About Us

nShift is the leading global provider of cloud delivery management solutions (SaaS), we enable the frictionless shipment and return of almost one billion shipments across 190 countries each year. We are headquartered in London and Oslo and have over 500 employees across offices in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Romania.

Our software is used by many of the world leading e-commerce, retail, manufacturing, and 3PL shippers due to us having over 1000 carriers integrated into our platform, nearly 3 times more than our competitors!

If you buy goods online, there is a strong chance that nShift has powered that delivery, so come and join us as we shape the future of shipping, one frictionless journey at a time.

Purpose of Role and Overall Responsibility

As an Assistant Accountant you will be responsible for assisting in the processes of the month end close and reporting across various jurisdictions for our legal entities. The role is extremely varied and will require someone with excellent organisational skills and a diligence to their own work and others.

With your experience and a can-do attitude, you will ensure we are able to provide high quality reporting and as part of an international team, participate in ad-hoc projects and contribute in a high performing finance team across the nShift Group.

About you

You are part or fully qualified AAT/ACA/ACCA/CIMA with at least 3 years of accountancy/finance experience and you are curious, pragmatic, proactive, hands-on, well-organised and able to prioritise and meet multiple deliverables at deadlines.

You have the ability to build relationships with internal staff and external stakeholders with a can-do attitude and always willing to take on extra responsibilities and tasks.

The area of responsibility includes:

• Responsible for timely and accurate month-end close including relevant journal entries, running fixed asset depreciation, accruals, IC transactions and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Timely preparation and submission of VAT/EU Sales List
• Oversee payroll processing and provide timely and accurate personnel cost accounting and reporting to tax/government authorities.
• Accounts Payable - Responsible for sending out vendor bills for approvals and payments.
• Maintenance of bank reconciliations across various banking platforms across the group.
• Preparation of relevant audit deliverables and annual financial statements in local GAAP.
• Support accounting and system-related issues in the Group.
• Communicate with business control, treasury, credit control team and other part of the organization in accounting-related matters
• Ad hoc projects and duties as directed by senior managers

Requirements:

• You are part or fully qualified AAT/ACA/ACCA/CIMA with at least 3 years of accountancy/finance experience.
• You are curious, pragmatic, proactive, hands-on, well-organised and able to prioritise and meet multiple deliverables at deadlines.
• You have the ability to build relationships with internal staff and external stakeholders
• A can-do attitude and always willing to take on extra responsibilities and tasks.

Education, experience and skills

• Part/fully qualified AAT/ACA/ACCA/CIMA
• University degree in Accounting/ Finance / Economics is preferred
• Strong Accounting skills
• 3+ years of relevant job experience
• Previous experience in an international organisation is desirable
• Good excel and systems skills, experience in NetSuite is a plus.
• Fluency in English is a must.

At nShift we believe in embracing diversity in all forms and fostering an inclusive environment for everyone which we believe is essential for our continued success. We're an equal-opportunity employer which means that all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity, or disability status.

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