Yacht Accountant

I am recruiting for a Yacht Accountant, to work for a Yacht Management company based in their Southampton office.

This role involves delivering expert financial administration, management, and reporting for our clients' yachts. The ideal candidate will have a keen understanding of each yacht's income and expenses, the ability to create budgets, and the capability to provide clear and concise variance analysis to our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for yacht owners, their representatives, captains, and crew members.
• Prepare and deliver regular client reports (monthly/quarterly).
• Develop and manage budgets.
• Maintain and update systems, including cloud-based software.
• Handle frequent administration of invoices and payments, including urgent requests.
• Conduct regular bank, card, and cash reconciliations.
• Manage charter accounting, including charter sales invoices, fiscal representatives, local VAT returns, and other related filings.

• Support other yacht services, including crew employment and payroll.
• Collaborate with the yacht management team to solve problems and offer additional services as needed.
• Assist the corporate accounting function to ensure alignment in financial statement returns and cash flow management.
• Provide operational management services when required.
• Attend conferences and shows as necessary.

• Experience working in the superyacht industry either on-board or shore-based.
• Excellent relationship building skills.
• Willingness to travel to various locations as required.
• Availability to travel to clients and events worldwide.
• Part-qualified in accounting is desirable.