Key role responsibilities include:

• Working and collaborating with Group and European Finance teams
• Managing the production of monthly management accounts and supporting schedules for UK and European subsidiaries.
• Monthly consolidation of European companies across multiple divisions for both local and group reporting.
• Managing the preparation of monthly project costing, recharges, capex spend and comparison to budget with variance analysis.
• Ensuring monthly reconciliation of all intercompany activity
• Responsible for financial reporting of inventory
• Preparing weekly cashflows for the group
• Compiling budget information from UK and European subsidiaries and creating local and regional budgets.
• Managing annual audit process
• Ensuring timely filing of local tax and statutory requirements like VAT filing, Corporation tax, intrastate reporting, confirmation statements etc.
• Ensuring compliance with financial internal controls
• Identifying and driving process improvements through automation and standardisation of reporting.
• Managing inter-company recharges following transfer pricing guidelines.

Person Specification:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with at least 2-3 years’ experience in a similar position.
• Experience of working with an inventory based businesses including warehousing and distribution.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail with an ability to organise and work with large volumes of data.
• Excellent / Expert presentation and MS Excel skills.
• Strong inter-personal, communication and influencing skills and ability to build strong stakeholder relationships.
• Integration and change management experience
• Merger and Acquisition experience
• Experience of working in matrix structure and managing international multi-site teams.
• Experience in risk management, internal controls, and business process reengineering.
• Ability to lead and train the teams.

Think Accountancy and Finance is the finance division of Think Specialist Recruitment, an independent recruitment agency based in Hemel Hempstead and working across the Herts, Beds and Bucks area. We specialise in permanent, temporary and contract recruitment with areas of expertise including: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Finance Admin, Part Qualified Finance, Qualified Finance, Credit Control and Bookkeepers.

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