Senior Financial Accountant

Senior Financial Accountant

Department: Corporate Services 

Team: Finance

Location: London (hybrid working)

Position type: Fixed Term contract until April 2025 (unable to offer any VISA sponsorships)

What the hiring manager says

We’re looking for a skilled and proactive accountant who can take ownership of financial processes in a fast-paced, global environment. You’ll play a key role in month-end and year-end close, reconciliations, and statutory reporting, ensuring compliance with the latest accounting standards. Beyond technical expertise, we value someone who can identify process improvements, drive automation, and collaborate effectively across teams. If you’re detail-oriented, thrive on problem-solving, and have a passion for continuous improvement, we’d love to hear from you!  Suriani Hulbert

Key responsibilities:

• Month-end and year-end close tasks.

• Monthly/quarterly accounting and reconciliations of your responsible entities.

• Review of multi-currency payroll and preparation of monthly journals.

• Follow accounting treatments to ensure compliance with the latest statutory requirements and accounting guidance.

• Assist with the annual group audit and local audits.

• Processing bank payments.

• Ad hoc tasks as assigned including participation in Finance projects.

• Maintain and enhance reconciliation processes, ensuring the efficiency and accuracy of financial records.

• Prepare the regional annual statutory accounts accurately under the relevant GAAP.

• Ensure any differences in local GAAP and Group GAAP are tracked in control manner.

• Identify and implement opportunities to streamline accounting processes and improve financial systems.

• Support and lead automation initiatives, including system enhancements to reduce manual tasks and increase data accuracy.

• Act as a subject matter expert, offering training and support on complex accounting issues.

• Support the preparation and filing of corporate tax returns, VAT, and other statutory requirements.

• Provide insights and support to minimize tax liabilities and ensure compliance with local regulations.

About you

Fully or part qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with five-year experience in Accountant role. You had exposure to a multi-currency environment in a global business. The ideal will also demonstrate:

• Proven ability to work independently, taking ownership of tasks and effectively handling complex situations with minimal guidance.

• A track record of success in managing workload effectively in a fast-paced environment, ensuring deadlines are consistently met.

• Strong accounting knowledge with substantial experience in statutory financial reporting and audit.

• Exceptional attention to detail and a clear ability to prioritise and balance a variety of tasks and responsibilities.

• Proficiency in Excel, with intermediate to advanced knowledge of its tools and functions.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a strong commitment to teamwork and collaboration.

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What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.

Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

Passionately driven

We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.

Insightful leaders

We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.

Stronger together

We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.