Job Description:

Job title: FTC Management accountant
Expected term: 12-18 months
3 Days on-site (Weybridge, Surrey)
2 Days WFH
 
Our client is well established in the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on emergency care and rare diseases, the company is a dedicated ally to healthcare providers treating patients with critical conditions.
  
The role is based in offices near Weybridge in Surrey. Current working practices require 3 days a week on-site, 2 days remote. This is subject to change at the company’s discretion, but is currently expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
  
Travel to locations other than to the primary work location is expected to be rare, but where required will be fully reimbursed and will be expected to be within working hours.
  
Broad Overview

• To control the financial ledgers for the company and its subsidiaries.
• To analyse and report on financial data to ensure stakeholders receive timely, accurate and relevant information to enable them to make effective decisions
• To ensure accurate preparation of all statutory and ad hoc reporting requirements
• To maintain key data sources and master data
• To assist in other UK finance matters, where required and as suitable to the role and capacity

Duties and responsibilities will include:
Core finance

• Maintaining reliable and accurate accounting records, including posting month-end adjustments such as accruals, stock adjustments and provisions, prepayments, depreciation and similar
• Preparing or reviewing P&L and balance sheet reconciliations, and other month-end and year-end close reports
• Producing monthly management accounts and supporting analyses, including ad hoc analysis as required
• Preparing and assisting with all statutory reporting requirements including annual reports, corporation tax and VAT returns, national statistics etc
• Acting as primary contact for our client’s audits and tax inspections etc
• Monitoring and maintaining cash balances
• Reviewing payments and sales order requests
• Assistance with budget and forecast preparation

Data management

• Maintaining and reconciling key data sources for commercial Power BI reporting
• Maintaining master data, such as mapping tables, which support the reporting environment
• Other
• Administering key finance systems (e.g. Sage 200, Sicon Approvals, Concur, online banking)
• Assisting with system change activities
• Ad hoc tasks as required.

Team Support

• Line managing the team’s Accounts Clerk, responsible for accounts payable and cash book processing, credit control and similar
• Providing occasional cover, as needed, for Accounts Clerk
• Supporting the wider Weybridge team with finance matters

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR...

• Qualified accountant (ideally ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
• Advanced Excel skills:
• Essential: Very comfortable with core functions such as Pivot Tables, SUMIFS, XLOOKUP etc, text functions, and with working with complex formulas which combine multiple functions to manage large data sets.
• Very desirable: Experience with Power Query and Power Pivot, and advanced functions such as FILTER, SUMPRODUCT etc
• Highly financially and linguistically literate
• Diligent and methodical with good attention to detail
• Commercially aware, and interested in understanding the business
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage different priorities.
• Experience of Sage 200, or with other similar accounting packages (desirable)
• Experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry (desirable)

Key Performance Indicators

• Accuracy and timeliness of management reporting
• Efficiency of audit process, minimising identified misstatements etc
• Quality of relationships with stakeholders

Company Benefits:

• Up to 10% performance-based bonus
• 25 annual leave days plus bank holidays and 3 annual company closure days (to be taken between Christmas and New year)
• Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance
• Life Assurance & Income Protection schemes
• Competitive Pension Scheme
• Hybrid role
• Join a friendly, supportive team
• Excellent opportunity to join a global pharmaceutical company

 
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