Trainee Accountant (French Speaking)

Job description

Pramex International is a cross-border corporate advisory firm, and a subsidiary of Groupe BPCE (Banque Populaires Caisses d’Epargne), France’s second largest banking group.

Through our core service lines, we assist our clients (principally French SMEs and mid-sized businesses) in the formulation and execution of their international development strategy and transactions.

With a global presence across 14 countries, we are the leading French consulting firm for in-country subsidiary management services.

Role overview

The candidate’s main responsibilities and duties include:

• Use of Sage 50 to maintain books and produce trial balance, profit & loss and other reports
• Processing invoices and expenses on Sage 50
• Prepare invoices/credit notes
• Bank reconciliation - reconcile transactions on Sage with bank statements
• Production of monthly/periodic management reports and accounts
• Process monthly payrolls including general payroll queries and related issues
• Prepare HMRC related returns including monthly PAYE/NI submissions and quarterly VAT returns.
• Admin and any other ad-hoc duties as required.

Qualifications and skills

• Studying towards ACCA/ACA/CIMA/AAT qualifications
• Fluent (business level) in both French & English (written & spoken)
• Minimum 1-2 years experience in practice
• Excellent bookkeeping & organisational skills, and attention to detail
• Completely conversant in the use of Sage and Microsoft Office tool
• Experience in the use of QuickBooks and similar accounting solutions would be advantageous
• Provision of any related administrative requirements.

Package

• Competitive salary
• Study support
• Employee benefits (private medical healthcare, pension)