At STADA we pursue our purpose “Caring for people‘s health as a trusted partner” worldwide. Originally founded by pharmacists, we are a leading manufacturer of high-quality pharmaceuticals. More than 12,300 employees around the globe live our values Integrity, Entrepreneurship, Agility and One STADA to achieve ambitious goals and shape the successful future of STADA.

Financial Accountant

Reading | United Kingdom (GB) | Full-time | Permanent 

OBJECTIVE

Ensure that group and statutory reporting requirements are met in a timely and robust manner.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Monthly Reporting Process:

Plan, organise and manage own workload to ensure the company’s monthly financial reporting processes are achieved in a timely and accurate manner, including but not limited to:

• Preparation of stock valuation, and necessary stock provisions, ensuring early identification of stock risks
• Support Commercial Finance colleagues in the preparation of the sales flash for working day one.
• Monitoring of goods received not invoiced account ensuring timely reconciliation
• Preparation of accruals and prepayments
• Maintenance of fixed asset and intangible asset register
• Reconciliation of intercompany balances
• Processing of timesheets for R&D
• Participate strongly in financial reviews, challenging and providing commentary on significant transactions and variances
• Preparation of the balance sheet reconciliations ensuring that all carrying balances are adequately supported
• Covering for the Senior Financial Accountant for Functional Reporting Commentary for actuals and submission to STADA including updating the BI tool.

Statutory Returns

• Ensuring statutory reporting obligations are correctly recorded, reconciled, authorised and submitted in a timely manner:
• Preparation of VAT returns, EC Sales list and intrastat returns, ensuring all information is correctly recorded, reconciled and submitted in a timely manner
• Preparation of National Statistical Office returns
• Assist in the preparation of quarterly and annual VPAG returns
• Provide information required for the preparation of the Corporation Tax returns
• Preparation of the annual P11d and PSA returns
• Assist in the preparation of the statutory accounts

PERSONAL SPECIFICATION (Skills required to perform the job)

Essential:

• Experience of working consistently to tight deadlines, whilst maintaining high level of accuracy
• Challenging and analytical in nature, confident to challenge until underlying reasons are identified
• Ability to work in a team and as an individual
• Able to provide meaningful analysis of data using Excel, able to utilise pivot tables and macros where appropriate.
• Part qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA etc.)
• Must be able to commute to the office in Reading 3x per week (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday

Desirable:

• SAP and SAP Ariba experience

We are looking for talents with expert knowledge and an entrepreneurial spirit that enjoy working collaboratively in a global team. We are pleased to get to know you better. Please use our online portal to submit your application: jobs.stada.com