Location: Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Job Purpose:
As Senior Financial Accountant, you will work alongside the Financial Controller in the collation and processing of month-end information to facilitate financial reporting, compliance, and controls in accordance with the financial month-end reporting timetable. You will support the Overseas Offices across the Eastern Hemisphere to ensure the monthly consolidation for EH, including taxation and audit compliance. This role includes regular communication with global partners and all levels and departments of the business internally, as well as support to the VP Finance & Shared Services for information requests.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Involved in the day-to-day finance operations in the UK office, maintaining and implementing all necessary controls and processes to ensure compliance with legislation, including being the first point of contact with external auditors.
2. Taxation: ensuring all taxes are accurately calculated, recorded, and paid, along with upholding necessary filings including Payroll Taxes, VAT, and Corporate Taxes.
3. Reconciliation of sales (Sage - BI - Longview), stock & goods received not invoiced (GRNI), and all other balance sheet codes. Analyze data and provide explanations for any significant variances.
4. Involvement in future changes for financial reporting systems upgrade and conversion from Sage to SAP.
5. Sales and gross margin analytical review and reporting, with support for Regional Director(s) as necessary across the EH.
6. Liaising with internal and external parties for all matters concerning: Legal, HR, insurance renewals, car leasing, operating costs, and expenses management, GDPR, including general monthly administrative support, control, and analysis for expenditure of legal, pensions, and other professional fees, along with monitoring against budget.
7. Ensure Tensar UK month-end is completed on time and in full, reporting into the EH consolidation which feeds into the CMC consolidation. Closing subledgers and general ledger in Sage, analyzing final reports, and posting to LV. Managing and maintaining the intercompany balances and preparing month-end reporting statements and reconciliations.
8. Preparation of the UK GAAP statutory financial statements including the main trading companies TIL, TML, TTL, along with roll forwards of the non-trading 13 dormant companies. Knowledge of the conversion of management accounts from US GAAP to FRS 102 would be advantageous.
9. Supplementary audit packs: analysis of the data required to complete the footnotes for the Tensar corporation consolidated financial statements (US), including analysis of capitalized software, intangibles, and operating/capital leases, facilitating the coordination of all EH entities.
10. Management of the team and deputizing in the absence of the Financial Controller or Manager of Cash, AR, and AP. Support/cover for the Treasury, Cash Management, and Banking function which prepares daily, weekly, and monthly forecasting.
11. Assistance as necessary in the collation of the annual budget and monthly forecasting, including operating expense, depreciation, and capital spend. Supporting Financial Controller and Regional Director, Continental Europe with ad hoc analysis as required and assisting with Tensar Corporate and CMC requests for financial queries, making recommendations and processes for controls within a listed company environment (SEC US Stock Exchange).
Education/Qualifications/Skills/Abilities:
1. A levels or equivalent.
2. Professional accounting qualification, CIMA/ACCA/ACA or similar, or part qualified.
3. Previous experience in a similar role including international exposure in accounting and reporting in various foreign currencies, handling currency transactions and foreign bookkeeping.
4. High level of interpersonal skills to enable integration across all levels within the organization and external advisors.
5. International exposure would be beneficial.
6. Knowledge of US GAAP.
7. Strong Excel skills.
8. Proficiency in ERP systems e.g. Sage L 500; implementation experience would be useful.
9. Experience of consolidation packages, ideally Longview or MS Dynamics, would be advantageous.
10. A second foreign European language would be beneficial.
11. Experience within a manufacturing environment would be advantageous.
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