Senior Associate to Accounting Advisory Services

Job Description & Summary

A career within Capital Markets Accounting Advisory Services, will provide you with the opportunity to be responsible for complex financial reporting issues around deals and other transformational events. You’ll tackle client’s needs with a solution oriented approach that creatively addresses complex financial reporting problems for high profile transactions and you’ll have significant interaction with senior company management teams, bankers, lawyers and other advisers.

The job purpose is to coordinate wide range of projects & services in the accounting advisory area.

Requirements

• Higher education, Finance/ Accounting
• ACCA in progress
• More than 3 years of experience in Financial Reporting (Big 4 firms preferable)
• Excellent knowledge of IFRS (including new standards)
• Good report writing skills in both English and Russian with experience in this area
• Focused, disciplined, with good project management skills
• Business development skills preferable

Job responsibilities

Delivering projects and services for external clients with a team of consultants in following areas:

• Accounting advisory (IFRS conversions, application of new IFRS standards, recommendations to accounting policies, transaction accounting including post deal accounting and valuation, carve out financial statements and general support with accounting standards change)
• Capital markets (IPOs, equity and debt offerings and listed company M&A on a range of clients, projects, industries and territories)
• Government accounting (transition from cash accounting to accruals accounting under International Public Sector Accounting Standards (“IPSAS”) and in developing an accounting framework)
• Structuring services (solutions to support a broad range of transactions, including acquisition, divestments, IPOs, Capital Projects, group reorganisations, financial restructuring and strategic alliances)
• Treasury accounting (assisting our financial services clients with the nuances of current IAS 39 principally with respect to derivatives and hedge accounting as well as the complexities associated with the implementation of IFRS 9, with a particular focus on credit impairment)