Senior Financial & Reporting Accountant (Hybrid)

CSL Vifor; West Kirby; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

CSL Vifor in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Reporting Accountant to coordinate and deliver defined accounting and close activities across a cluster of countries, ensuring alignment with group policies, governance requirements and close timetables. You will support management and statutory accounts and escalate complex issues as needed.

The role collaborates with local accounting teams, drives internal controls, supports audits, and ensures compliant accounting processes and efficient

Qualifications

• 3+ years' relevant experience in a controllership, financial reporting role, audit.
• Proficient in financial statement production and ownership.
• Proficient in MS Office (especially 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 local electronic interfaces and daily management of invoices, issues in process flow and coordinate enhancement activities and projects.
• Drive the implementation and operation of the internal financial controls framework.
• Support internal audit activities and remediation implementations.
• Coordinate external audit activities at entity level, ensuring timely provision of requested documentation and escalation of significant issues to management.
• Apply technical accounting knowledge to support entity-level reporting and close activities, escalating where needed.
• Deliver month-end close activities in line with group timetable, including ERP reconciliations and variance analyses.
• Ensuring compliance with local financial regulations and tax laws of their respective countries/entities, as well as company policies.
• Support accounting operations functions outside of account to report where required (accounts payable, tax, treasury).
• Identify process efficiency or control improvement opportunities arising from close execution and day-to-day accounting delivery.
• Balance sheet planning with FP&A for indirect cashflow; submission of entity planning to group consolidation (ERP).

Skills

Financial reporting

Audit

MS Office

Education

IFRS and local GAAP accreditation

Tools

SAP

Job description

CSL Vifor in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Reporting Accountant to coordinate and deliver defined accounting and close activities across a cluster of countries, ensuring alignment with group policies, governance requirements and close timetables. You will support management and statutory accounts and escalate complex issues as needed.

The role collaborates with local accounting teams, drives internal controls, supports audits, and ensures compliant accounting processes and efficient