Responsibilities:

Leading/coordinating and 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)
• Accounting transformation (understanding the clients’ state of accounting functions, ability to put the clients’ processes into clear and structured documents and proposing improvements based on best practices)
• Government accounting (transition from cash accounting to accruals accounting under International Public Sector Accounting Standards (“IPSAS”) and in developing an accounting framework) - optional
• 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 certified
• More than 5 years of experience in Financial Reporting (experience in 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
• Ability to travel to neighbouring countries