Management Accountant/ Finance Business Partner in Liverpool

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Overview

Your role: Management Accountant

To prepare, analyse and interpret information to facilitate the most efficient and effective and accurate running of a manufacturing site. Manage the company accounts, ensuring the control of company assets and compliance with corporate, local and fiscal requirements. Develop and analyse strategic business/financial options. Recommend the best business option and gain approval for implementation from local and corporate management.

Functions, Duties, Tasks

• To be responsible for preparing the site’s financial accounts and to ensure that they present a ‘true and fair’ view of the company’s position.
• Complete financial close on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis to tight timescales.
• As part of the monthly financial pack, provide commentary on manufacturing variances eg Use/Yield, Losses and Price Variance.
• Lead the Inventory Slow Moving Processes, provide files for review, attend meetings and post a journal for movement in provision.
• Play a key role in the business planning processes, developing site goals, and objectives and ensuring focus on critical issues.
• This ranges from the strategic review to the more detailed 12 month plan and incorporates; demand requirements, comparisons with current and future capabilities, headcount, capital and expense requirements etc.
• Product costing – each year the standard costs are updated as part of the business planning process. This role is responsible for preparing data ready to load into SAP and successfully completing all steps in SAP to ensure costing is loaded accurately and in line with company policy.
• Take a key role in determining the most profitable way to produce the company’s products. This involves ‘what-if’ analyses, with regard to alternate raw materials, equipment, cycle times and staffing, benchmarking against other sites and external manufacturers.
• Ensure all SOX controls are completed in a timely manner. This can range from Monthly to yearly.
• Work with the Engineering Team to ensure that capital spend is reported accurately and funding requested in line with company policy.
• Ensure financial audits are performed in a timely manner.
• Coach and train non-financial staff on financial matters.

Minimum Qualification

• Degree qualified with either financial experience or financial qualification.
• Experience of working in manufacturing accounting.
• Experience of product costing on a site with many different SKUs.
• SAP experience preferable.
• Experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry or other similar regulated environment preferable.
• Experience of working in a global company preferable.

Additional Preferences

• Experience of working in a global company preferable.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Elanco we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you think you might be a good fit for a role but don’t necessarily meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or other roles!

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