European Statutory Reporting Accountant

Nomad Foods was formed in 2015 and with revenues of €2.6bn is the largest frozen food company in Europe. Nomad owns a portfolio of leading brands including Birds Eye, Findus and iglo, supplemented in 2018 with the purchase of Goodfellas Pizza and Aunt Bessie’s, and in 2021 with the purchase of Ledo and Frikom. We manufacture and distribute a range of branded frozen food products across 22 European countries with the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Sweden and France representing our five largest markets.

The long-term goal of Nomad is to develop a global portfolio of best-in-class food brands by growing organically and through strategic M&A. We are proposing that our new Shared Finance Centre will house both our Financial Accounting teams and our Financial Planning and Analysis Centre of Expertise. Our vision is to build trusted, equal partnerships through the delivery of timely and valuable services that will ensure growth and business success for Nomad Foods.

The team will deliver a step change in performance through a relentless focus on excellence in execution and continuous improvement, enabling us to simplify and standardise our processes and procedures, which in turn, enables quality decision-making, delights our customers and supports Nomad Food’s business objectives. The Shared Finance Centre will be an outstanding place to work for finance professionals, with new and exciting opportunities to develop careers and by being recognised alongside the very best by our people.

Reporting into the Statutory & Tax Controller - Shared Finance with a dotted line into the Head of Financial Accounting in Shared Finance, this role is responsible for ensuring data/requests for information for all in scope regulatory submissions are compiled/completed accurately and in accordance with deadlines e.g. VAT, Intrastat and the timely production, sign-off and submission of statutory accounts globally. This role will work with our external outsource provider to ensure they are provided timely and accurate information for them to complete statutory audit and tax return information to be prepared for submission.

An opportunity has arisen in Record to Report, supporting the entire European Nomad portfolio of businesses. It will be responsible for providing accounting/tax information and driving interaction between local accounting teams and our external service providers. The role will manage and co-ordinate the end to end collection of information required of external service providers to prepare and submit our regulatory returns across Europe in accordance with agreed service levels and timetables.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support preparation of statutory and tax filings
• Review of annual tax computations and statutory financial statements for completeness
• Support KPMG in the preparation of tax calculations for statutory accounts filing
• Collate relevant information to provide to KPMG for preparation of statutory accounts and tax returns
• Assist KPMG with collection of information for other regulatory and statutory filings
• Ensuring the success of the end-to-end project plan for the timely production, sign-off and submission of statutory accounts across the group.
• Ensuring timely submission of information to support VAT Claims/tax audits/statutory accounts production and managing issues in relation to this
• Managing escalations around ad hoc requests
• Preparation of statutory accounts and tax filings
• Prepare year end adjustment journals for statutory accounts
• Reconcile IFRS to local GAAP and produce extended trial balance
• Ensure all monthly stat adjustments are submitted as required
• Review stat accounts for accuracy before submission
• Review tax computation (both direct and indirect) before submission
• Leading internal and external stakeholder relationships (e.g. IT, Tax Team, Co Sec.) and oversee successful service delivery. This includes liaising with KPMG and external auditors to improve the processes around statutory audits to ensure statutory accounts are up to date and completed in line with required deadlines

Statutory Audit

• Manage annual statutory audit with PwC: provide accounts, support substantive testing, address queries
• Monitoring and reporting upon the adequacy and effectiveness of processes around statutory accounts processing and working with appropriate stakeholders to remediate any deficiencies

Other

• Support local controllers with year-end activities and audit as required
• Assist with tax audits as required

Qualifications

Essential

• A qualified accountant, with a ACA, ACCA, US CPA, or similar qualification
• Accounting background, local statutory accounting and IFRS; tax reporting and local market reporting
• Strong organisational skills, including ability to prioritise own workload in a pressurised environment to tight deadlines
• Self-starter to work on multiple projects simultaneously with a keen desire to learn and expand depth of knowledge
• Working knowledge of IFRS and desire to expand understanding of technical topics
• Possess a high attention to quality and be able to work collaboratively with key internal and external customers
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, be well organised, and meet or exceed deadlines
• Enjoy working with a team
• Can work with people at all levels
• Have a straightforward, open personality and an enthusiastic, positive attitude

Desirable

• FMCG
• Knowledge of record to report
• Public accounting with big four firm or internal audit with a large corporation
• Knowledge of IFRS and other European accounting requirements and their practical application
• Computer skills in major ERP platforms (preferably SAP)
• Experience of audit and year-end close process
• Project management, leadership skills