EMEA Finance Manager

Overview

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Job Title: EMEA Finance Manager

Company: Micro Surgical Technology (MST)

Location: Altomed - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Department: Accounting

Reports To: MST Group Chief Financial Officer

Finance Operations

• Prepare financial analysis and reporting
• Ownership of P&L and Balance Sheet responsibility and journaling consisting of:
• Sales ledger & debt management – review of invoices and debt collection
• Payroll – prepare monthly payroll
• Stock – management of stock system
• Fixed assets - financial analysis in support of fixed asset additions and accounting for fixed assets
• Accruals & prepayments
• Leases
• VAT - VAT submission and sales reconciliation

General Ledger & Month End Close

• Lead the month close inclusive of all reporting and forecasting requirements ensuring information is submitted in a timely and accurate manner
• Ownership of P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow and Forecasts
• Improve transactional processes, maintain the general ledgers, simplifying the business and deploying information technology

Reporting & forecasting

• Provide high quality business performance reporting, insight and constructive challenge to facilitate robust commercial and operational decision making
• Manage working capital and cash flow performance, support decision making on investment opportunities, and identify and highlight potential risk to the company’s financial position
• Management of strategic planning, annual budgeting and monthly rolling forecast cycles

Statutory Reporting & Compliance

• Ensure appropriate internal controls are in place and effective
• Support of preparation of the statutory accounts reporting to include at the year end, preparation of corporation tax computations plus other requirements
• Support the external audit providing data requested by them on a timely basis, liaising with other departments and relevant contacts in the organisation
• Support on integration of Altomed into MST and Halma
• Support for transfer pricing analysis and reporting
• Prepare P60s, P11
  
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• Review and authorize staff expenses payments readied by accounts administrator

• Qualified Accountant
• 3-5 years’ experience with a similar position in a similar organisation, preferably in a manufacturing organisation
• Experience supporting accounting for UK and EU entities, local statutory reporting requirements, VAT and cross-border/intercompany processes
• Knowledge of IFRS preferred
• Advanced Excel skills
• Confident, proactive self-starter that can commercially business partner with the team
• Ability to work in a fast pace and changing environment
• Capable of working remotely with various stakeholders
• Good communicator, goal oriented with a high level of ownership