Senior Associate 2

Job Description & Summary

A career within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information.

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)

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