from home is possible.

Monday - Friday, 9am-5:30pm