Financial Accountant (9 month FTC)

Main Responsibilities

• Work under the guidance of the US Commercial Controller to perform month end close activities specifically providing timely report generation, analysis and the preparation of accurate Management Accounts for the Providence and RSS US Operations.
• Support the US Commercial Controller in submittal of month end financials to the group consolidation tool.
• Create, maintain and improve local reporting and data management practices to drive consistent production of data, maintaining and archiving data sets (data warehouse).
• Responsible for documenting data management policy including the data generation, cleansing, maintenance and archiving activities.
• Provide up to date analysis of actual performance v target, identifying potential opportunities and making supported recommendations to Financial Controller and business partners.
• Provide and identify key data inputs to be used in the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
• Liaise with key stakeholders to collect data and assumptions.
• Responsible to continually monitor and implement internal controls.
• Support the Financial Controller with ad hoc projects aimed directly at cost saving initiatives and Lean projects.

Qualifications

• Essential: Experience with ERP and Business Intelligence systems
• Essential: Experience in cleansing, organizing and managing large sets of data with ODBC links via Access databases and Excel workbooks
• Essential: Strong ability in the use of spreadsheets and databases (MS Office)
• Essential: Familiar with financial consolidation tools (SAP BPC / Hyperion/ OneStream)
• Essential: Experience with general ledger entries, balance sheet reconciliations and financial analysis
• Essential: Experience supporting annual and monthly budgeting/forecasting processes
• Desirable: Experience of ERP system changes / upgrades
• Desirable: Experience with Power Query/ Power BI applications
• Desirable: Ability to use initiative and confidence to drive and simplify processes
• Desirable: Experience working for a manufacturing company