Trade Accountant

Our client is a well established, sucessful commodity trading and mining company with HQ in Switzerland.

TRADE ACCOUNTANT 100%

Tasks

**The main tasks and responsibilities include**:
Period close
- Execute the month end trade accounting close per profit center based on International Financial Reporting Standards ‘IFRS’
- Review the department’s trial balance for IFRS technical compliance
- Prepare detailed monthly IFRS P/L and working capital reporting
- Reconcile the middle office and trade accounting month end P/L’s and document and explain any breaks
- Review and reconcile department SG&A/overhead reporting
- Review and reconcile department management reporting
- Support regional offices with technical accounting challenges during period close

Intra period close
- In collaboration with the Middle Office, remedy processes leading to prior month P/L reconciliation breaks
- Support the front and middle office including corporate teams with the preparation of ad-hoc departmental financial reports and analysis
- Coordinate the department’s external audit, internal audit and financial governance processes
- Execute departmental financial governance testing
- Maintaining professional and technical accounting, finance and controls knowledge

Structure deals
- In collaboration with the Middle Office, conclude on and document the IFRS accounting treatment for new structured deals in advance of execution

Price curve modelling
- Validate the IFRS compliance of Middle Office price curves

Projects
- Automate manual journal entries to ensure straight through processing to the general ledger
- Review and control the calibration of system generated journal entries
- In collaboration with other trade accounting teams, identify and implement accounting best practice including processes and internal controls

**Requirements**:
**Qualifications and requirements**:

- Background in Accounting with three to five years of trade accounting experience in a commodity trading or financial institution
- Chartered Accounting qualification (CA/CPA/ACCA)
- Working knowledge of commodity trading systems and ERP integration
- Working knowledge of ERP’s, especially SAP FI/Co and BW
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office tools, especially Excel
- Advanced English language ability, both written and spoken
- Keen interest in trading, derivatives, business process automation, internal control, efficiency and improvement
- Holder of a Swiss work permit or CH / EU / EFTA passport holder
- Adaptable, dynamic and organised with a positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Good communicators, that interact well within a team and actively communicate expectations
- Take initiative in resolving issues in a structured methodical manner
- Have a high sense of responsibility and ownership, and are attentive to detail, in a fast moving environment.