Financial & Reporting Accountant

CSL Seqirus; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

CSL Seqirus in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced accounting professional to coordinate and deliver close activities, post standard journals and perform balance sheet reviews with escalation of complex items. You will manage interfaces, ERP reconciliations, and internal controls while supporting audits and IFRS/local GAAP reporting.

Strong Excel and SAP skills are essential, with 3+ years in controllership or financial reporting.

Qualifications

• 3+ years' relevant experience in a controllership, financial reporting role, audit.
• Proficient in financial statement production and ownership.
• Proficient in MS Office (particularly Excel).
• Proficient in the use of financial systems (SAP).

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and deliver assigned accounting and close activities in accordance with close calendars, company policy and local statutory requirements, including preparation of standard journals, balance sheet reconciliations and review of business journals, with escalation of complex or non-standard items as required
• Manage any local electronic interfaces (if applicable) and deal with related activities including daily management of sales and vendor invoices, dealing with issues in process flow and coordinating all necessary enhancement activities and projects
• Drive the implementation and operation of the internal financial controls framework
• Support internal audit activities and implementation of identified remediations
• Coordinate external audit activities at entity level, ensuring timely provision of requested documentation, tracking audit requests, and escalating significant judgement areas, disagreements or delays to the Accounting to Report Manager in line with governance protocols
• Apply technical accounting knowledge to support entity-level reporting and close activities, identifying areas requiring interpretation or judgement and escalating technical conclusions for review and approval where appropriate
• Deliver assigned month-end close activities in line with the group close timetable, including ERP reconciliations and variance analysis, flagging risks, delays or exceptions early and escalating as required.
• Ensuring compliance with local financial regulations and tax laws of their respective countries/entities, as well as company policies and standard
• Support accounting operations functions outside of account to report where required (accounts payable, tax, treasury) ensuring compliance with local regulations in given areas.
• Identify process efficiency or control improvement opportunities arising from close execution and day-to-day accounting delivery, providing recommendations and impact assessments.
• Balance sheet planning working with financial business partners and financial planning and analysis teams to ensure creation of balance sheet for indirect cashflow. Submission of entity planning to group consolidation (ERP).Professional certification in finance or accounting (IFRS and local GAAP accreditation)

Skills

Financial reporting

MS Excel

IFRS & GAAP

Enterprise systems (SAP)

Education

IFRS and local GAAP accreditation

Tools

SAP

Job description

• Coordinate and deliver assigned accounting and close activities in accordance with close calendars, company policy and local statutory requirements, including preparation of standard journals, balance sheet reconciliations and review of business journals, with escalation of complex or non-standard items as required
• Manage any local electronic interfaces (if applicable) and deal with related activities including daily management of sales and vendor invoices, dealing with issues in process flow and coordinating all necessary enhancement activities and projects
• Drive the implementation and operation of the internal financial controls framework
• Support internal audit activities and implementation of identified remediations
• Coordinate external audit activities at entity level, ensuring timely provision of requested documentation, tracking audit requests, and escalating significant judgement areas, disagreements or delays to the Accounting to Report Manager in line with governance protocols
• Apply technical accounting knowledge to support entity-level reporting and close activities, identifying areas requiring interpretation or judgement and escalating technical conclusions for review and approval where appropriate
• Deliver assigned month-end close activities in line with the group close timetable, including ERP reconciliations and variance analysis, flagging risks, delays or exceptions early and escalating as required.
• Ensuring compliance with local financial regulations and tax laws of their respective countries/entities, as well as company policies and standard
• Support accounting operations functions outside of account to report where required (accounts payable, tax, treasury) ensuring compliance with local regulations in given areas.
• Identify process efficiency or control improvement opportunities arising from close execution and day-to-day accounting delivery, providing recommendations and impact assessments.
• Balance sheet planning working with financial business partners and financial planning and analysis teams to ensure creation of balance sheet for indirect cashflow. Submission of entity planning to group consolidation (ERP).Professional certification in finance or accounting (IFRS and local GAAP accreditation)

Experience Requirements

• 3+ years' relevant experience in a controllership, financial reporting role, audit
• Proficient in financial statement production and ownership
• Proficient in MS Office (particularly Excel)
• Proficient in the use of financial systems (SAP)

CSL Seqirus is part of CSL. As one of the largest influenza vaccine providers in the world, CSL Seqirus is a major contributor to the prevention of influenza globally and a transcontinental partner in pandemic preparedness. With state-of-the-art production facilities in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, CSL Seqirus utilizes egg, cell and adjuvant technologies to offer a broad portfolio of differentiated influenza vaccines in more than 20 countries around the world.