Job Description We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Financial Accountant to join our Hemel Hempstead based Finance team on a permanent (hybrid working) basis. Smiths Detection is a division of Smiths Group Plc, a FTSE 100 Company operating in more than 50 countries and employing over 23,000 people. The business is a world leader in the design and manufacturing of detection equipment into the transportation, military, and other markets. This role is based in the North West Europe (UK, Israel & Ireland) finance team, a circa. £45M external revenue region. This role has a tri-partite focus: 1.Is responsible for the accurate reporting of the Israel company results in the Group’s two separate Oracle consolidation and management reporting systems. 2. Assist with UK monthly reporting and multiple annual tasks. 3. Lead on finance process transformation for the North West Europe finance team. Your mission in this position will be to work closely with Israel team, the external accountants, NW Europe, and Divisional finance teams to deliver high-quality financial and management reporting, financial planning, and analytics with an ultimate objective to improve decision-making, provide valuable insight into business performance and to provide strong financial control environment. This role is ideally positioned for a recently qualified accountant keen to make their move into a FTSE 100 company where opportunity for growth and development is written into our DNA. You will be able to demonstrate your incredible financial accounting and reporting skills, and adept at presenting financial information to a wide and varied stakeholder base. You will also need to be confident and outgoing, relish the opportunity to working as a Business Finance Partner for the Israel Branch, able to understand and challenge results produced by the external accountants and be able to tailor your delivery accordingly. Excellent MS Excel skills are a must. Experience of SAP are a bonus but not essential. Israel Branch Activities Act as Business Finance Partner for the Israel Branch; reviewing and challenging monthly results and reconciliations, completing monthly reporting in the Onyx consolidation systems, confirming monthly revenue forecasts, and completing formal Budget/FQ3 process, liaising with local finance admin and outsourced accountants to complete local statutory & tax filings, review the control environment and ensure accordance with group policies. Point of contact for all interim & year end queries from Divisional finance and external audit teams. Ad hoc UK Financial Activities Assist with preparation of the statutory & tax filings for the UK entities; completing draft statutory accounts in CaseWare, completing the workings for the statutory accounts and ETB, iXBRL coding of the statutory accounts and performing various tax analysis for the preparation of the corporate tax returns by the outsourced provider. Other information gathering & analysis tasks for the NW Europe region as required for items such as the PAYE Settlement Agreement, Transfer Pricing pack, Office of National Statistics reporting and Insurance information submittal process. Document the UK & Israel control environment for the annual Controls Self-Assessment process, ensuring accordance with group policies and completing the Controls Self-Assessment Questionnaire. UK Monthly Reporting Activities Act as primary support for Finance Reporting Manager matters related to UK company financial controls and reporting. Deliver UK month end reporting process ad hoc tasks, such as completing the monthly COPA reconciliation process to allow detailed analysis of results by industry / product / business type. Perform review of selected areas in Onyx consolidation tool for Interims and Year End reporting purposes. Lead contact for UK entity’s audit process for selected areas; providing information and explaining items to external auditors as required. Transformation Support “SAP Zero” roll-out to Israeli and Ireland entities.