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You are possibility.\nJob Summary\nAccounting and Reconciliation Management: Perform accounting-related tasks and reporting, ensure reconciliations are completed | Financial Governance, Reporting and Control Audit Support: Provide support to auditing activitiesJob Description\nLiaise with the FDS team to ensure that all product and segmental information is reported correctly\nResponsible to ensure that all mapping and exco codes are correctly feeding into Analyst to ensure that we have no issues on consolidation into group\nResponsible to ensure that all quarterly reporting on HFM or other relevant reporting platforms is done in within the given deadlines\nResponsible for the reconciliation of intercompany balances and clearance of these on the new compass system\nPreparation of statutory financial statements using fast financials or other applicable tools in good time to expected standard to facilitate early sign off of financial statements \nAnalytical review on both the income statement and balance sheet on a monthly basis which should form the basis of the commentary pack which is sent back to regional FC team\n general tax compliance work - 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