EMEA Financial Accountant

Job Description

Job title:

EMEA Financial Accountant

Department:
Finance

Location:

Fareham, UK

GLS: P03

Working hours:

37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday (onsite 3 days per week)

The Financial Accountant, Global Business Services, Finance EMEA, reporting into the Senior Manager Global Business Services Finance – Southern Central and EE, will be responsible for the preparation of the financial reporting of specific markets.

This role will be the main point of contact for the market financial reporting and audit (both internal and external) and will partner closely with the market Business Controllers, finance & commercial teams, to ensure the integrity, completeness, and accuracy of the financial reporting. This role will also partner with the wider GBS teams, Regional Tax & Treasury, our audit colleagues (both internal & external) and the Global Corporate Controllership organization.

• Working collaboratively with local market finance, ensuring all rebates and customer incentives appropriately reported in financial submission
• Prepare month end revenue and units reconciliation process and load final revenue into EPM via Webforms
• Responsible for Quarterly Revenue recognition and cut off adjustments
• Ownership of the review of month end revenue to ensure recognition is appropriate and in accordance with Company policy and Generally Agreed Accounting Practice (US GAAP)
• Raise the appropriate accounting entries for rebate accruals & revenue returns provisions and ensure necessary adjustments raised by Accounts Receivable
• Process any necessary manual adjustments to revenue in COGNOS to ensure alignment between COGNOS and EPM
• Responsible for the completion of the department operating expenses for local market, including relevant accruals and prepayments

• Work with local market finance to ensure sales teams incentives and marketing activities accurately reflected in the reporting
• Liaise with local market finance team to assess Trade Receivables position and ensure appropriate bad debt provisions are in place in accordance with Corporate policy.
• Prepare monthly reporting and analysis of spend and lead meetings to review final monthly position with local market management
• Liaising with marketing managers to establish appropriate marketing accruals, to reflect current months activities
• Support where necessary, the GBS Accounts Payable team to ensure appropriate coding of costs within the G/L and / or cost-centres where questions arise and correcting entries at source where required.
• Work with payroll accounting team to ensure accurate entries for month end reporting, providing support as appropriate
• Gain working knowledge of all processes that feed into the monthly reporting.
• Complete and load headcount reporting into EPM

• Lead month end review of financial results with local market Business Controllers to ensure accurately reflects current month activities
• Prepare the Financial Reporting information for Corporate in line with deadlines, including relevant variance commentary
• Responsibility for quarterly Corporate certifications
• Provide standardized monthly financial pack to Business Controller
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and support quarterly regional balance sheet reviews for the market
• Own preparation of the monthly balance scorecard, liaising with appropriate finance functions for input
• Responsible for leading SSC quarterly business review with the markets senior leadership team

• Ensure Financial reporting in line with US GAAP, the internal control framework and Corporate Policies
• Central GBS point of contact for market queries
• Working with the Regional Tax & Treasury and local market finance team to assist with information required for Statutory Reporting, audits and local returns
• Working closely with Internal/External Audit to support SOX, location reviews and IPE validation
• Ensuring documentation of financial processes for audit is reviewed quarterly (including Flowcharts and ICMs)
• Responsibility for providing validation documentation for Revenue and Pricing controls requirements
• Responsible for the legal entity budget and forecast for market and submission to Corporate
• Identify and drive continuous improvements for areas of responsibility
• Support, as appropriate, projects supporting the market as well as adhoc GBS financial reporting projects

• Ideally 1-3 years’ accounting experience, preferably within a large…