Our Finance Global Shared Service Centre based on the CSL Seqirus site in Liverpool (Speke) supports our 3 main businesses: CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor globally and is expanding. As part of this growth we are looking to hire a Senior Financial Reporting Accountant .

This is a new role resulting from CSL’s new Operating Model and the establishment of a Global Accounting Operations Team.

The role is part of the Account to Report team and is responsible for Financial Accounting for one or more Entity to deliver accurate and timely execution of Financial Accounting activities.

This role will perform complex transactions and statutory reporting across the set of entity codes. It also includes support for projects and continuous improvement and liaising with Finance Business Partners for escalations.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to further their finance career in an international environment within an established global company.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and post recurring and standard manual journals, including intercompany entries and topside FinanceCore journals.

• Prepare and post accruals and reclassification entries that do not require discussion or interaction with cost center owners (e.g., utility journals, insurance expense, and payroll corrections, workers compensation & property taxes).

• Perform reconciliations, including from Clarity for CAPEX, IC/IG sales and COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) confirmations and reconciliations.

• Identify reconciliation issues between Clarity, SAP, BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) (Business Planning & Consolidation) and FinanceCore and resolve any issues that are due to system/ transactional gaps.

• Support preparation of entity budgets and forecasts including Profit & Loss, Balance sheet and cashflow statement.

• Prepare and load data from the budgeting & planning tool to the consolidation system for all legal entities.

• Analyse and report on variances between actuals, budget, and forecasts for balance sheets and cash flow.

• Prepare preliminary local statutory report (for major locations) including Trade Creditors reporting, including commentary for operating cashflow preparation and calculation and entry of statutory adjustments.

• Process manual settlements in SAP (outside of RPA process).

• Complete IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) adjustment calculations

• Support for internal and external audit requests, including providing documentation of AP (Accounts Payable) invoices to auditors.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related discipline; MBA or other advanced degree in related field or professional certification (ACA/ACCA/CPA/CMA) required.

• 6+ years’ experience in accounting and finance. Experience in global scientific/pharmaceutical industry highly desirable.

• This role requires several important behavioural competencies to be successful:

  • the ability to think through irregular issues

  • timely decision making and priority setting,

  • strong analytical thinking,

  • organizational agility

  • excellent attention to detail

• The position also requires the ability to build and maintain sound relationships and collaborate effectively with multiple levels and cross functionally with Finance Business Partners and various Finance Centres of Excellence.

Different qualifications or responsibilities may apply based on local legal and/or educational requirements. Refer to local job documentation where applicable.

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