Senior Accountant

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.

This role will be part of the Record to Report (R2R) team The team is responsible for the preparation of the monthly management accounts for the Group, ensuring all accounting transactions are posted accurately and ensuring all balance sheet reconciliations are prepared accurately and on a timely basis. The key customer for this role is the Commercial Finance team (based in the UK) who will collaborate with the R2R basis to ensure the monthly management accounts reflect the accurate financial position of the Group.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Preparation of accurate monthly management P&L accounts by function - Revenue, Marketing, Employee costs, Product, IT Development, IT, Events, Editorial, Overheads.
• Ensure capital and exceptional expenditure is recorded accurately and in accordance with the Group’s finance policies.
• Monthly preparation of accruals schedules by function
• Monthly preparation of prepayment schedules by function
• Monthly reconciliation of revenue recognised
• Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Posting of journals requested by Commercial Finance
• Monthly preparation of balance sheet risk & opportunities schedule
• Ensuring frequent and timely communication with the Commercial Finance team on the above
• Supporting the Group Finance team through the Group audit by the timely preparation of audit schedules and samples

KEY INTERFACES

• Commercial Finance team
• Group Finance team
• External auditors
• Group Financial Operations team

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Experience

• At least 1 years’ experience in a similar role
• Qualified accountant

Desirable

• NetSuite ERP experience

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong attention to detail
• Good knowledge of excel
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to build relationships with other team members and departments
• Able to resolve queries in a timely manner
• The ability to work to targets, achieving objectives and meeting strict deadlines
• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written
• Previous experience in payroll accounting would be an advantage.

Behaviours and Characteristics

• Enthusiastic, proactive and keen to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Passionate about the continuous improvement of processes
• Demonstrate an appropriate level of professional scepticism to ensure complete and accurate delivery of financial information
• Results, deadline and quality driven.
• Use own initiative to identify problems and deliver solutions to meet deadlines
• Confidence and desire to take responsibility for deliverables
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong time management skills and the ability to meet and/or exceed deadlines.
• Ability to manage conflict, complexity and challenging targets.

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common - and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

You’ve read a little about us - now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.