Accountant 1, Corporate Accounting

Job Description

An entry-level accounting position responsible for delivering basic corporate accounting services under supervision. This role focuses on standardized processes and routine financial operations while developing core accounting competencies. The position handles low-complexity clients and tasks within established frameworks, with emphasis on maintaining accurate financial records and supporting basic financial reporting requirements.

Core Responsibilities and Task

  • Prepare financial statements, account reconciliations, and working papers with guidance, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in all accounting transactions
  • Support daily accounting operations by processing transactions, managing assigned mailboxes, performing periodic bookkeeping, and maintaining source documents and records
  • Assist with month-end and year-end closing processes, including data compilation for periodic and annual accounts
  • Support tax/VAT filings, audit queries, and regulatory reporting activities while addressing review comments promptly and escalating complex issues to senior team members
  • Maintain quality standards through self-review of all deliverables, completion of required checklists, and independent resolution of routine accounting queries in accordance with established procedures and risk mitigation efforts

Qualifications

Educational Background:

  • HSC with strong numerical skills studying for ACCA or ACA or equivalent or Degree holder

Professional Experience:

  • Internship or 0–1 years of experience in accounting or bookkeeping

Additional information

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

As a forward-looking business, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.

There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.

Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 5,500+ employees - from 94 nationalities, speaking 41 languages across 25 countries - to each achieve their potential. Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support female managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.

We’re committed to growing long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients' sustainability and success leads to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.


Company description

We’re a leading Investor Services group offering end-to-end services in administration, accounting, reporting, regulatory and compliance needs of the investment sector worldwide.  We employ a global workforce of 5,800+ people across 25 jurisdictions and have assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$750 billion. We work with 13 of the world’s top-15 private equity firms.

Our services are underpinned by a Group-wide commitment to ESG and best-in-class technology including a global data platform and innovative proprietary tools supported by in-house experts. 

Above all, what makes us different is our people. Operating as trusted partners to our clients, we deliver intelligent solutions through a combination of technical expertise and strong relationships based on deep client understanding. 

We’re driven by our Group purpose, to power people and possibilities. 

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