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About the role:
The Accounting Analyst is based in London and reports to the EMEA Regional Controller. The Accounting team is responsible for ensuring accurate financial reporting, maintaining compliance with accounting standards, and supporting key month-end and year-end close processes.
This is a key role in consolidating, analyzing, and reporting financial performance related to operational expenses, balance sheet reconciliations, and general ledger integrity. The role works closely with the Regional Controller, and the Finance team as well as other cross-functional teams and the S4 Group finance team, to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, support audits, and drive process improvements within the accounting function.
Responsibilities:
- Keep track of expenses and bank reconciliations.
- Reconcile bank statements, accounts payable, and accounts receivable.
- Assist in monthly and quarterly closing processes by ensuring timely and accurate entries and variance analysis.
- Prepare monthly analysis of accounting accounts.
- Prepares and maintains balance sheet; reconciliations of all accounts, accounting controls as provisions, etc.
- Manage Balance Sheet reconciliations and analyze any open items.
- Monitor and collect data from automatic interface processes in Subledgers.
- Ensure that accounting principles, policies, and procedures are followed to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the financial statements
- Support audit processes by preparing documentation and responding to auditor inquiries.
- Ensure reporting requirements and timelines are met.
About you:Essential skills:
- Student of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent.
- Someone who is part qualified would be ideal (i.e ACCA, ACA, CIMA, etc)
- Previous experience of at least 2-3 years in a similar accountant position.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel-Google spreadsheets.
- We are looking for candidates with communication skills, service vocation, great analytical skills, and proactive, and with initiative.
- Proficiency in ERP systems (Netsuite, Quickbook, or similar).
- Strong knowledge of GAAP/IFRS.
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
