Accountant - Group Reporting

About Javelin 

Javelin Global Commodities is a leading global commodities marketing, trading, logistics services and investment firm with head offices in London and wider global offices in New York, Dallas, San Diego, St Louis, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, Dubai, India, Singapore, China and Australia. Javelin was founded in 2015 and now operates across six continents with respect to more than 20 different commodities across thermal coal, metallurgical coal, iron ore, steel scrap, metals, hydrocarbons, freight, agriculture, and renewables.

Established in 2015, Javelin employs over 200 people and is a unique place to grow your career. We take pride in our values, global reach, meritocratic culture and strong work ethic. Our success over the years has been built on our guiding principles of customer service, creativity, transparency, integrity, and responsibility.

Whilst our footprint grows, we still foster a small-company atmosphere. We have a flat company structure and encourage collaboration across all seniority levels, teams and locations to generate the best ideas. Javelin has a dedicated strategy to support local and meaningful charities through volunteer days, donation matching, a ‘give as you earn’ scheme and other fundraising activities. We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and organise various social evenings, sports clubs and lunchtime activities. Our London office has on-site gym facilities and a golf/sports simulator.

Role

We are seeking a technically strong, commercially minded recently qualified accountant to join our growing team, reporting to the Head of Accounting. This role offers significant exposure to trading activities, group reporting, and process transformation initiatives. The successful candidate will be a confident self-starter who thrives in a collaborative, high-performance team environment and is motivated to drive continuous improvement across finance processes.

Responsibilities

• Month-end close processes across group entities, including preparing detailed reconciliations and liaising with front and middle office to resolve any issues found
• Prepare monthly group reporting packs and ad hoc financial reports for senior executives, stakeholders and board members to inform and aid decision making

• Assist in analysing new or complex transactions and support the design and documentation of appropriate accounting policies and treatments
• Support statutory accounts preparation and coordinate external audit deliverables
• Standardise group reporting templates and enhance documentation of finance processes
• Improve internal controls and ensure robust audit trails across trading activities

Requirements

Qualifications

• ACA / ACCA (recently) qualified (or equivalent)
• Big 4/6 experience desirable but not essential
  

Experience

• Exposure to group reporting and consolidation
• Experience in trading, commodities, or energy is advantageous
• Strong technical knowledge of accounting principles, regulatory standards and efficient financial process
• Experience testing and documenting controls for complex financial processes
  

Personal Attributes

• Self-starter with the confidence to take ownership of deliverables
• Technically strong with excellent attention to detail
• Highly collaborative and comfortable working cross-functionally
• Commercially aware with strong analytical capability
• Proactive mindset with a genuine interest in process improvement
• Clear communicator with the ability to challenge and influence where appropriate

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Company pension scheme (10% company contribution)
• Private medical scheme with a range of additional wellbeing benefits
• Travel insurance
• Income protection
• Life assurance (5x salary)
• Bike2Work scheme including secure storage and showers
• Season ticket loan
• Onsite gym
• Social environment with a breakout area with a golf simulator, darts board and foosball table.