Senior Financial and Reporting Accountant; 3 days a week onsite Liverpool Speke

This is a new role resulting from the expansion of the Global Accounting Operations team.

The Senior Financial and Reporting Accountant is part of the Account to Report team and is responsible for Financial Accounting for one or more CSL Behring entities to deliver accurate and timely execution of Financial Accounting activities.

This is an excellent opportunity for candidates making their first move from practice into industry, or those who have already made that transition and are now seeking a second industry role

This role will perform complex transactions and statutory reporting across the set of entity codes. It also includes support for projects and continuous improvement and liaising with Finance Business Partners for escalations.

Based on site 3 days a week on site at Liverpool Speke

Responsibilities include: -

• Prepare and post recurring and standard manual journals, including intercompany entries and topside FinanceCore journals.
• Approve Business Partner journals within operating system ensuring compliance to global journal policy.
• Prepare and post accruals and reclassification entries that do not require discussion or interaction with cost center owners (e.g., utility journals, insurance expense, and payroll corrections, workers compensation & property taxes).
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including but not limited to Accruals, Prepayments, Inventory, Intergroup/Intercompany and payroll alongside month end reconciliations for IC/IG sales and COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) confirmations and reconciliations.
• Identify reconciliation issues between operating systems SAP, BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) (Business Planning & Consolidation) and FinanceCore and resolve any issues that are due to system/ transactional gaps. Including reaching out to business partners to help resolve any issues that require discussion.
• Process allocations (incl. R&D cost allocation), incl. payroll costs and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) elements based of monthly timesheets, wages & salaries accounting, share-based calculations & reconciliation with HR (Human Resources) incl. superannuation & benefit queries, including monthly PTO (Paid Time Off) Journal Entries. Maintain and report on prepaid balance amounts.
• Support the preparation of entity budgets and forecasts including Profit & Loss (limited), Balance sheet and cashflow statement. Prepare and load data from the budgeting & planning tool to the consolidation system for all legal entities.
• Analyse and report on variances between actuals, budget, and forecasts for balance sheets and cash flow.
• Prepare local statutory reports including financial statements and government reporting this will include calculation of local statutory adjustments between IFRS and local GAAP.
• Ensure reporting compliance and month filing of entities under IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) providing adjustment calculations and support with Controlling & Reporting for review.
• Support for internal and external audit requests, including analytical and substantive audit support for both group and local audit reporting.

Qualifications, Skills and Competencies: -

• Qualified Accountant; ACCA/ACA/CPA/CMA
• Experience in a mid‑tier or Big 4 audit firm is highly desirable
• SAP Experience Preferred
• Global organization experience
• Ability to think through irregular issues
• Timely decision making and priority setting
• Strong analytical thinking
• Organisational agility
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent Stakeholder management skills, building trust with Integrity, collaborating effectively

CSL Seqirus is part of CSL. As one of the largest influenza vaccine providers in the world, CSL Seqirus is a major contributor to the prevention of influenza globally and a transcontinental partner in pandemic preparedness. With state-of-the-art production facilities in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, CSL Seqirus utilizes egg, cell and adjuvant technologies to offer a broad portfolio of differentiated influenza vaccines in more than 20 countries around the world.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

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