About Javelin
Javelin Global Commodities is a leading global commodities marketing, trading, logistics services and investment firm with head offices in London and wider global offices in New York, Dallas, San Diego, St Louis, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, Dubai, India, Singapore, China and Australia. Javelin was founded in 2015 and now operates across 100 countries and six continents with respect to more than 20 different commodities across thermal coal, metallurgical coal, iron ore, steel scrap, metals, hydrocarbons, freight, agriculture, and renewables.
Established in 2015, Javelin employs over 200 people and is a unique place to grow your career. We take pride in our values, global reach, meritocratic culture and strong work ethic. Our success over the years has been built on our guiding principles of customer service, creativity, transparency, integrity, and responsibility.
Whilst our footprint grows, we still foster a small-company atmosphere. We have a flat company structure and encourage collaboration across all seniority levels, teams and locations to generate the best ideas. Javelin has a dedicated strategy to support local and meaningful charities through volunteer days, donation matching, a ‘give as you earn’ scheme and other fundraising activities. We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and organise various social evenings, sports clubs and lunchtime activities. Our London office has on-site gym facilities and a golf/sports simulator. Discover more at http://www.javelincommodities.com/.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our fun and growing business within Javelin’s Accounting team reporting into the Head of Accounting. This is a team of twelve employees who form part of the wider Finance department that includes Tax, Risk and Trade Finance, all reporting into the CRO and CFO. The Systems Accountant is responsible for maintaining and improving the accounting and financial systems of the organization. This role involves collaborating with various departments to ensure the accuracy of financial data, optimizing systems for reporting and analysis, and providing Workday support for the business.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Manage, support and enhance the Workday Financials environment the organisation's financial systems ensuring data integrity and compliance with accounting standards.
- Conduct regular audits to monitor and evaluate system performance, compliance with policies and procedures and recommending upgrades and improvements as necessary.
- Collaborate with the business and other Workday SMEs to drive process improvements, optimisation and transformation initiatives.
- Act as a subject matter expert on Workday Financials and provide training and support to the business.
- Assist in the development of standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to financial systems.
- Configure, test, validate and implement workday business process changes.
- Design maintain and optimise system configurations.
- Support workday releases.
Requirements
Skills and Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or related field
- Strong experience of owning & configuring workday financials, including; Revenue, Accounting, Spend & Tax
- Workday Financials certifications (desirable)
- Ability to design custom reports, calculated fields, condition rules
- Experience with maintaining Workday tenant security across functional areas
- Excellent team player who demonstrates a collaborative approach
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- A self-starter who is capable of using their initiative to anticipate the information needs of the business
- Ability to interpret complex financial data and prepare comprehensive reports
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- 25 days holiday
- Company pension scheme (10% company contribution)
- Private medical scheme with a range of additional wellbeing benefits
- Travel insurance
- Income protection
- Life insurance (5x salary)
- Bike2Work scheme including secure storage and showers
- Season ticket loan
- Onsite gym
Javelin Global Commodities London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
