Job - Junior Manager, Financial Reporting

Job Title: Junior Manager, Financial Reporting

About the Function:  

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We’re part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we’re utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to advise our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future — no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we’ll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

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Role Responsibilities:

• Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes

• Ensure that management and statutory reporting is completed

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• Perform reconciliations

• Preparation and posting of journals  

• Give ideas, energy, enthuspassionupport to the continuous

• improvement of the financial and operational process

Leadership Responsibilities

• Executional perfection – should prepare reports and provide

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• Challenge to improve – should focus on improvement opportunities by positively challenging existing forms and ways of working

• Control focus – a controlling approach is inevitable togivee to the design and operation of our control environment

• Positive intent and personal impact – interact with various departments with a positive outlook when looking for solutions.

• Has the self-confidence to present own ideas and convince other in a motivating way.

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Top 3-5 Accountabilities:

• Posting interest accruals and support interest accruals calculation

• Perform GL reconciliations, BS analysis

• Treasury and Holding business knowlege will be the added advantage to this role.

• Well prepare for external and internal audit (both group and statutory)

• Active involvement in fixed asset, accrual area.

• Update annual statutory reports (BS, CF, PL and appendix).

·       Responsible for daily operational accounting and financial activities. Solves arising issues, liaises with collaborators and with other financial colleagues totacklee specific issues.

·       Participate to the month-end close, BFC reporting and reconciliation process in accordance with the agreed internal and group timetable. Ensure the completeness and the accuracy of financial records.

·       Working closely with other in-house and local financial teams (Commercial Finance, Costing, BPM, FP&R, Compliance, Cash Cycle, Treasury, Tax, etc…)

·       Liaise with outsource providers and actively participate on the captive migration RTR project.

·       Driving issue resolution, pro-actively seek out better ways of doing things and drive implementation of “simpler, faster, better” processes and ways of working.

·       Proactively suggests improvements/additional control points to build in and takes an active part in operational improvement projects, in implementation and in the follow up.

Experience / skills required:

·       Graduate in Finance or Accounting

·       6-8 years experience in Accounting, technical accounting skills is required

·       Financial Reporting (end to end view of Financial Statement Preparation)

·       Legal entity controllership

·       Collaborators management

·       Process Expertise and improvement

·       Capable of working in a deadline driven environment.

·       Experience of working in a multi-national SSC environment

·       Has customer focus to be able to build excellent relationships with relevant internal and external customers

·       Hard working personality, flexibility

·       International (part) qualification (IAS/UK/US GAAP) is an advantage.

·       Must have knowledge & experience of Treasury accounting and RTR Reporting.

Language skills

·       Good business English, able to communicate optimally

PC skills/System knowledge

·       MS applications

·       Proven experience with SAP FI /CO modules

·       Strong Excel knowledge

Barriers to Success in Role (Optional):

• Inability to work as part of a team

• Lack of communication and language knowledge skills

• Lack of positive demeanour

• Lack of personal motivation/drive

• Insufficiently open-minded and not flexible

• Not willing to take ownership

Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.

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Diversity statement: Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We accept diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, approaches, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. 

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