Management Accountant

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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