Financial Accountant

Location : 5 days on-site at our HQ in Grangemouth

Salary :
Dependent on skills, qualifications and experience

Contract type :
Permanent

A truly global company, INEOS comprises of numerous businesses with sites in countries throughout the world. We also encompass a wide range of consumer brands and sports interests.

Grangemouth remains one of INEOS’ key sites in the UK and is home to world scale manufacturing plants – offering a unique environment in which to grow your skills, knowledge and competencies within the petrochemical sector.

We are engineering a strong future for our site, based on a highly skilled, experienced workforce and a portfolio of essential products that underpin a sustainable, low carbon future for all. We are entrepreneurial. We love to find new ways of doing things. Whether that’s through improving the energy efficiency of our plants, developing new ways of working or delivering on our net zero promises.

And we’re proud to be doing this in Scotland.

We believe in offering our employees true autonomy and empowerment with a working environment that creates the opportunities for all of us to achieve our potential and to have a fulfilling professional career. We’re looking for committed and talented people to join our teams, to realise our ambitions and shape the future.

The Financial Accountant will be responsible for the provision of an accurate and timely financial accounting service for a number of UK-registered companies and component accounting of a Swiss-registered entity, covering transactional accounting, financial control and statutory reporting, ensuring these conform to Group reporting standards. This will be achieved through the direct line management of a small team including a Reporting Accountant and two Finance Assistants.

Key accountabilities

• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of the general ledger across all entities you have responsibility over. This includes implementing and maintaining strong internal controls, reviewing journal entries, and ensuring compliance with accounting policies and standards.
• Lead the timely and accurate completion and review of balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all accounts are substantiated and variances are investigated and resolved.
• Manage the reconciliation of intercompany balances across the group and ensure formal agreements are in place for intercompany transactions.
• Oversee the preparation of statutory financial statements for UK entities, ensuring they are completed in accordance with local GAAP and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate the preparation of corporation tax calculation files, ensuring accuracy and alignment with statutory obligations.
• Act as a key point of contact for external auditors and regulatory bodies, facilitating smooth audit processes by providing timely and accurate information.
• Lead and develop your section of the General Ledger team by providing coaching, training, and performance feedback.
• Manage the preparation of supplementary financial schedules required for entities, supporting group reporting in HFM and periodic compliance.
• Provide expert support in resolving complex financial queries raised by the Consolidation Accountant and Business Unit Controllers. This involves investigating issues, ensuring data integrity, and facilitating accurate group-level reporting and analysis.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for general ledger processes across European and Asian entities within EOP. Share best practices, standardise procedures, and support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and compliance across the group.

Special features

• There will be periods of inconvenience at month-end and year-end to meet INEOS Group deadlines.
• The role has three direct reports and therefore includes people management responsibilities such as objective setting, performance appraisals (mid and full year), performance management and setting individual development plans.

• Fully qualified accountant, or qualified by experience with considerable demonstratable experience
• Ability to line manage effectively, providing appropriate leadership and…