Management Accountant - Atom Recruitment Ltd. : Job Details

Our Client is part of a growing international specialty pharmaceutical group. They develop, manufacture and distribute innovative, high-value specialty pharmaceutical products. They are now seeking a Management Accountant. This position is a full-time permanent role which will be office based in Surrey with hybrid working arrangements currently in place and expected to continue on a non-contractual basis for the foreseeable future. (Current working practices require 3 days a week on-site and 2 days remote). The position reports to the Financial Controller, UK

Job Purpose

• To control the financial ledgers of our Client, its holding company and their 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

Key Areas of Responsibility

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
• Supporting the Financial Controller in facilitating audits and HMRC inspections
• Supporting the Financial Controller in monitoring and maintaining cash balances
• 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 WAP, Concur, online banking)
• Assisting with system change activities
• On occasion, providing cover for other finance team members
• Reviewing payments and sales order requests

Qualifications / Experience

• Qualified accountant (ideally ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
• Advanced Excel skills. 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
• Experience with Power Query and Power Pivot, and advanced functions such as FILTER, SUMPRODUCT etc.
• Highly financially and linguistically literate
• Experience of Sage 200, or with other similar accounting packages is desirable
• Experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry is desirable
• 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
• Highly self-motivated

In return our client is offering a competitive package for the successful Candidate including a basic salary of £60,000 per annum plus benefits.

Please send your C.V to Lorraine Roger, Director at Atom Recruitment Ltd.