Finance and Accounting Associate

TN United Kingdom; Hook; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in animal health is seeking a Finance and Accounting Associate to join their dynamic team. This entry-level role offers a unique opportunity to support financial reporting and compliance for both UK and Irish legal entities. You will be instrumental in the month-end close process, external reporting, and financial planning, all while working within a diverse and inclusive environment. If you're passionate about finance and eager to grow your skills in a globally recognized organization, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting or equivalent work experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills required.

Responsibilities

• Support month-end close process for UK and Ireland legal entities.
• Assist in external financial reporting and compliance obligations.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Fluency in English

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

SAP

Power BI

Job description

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals! As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights. Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Purpose:

The Finance and Accounting Associate role will be a key member of the Elanco UK finance team. This is an entry level role and will offer the candidate an opportunity to join a high performing, globally recognized finance organization, supporting the highest standards of internal and external financial reporting, controls and compliance for both our UK and Irish legal entities. This is being posted as a fixed duration contract with an initial contract period of 12 months.

The Company recently acquired a manufacturing site which has approximately doubled the size of the UK headcount and increased the scope and complexity of internal and external reporting obligations. We are also in a period of stabilization and integration of systems, processes and controls. Elanco UK is a material component of the Elanco US Listed Group with multiple reporting streams including Manufacturing, IT, Quality, Regulatory, Regional commercial functions and our Commercial sales and marketing division. Our Irish legal entity holds a unique status as a largely intercompany operation holding inventory in many European countries.

Location:

Hook, Hampshire, UK.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:

The focus of this role includes the following:

1. US GAAP accounting: the finance associate will support many aspects of the month end close process for both UK and Ireland legal entities, including ownership of certain general ledger accounts, journal postings, account reconciliations. It will include the preparation of the functional income statement report for monthly finance review.
2. Supporting the monthly accounting for payroll, revenue and gross to net, leases.
3. External financial reporting: supporting the financial statement preparations, GAAP to Stat and annual audit.
4. Other external reporting: supporting the Companies’ compliance with all other financial reporting obligations including but not limited to Payments Reporting, ONS returns, Environmental reporting.
5. Purchase to Pay: supporting the administration of manual and urgent payments, adhoc purchase order requests and liaison with the Elanco shared service centre.
6. The financial associate will support the UK&I financial planning processes during the critical planning cycles and will provide adhoc support to commercial business in evaluating investment decisions.
7. Customer price incentives: analysis of the discount and rebate terms negotiated upon with new and existing customers to determine the commercial effect to Elanco.
8. Working with Elanco’s internal AI capabilities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of reporting and business partnering.

Requirements:

1. Bachelors Degree (or similar) in Finance or Accounting, or equivalent work experience (applications from final-year students are also welcome).
2. Proven analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
3. Ability to work in local/regional/global team environment and communicate effectively with both internal business partners of all levels & disciplines as well as external stakeholders such as auditors and tax authorities.
4. Strong Microsoft experience in Word, PowerPoint and highly proficient in Excel.
5. Fluency in English language.

Additional Skills / Preferences:

1. Experience of SAP/ Power BI.

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.