Senior Financial Specialist

Key Responsibilities

Supporting group monthly and quarterly reporting process.  This includes:

• Preparing the monthly group sourced transactions and entries (loan interest, tax and i/c mgt. fees posting)
• Preparing the cash flow reconciliation at month end (for each legal entity);
•  Uploading of the Japan and Austrian subsidiaries into our ERP system (Microsoft AX)
• Analysis of intercompany balances and reconciliations (including PKI activity)
• Review of foreign exchange movements
• Supporting balance sheet fluctuation analysis
• Japan sales invoices and cash receipts matching, purchase ledger review and cash transfers
• Currency forecast and fixed assets for PKI group reporting
• Dealing with the US GAAP to UK GAAP difference for our UK entities in our ERP system ensuring that there is a clear reconciliation between the financial data that is submitted for group reporting purposes versus our local UK statutory accounts financial data.  This includes:
• Running the UK GAAP ledger and ensuring that the UK GAAP adjustments can be clearly identified.  This includes updating the IFRS16 annual calculations and journals.
• Ensuring that the acquisition intangible entries are appropriately processed for US GAAP purposes, with the monthly amortisation being accurately reported.
• Support the adjustment for capitalised development costs under IFRS 102/IAS 38 
• Supporting the statutory impairment reviews
• Preparing the annual UK statutory accounts for our UK entities in readiness for the audit.
• Supporting the audit process for the UK entities, dealing with audit queries or ensuring that they are dealt with by other areas of the business.  Being a key point of contact for the audit team and leading the audit timetable so that the audit can progress efficiently.
• Carrying out SOX lite program as part of PKI global SOX program.
• Providing general transactional team support, resolving transactional issues as they arise.
• Supporting ad hoc projects as they arise.  For example, this will currently include the following:
• Ongoing updates to account mapping for the PerkinElmer finance processes
• Participating in simplification projects that will improve the efficiency of our finance process.

Basic Qualifications:

• BA / MA degree in Finance /Accounting / Controlling or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience including completion of statutory statements; Posting of journal entries; reviewing & verification of the results of the FX postings and booking full trial balances into the general ledger.

Preferred Capabilities:

• Professional qualification CIMA /ACCA
• Previous experience of Microsoft Dynamics AX
• Experience preparing statutory financial statements
• Experience operating in a SOX environment
• Strong technical acumen in IFRS and US GAAP
• Strong Excel and accounting systems skills

We offer:

• Private healthcare including dental care – MEDICOVER,
• Life and long-term disability insurance – GENERALI,
• Social benefits: Gym card (MULTISPORT), Christmas vouchers, vacation, and childcare subsidies,
• Annual Bonus,
• Flexible working hours,
• Home Office,
• Allowance for working from home 150 PLN net monthly extra
• Possibility to borrow a screen, a chair, and other IT devices from the office,
• Tuition reimbursement,
• Referral awards,
• Internal career development opportunities in multiple business areas,
• Modern office facility including parking lot,
• Bike ride subsidy,
• CSR & sports activities,
• Relaxation, gaming, and nursery room,
• and up to 4 additional days of vacation