Clarksons Platou Hiring for Junior Accounts Assistant Job at London, England Full Time

Company Overview

Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on the industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it’s our people that drive success for our clients.

To understand more including day-to-day life at Clarksons, visit us at www.clarkson.com

Division Overview

We offer best-in-class performance for crude oil, clean, and dirty petroleum products – from 25,000 dwt ships carrying refined petroleum products to crude oil tankers over 300,000 dwt. As market leaders in all Deep Sea markets, producers and refiners value our negotiating expertise while oil companies, traders and shipowners rely on our insightful market intelligence to facilitate deals. Discover more at www.clarksons.com/broking

Role Summary

The person in this role will provide fixture entries and create invoices/credit notes in GAIN (our bespoke in-house system) for our Tankers department, as required in accordance with Company procedures.

What you’ll be doing

• Check Shipbroker recaps (contract) to ensure accurate fixture creation in GAIN.

• Check owners/charters invoices for accuracy prior to creating invoices in GAIN.

• Assist with invoice reporting and queries / raising credit notes

• To consistently be aware of and meet deadlines.

• Additional / ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

What we’re looking for

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• are open-minded, embracing of change, driven & enthusiastic, and considerate to others

• act with integrity • are dedicated to excellence

• collaborate & challenge for collective success

Key Skills & Experience

• Interest in accounting (i.e., double entry book-keeping/ prepayments/ accruals would be an advantage but not essential)

• A high degree of numeracy is essential.

• Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy.

• Highly organised and able to prioritise workload in order to meet tight deadlines.

• Self-confident with good communication skills (both written and verbal) and problem-solving skills.

• Needs to be able to work well independently & within a small team (3).

• Able to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

• Computer literate and a quick learner.