Job Description

• Responsibilities:
   
• Month end close activities for UK Legal entity including revenue recognition, accruals and prepayments, SG&A areas and inventory valuation
• Oversee standard costing, variance reporting and stock reconciliation and valuation
• Oversee customer rebates process
• Support the FP&A team with their work on Manufacturing productivity
• Key contributor to audit, statutory accounts and corporation tax compliance.
• Ensuring the overall accuracy of the accounting for manufacturing and SG&A in SAP
• Oversee accounting for production and overhead activities:

• Maintenance of standard costs including setting appropriate activity rates and overhead percentages
  o Ensuring adequate financial control over stock
  o Timely month end close for stock
  o Calculation of stock provisions
   
• Lease accounting under IFRS16
• Oversee revenue recognition process:

• Ensure processes for recording and paying rebates are robust
  o Make month end postings for deferred revenue
   
• Group Reporting using SAP/Hyperion:

• Posting journals relating to certain cost types
  o General review of numbers, including participation in finance team month end results review meeting with the EMEA CFO
  o Preparing supplementary schedules for the UK
  o Relevant balance sheet reconciliations
   
• Audit, tax compliance and preparation of statutory accounts

• assist in preparing for audit
  o prepare statutory accounts
  o assist with corporation tax compliance
   
• Investigate queries on the actual number raised by the FP&A team
• Other activities as directed by the UK Finance Manager

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Profile:

 

• Ability to understand complex accounting concepts, particularly marginal costing vs full recovery
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to challenge perceived wisdom
• A qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) with strong accounting experience.
• Experience of accounting in a complex manufacturing environment would be very beneficial as would experience working with SAP
• Ability to work accurately to tight deadlines
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with ability to influence stakeholders up to middle management
• Excellent data manipulation skills, including advance use of MS Excel and ability to extract and manipulate data from various systems.
• Comfortable adopting a flexible approach needed for the team to meet tight month end deadlines

Able to explain the overall performance whilst maintaining a thorough understanding of the detail