Financial Accountant

Position: Financial Accountant

Location: Cayman Islands

About Us

The Maples Group is a global leader in financial services, trusted by many of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, private equity firms, and international corporations.

Our side-by-side financial and legal teams consistently deliver award-winning services to a global client base, offering unrivalled learning and career opportunities to our 2,500 colleagues worldwide.

What’s it like to work here?

We are driven to excel, and collaboration is key to our continued success. We can go further for our clients because we go further for each other too. Our inclusive culture creates an environment where people can be themselves at work while doing their best work. No matter where you work in the Maples Group, you will be part of a global team.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an accomplished Financial Accountant to join our Finance team as part of our financial services business in Grand Cayman.

The Cayman Islands is home to our global headquarters and where the Maples Group first established operations in the 1960s. Since then we have grown to become one of the largest employers in Cayman, where colleagues from all over the world collaborate to deliver best-in-class solutions to clients worldwide. As part of our Cayman team you will:

• responsible for the preparation of variance analysis, balance sheet analysis and supporting schedules, and any relevant analytical review
• collaborate with Finance team in delivering monthly management accounts, year-end audits and annual audited financial statement for multiple legal entities, including stand alone and consolidated structures
• support the shared service team over the review of invoice coding and ensuring adherence to budgets
• participate in intercompany billing cycle, accounts receivable provisioning, and monitoring of all client balances for the respective business units
• involve in annual budgeting and forecasting, as well as various initiatives, projects and ad-hoc analysis

What You Bring

In addition to indisputably high ethical standards and autonomy, the ideal candidate possesses the following:

• The successful candidate will have a university degree in accounting or finance; A professional accounting qualification (CPA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent) would be an asset together with a minimum of 1 to 3 years’ relevant post qualified experience in accounting in industry or audit firms with a leading accountancy practice
• The successful candidate will have excellent time management, proven ability to adhere to strict deadlines, organisational and prioritisation skills as well as excellent communication skills, both verbal and written (fluent written and oral English);
• The position requires the ability to deal with all levels of staff including those in foreign offices.