We believe in empowering our people to Dare, Drive and Develop. We foster an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued, continuous improvement is encouraged, and everyone is supported to reach their full potential.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to ensure accurate financial reporting, statutory compliance, robust financial controls, and successful audits across a portfolio of legal entities. This role plays a key part in supporting business performance, driving process improvements, and developing accounting capability within the team.
Reporting to the Head of Operational Accounting, you will also act as a key partner to Group Reporting, FP&R and Finance Business Partnering teams, while providing leadership and coaching junior roles within the function.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the accurate and timely month-end and year-end close process for assigned entities, ensuring high-quality financial reporting.
- Ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory and internal control requirements, including audits, financial policies and SOPs.
- Review balance sheet reconciliations, financial results and working capital analysis, identifying and resolving accounting issues proactively.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing processes, controls, systems and accounting practices.
- Coach and support an Assistant Accountant while collaborating with finance stakeholders to deliver business objectives.
Why Norgine?
At Norgine, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patients' lives while building a multidimensional career. We invest in our people through learning, wellbeing initiatives, collaboration and development opportunities, enabling you to grow whilst contributing to our purpose of transforming lives.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong financial accounting and statutory reporting experience, including preparation of financial statements.
- Dutch accounting/GAAP reporting strong preferred.
- Proven experience managing month-end close processes, audits and compliance within a complex international environment.
- Strong understanding of financial controls, balance sheet management, intercompany accounting, inventory and reporting standards.
- Experience leading process improvement initiatives and driving operational efficiencies.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and people development skills.
Benefits
Our benefits may vary per location. Please liaise with the Norgine TA representative to obtain more information.
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Skills Required
- Qualified accountant with ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent certification
- Strong financial accounting and statutory reporting experience, including preparation of financial statements
- Experience managing month-end close processes, audits, and compliance in a complex international environment
- Strong understanding of financial controls, balance sheet management, intercompany accounting, inventory, and reporting standards
- Experience leading process improvement initiatives and driving operational efficiencies
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and people development skills
What We Do
Norgine is a leading European specialist pharmaceutical company that has been bringing transformative medicines to patients for over a century. Our commitment to transforming people’s lives drives everything we do and our European experience, fully integrated infrastructure and exceptional partnership approach enables us to quickly apply creative solutions to bring life-changing medicines to patients that they may not otherwise be able to access. Norgine is proud to have helped 24 million patients around the world in 2021 and generated €505 million in net product sales, a growth of 10% over 2020. Norgine has a direct presence in 16 European countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand. We also have a strong global network of partnerships in non-Norgine markets. We are a flexible and fully integrated pharmaceutical business, with manufacturing (Hengoed, Wales and Dreux, France), third party supply networks and significant product development capabilities, in addition to our sales and marketing infrastructure. This enables us to acquire, develop and commercialise specialist and innovative products that make a real difference to the lives of patients around the world. In 2012, Norgine established Norgine Ventures, a complementary business which supports innovative healthcare companies through the provision of debt-like financing in Europe and the US. For more information, please visit www.norgineventures.com.
