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Assistant Financial Accountant

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Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Mid level
Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Mid level
The Assistant Financial Accountant role involves performing financial accounting activities including posting journals, assisting with reconciliations, preparing budgets and forecasts, and processing simple settlements in SAP. The position supports the Account to Report team and requires collaboration with Finance Business Partners.
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Job Description

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 Assistant Financial Accountant to join the 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 inter-company 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). 

  • Assist with reconciliations, including IC/IG sales and COGS (Cost of Goods Sold), FinanaceCore confirmations and reconciliations and resolve any issues that are due to system/ transactional gaps and flag these to other Analysts. 

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

  • Process allocations (incl. R&D cost allocation), incl. payroll costs and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) elements based of monthly timesheets, wages & salaries accounting, share-based calculations & reconciliation with HR (Human Resources) incl. superannuation & benefit queries, including monthly PTO (Paid Time Off) Journal Entries. Maintain and report on prepaid balance amounts. 

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

  • Assist with National statistics surveys 

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related discipline

  • 3+ years’ experience in accounting and finance 

  • Experience in global scientific/pharmaceutical industry highly desirable

  • Sound interpersonal skills and ability to influence

  • Effective priority setting and organisation skills

  • High attention to detail

  • Ability to work in a fast paced environment

This role is based out of our Financial Shared Service Centre, Speke, Liverpool.

 

Hybrid role: Office based Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 

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About CSL

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