Assistant Accountant in Middlesbrough

A long-established Specialty chemicals producer with a Platinum Ecovadis rating based in the North East of England, supplying over 400 customers via 2 manufacturing sites with its own R&D facilities. Our 4 key businesses are: Personal Care, Proprietary Reduced Environmental Impact products, Solvent Recovery, Custom Manufacturing to serve sectors including Cosmetics, Oil & Gas, Homecare, Animal Nutrition, and Lubricants.

What makes the difference?

• We are a top tier COMAH site where Health and Safety is at the core of how we operate, we pride ourselves on an excellent health and safety record and work hard to ensure the safety of all.
• Our people are our biggest asset and we have long been a champion of the Better Health at Work programme having gained ‘maintaining excellence' rating for many years. This also extends to a strong ethos of support and opportunity for progression of our staff.

Would you like to join an innovative group with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a culture of excellence? The Seqens story began in 2003 in the Lyon, France area. Since then, the group has grown steadily to become a major global player in pharmaceutical solutions and specialty ingredients. We offer our customers contract manufacturing services and a broad portfolio of active ingredients and pharmaceutical intermediates. Today, Seqens employs nearly 2,700 people across 3 continents and 9 countries. With 15 production sites and 5 R&D centers, we support over 1,500 customers worldwide.

Position Context: Working in the Finance Team and reporting to the Financial Accountant.

Main tasks:

• Post all cash receipts and payments from the bank statements into the ERP system.
• Reconcile the bank and factoring accounts.
• Manage sale of invoices to Facflow.
• Provide weekly cash position forecast summary to Group, including FX swaps.
• Apply customer payments to sales invoices and investigate and resolve differences.
• Run weekly and monthly debtor reports.
• Monitor customer accounts and chase for payment of overdue invoices.
• Ensure that credit checks are carried out on all potential customers and credit limits reviewed and updated in ERP system.
• Ensure that all costs are captured in the correct accounting period through posting accruals and prepayments.
• Reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts.
• Monitoring and reconciling Payroll Creditor accounts.
• Arranging monthly meetings with cost centre managers to provide them with details of monthly spend and to discuss future variations to budgets.
• Maintaining Fixed Asset Schedule and CAPEX projects.
• Provision of information to assist in budget preparation.
• Posting journals including the monthly payroll journal.
• Provide cover for the Purchase Ledger Clerk and Financial Accountant.
• Office of National Statistics (ONS) Reporting.
• Provide accurate and timely information to external auditors when required.
• Adhoc activities.

Required skills:

• Knowledge of ERP systems (SAP preferable).
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure, meeting deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Self-driven and motivated to achieve.
• Attention to detail & ability to investigate discrepancies.
• Good communication skills both within and outside of the department.
• Good organisational and planning skills.
• Good excel skills.
• Experience in Microsoft Office, SharePoint etc.
• AAT part qualified/qualified by experience.
• Must be eligible to work in the UK.

At Seqens Custom Specialties, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including but not limited to; race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability and religion. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply and join us in fostering a culture of respect, openness and inclusion. Should you have any accessibility requirements that would facilitate your application process, please email careersuk@seqens.com.

Job location: United Kingdom, England, Middlesbrough.