Kent PLC Hiring for ASSISTANT FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT at Mumbai, Maharashtra Full Time

About you: 
Join us. Unleash your energy within. 
If you have world class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We’ve created a new breed of company – future focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector. We respect heritage, talent, hard work and ambition and can offer an environment of truthfulness, optimism, professionalism, and warmth. Are you ready? 

Our values: 
At Kent, we are driven by the energy within every member of our 10,000-strong team. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. We employ and empower the best and let them make decisions. Our values define and drive us every day to be the very best – for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet. 

Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging: 
We recognize that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.  
Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.  

ASSISTANT FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT

This role will be supporting the UK region and will be reporting into the UK based Financial Controller, based in Mumbai. This new role is in the offshored team within the Finance Shared Services function of an international oil & gas consultancy company. 

This position is a fantastic opportunity for the right person to make a positive impact on a dynamic business. 

QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Degree or professional qualification in Accounting or Finance
• At least 4 years of relevant accounting experience
• Preferably a part – qualified CA/CMA
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including use and set-up of Pivot tables and formula like concatenate, v-lookup, etc.
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• Good organization skills and ability to multi-task
• Positive and proactive
• Excellent communication skills at all levels (both written and spoken)
• Ability to work with all levels of management and employees
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines

RESPONSIBILITIES

Month end processes

• Review of Monthly Balance Sheet account reconciliations and analysis of open items and working with various teams across the company to address any issues
• Maintenance and Reconciliation of Fixed Asset Register and Fixed Assets schedule
• Regularizing the reconciling items by posting necessary journal entries.

AP Vendor Process

• Processing of AP invoices and ensuring that all invoices are approved as per group authority matrix 
• Creation and amendments of supplier data
• Facilitation of weekly supplier payment runs and urgent payments (as required).
• BACS payment account reconciliation and post the journals.
• Maintain mailbox dealing with all supplier queries
• Performing supplier statement reconciliations as required

Employee Expense Processing

• Audit employee expense claims to ensure that appropriate documentation has been provided
• Facilitation of employee expense payments

Line management

• Line management of finance executive

Adhoc

• Liaise with Auditors – internal and external and demonstrate governance and controls.
• Adhoc analysis for the Financial Controller