Assistant Financial Controller

About the role

The Assistant Controller will be responsible for supporting the UK Financial Controller and a wider finance team in the maintenance and preparation of the UK EPI site’s financial reporting information.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Support the management of the UK EPI site’s underlying accounting records, general ledger and associated accounting systems for SW sites.
• Support the UK Financial Controller with annual budgets and monthly financial forecasts, the preparation of monthly financial reporting packs for UK sites
• Compliance with all UK, IFRS and UK taxation regulatory requirements (financial and tax)
• Support the annual financial audit with the preparation of deliverables
• Support the creation and refinement of financial policies and procedures to improve operational workflows
• Maintain Fixed Asset Register, including Fixed Asset Counts and depreciation
• Responsible for recording R&D activity and expenditure accurately
• Meet monthly financial deadlines consistently and efficiently
• Maintain internal controls, systems and financial processes by documenting and following procedures
• Maintain and reconcile the general ledgers by performing checks for transaction accuracy and completeness
• Provide ad-hoc financial reporting information to UK sites and functional management teams such as supplier/customer or inventory history.
• Collaborate with shared services to support transactional finance activity
• Support project managers with the preparation of project claim submissions to government agencies such as Innovate UK.
• Support of ONS Survey submissions UK Census Bureau Surveys
• Preparation of routine and ad-hoc analyses as required
• Preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations including (but not limited to) fixed assets, prepayments and R&D tax receivable
• Manage inter company balances including the netting down and agreeing balances at month end with all sites
• Support the UK Financial Controller with the preparation of annual budgets
• Support UK Financial Controller with preparation of deliverables and samples for the annual financial audit
• Conduct annual fixed asset count

About you

• Demonstrated experience in a related role
• Ability to build effective working relationships with all stakeholders
• Excellent organisation and communication skills, ability to work to tight deadlines with strong attention to detail
• Willing to challenge the status quo and generate ideas for improvement
• High level of IT literacy, especially excel, skilled in use of accounting software (Microsoft NAV is a plus)
• Bachelor’s degree (B.A or B.S.) Or Accounting Qualification or Qualified by experience