Description
Finance Analyst/Finance Specialist - Brentford
Skills & Requirements:
- Part qualified accountant (CIMA or ACCA finalist)
- Knowledge of budgeting, management accounting and management reporting, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
- Preferably you will be a French Speaker
- Able to effectively manage time against agreed deadlines for activities.
- Expert level Excel skills, preferably with experience of MERPs and other GSK financial systems such as BISON, Dashboard, SB14/IPT, TM1.
- Good communicator, confident in interacting with all levels of individuals across a variety of internal functions (finance and non-finance) and customer groups
- Flexibility and can do' attitude, drive to ensure that task is achieved
- Team working skills are paramount in enabling the jobholder to function effectively, to provide and receive support within small team of colleagues.
Job Purpose
- Responsible for delivery of the end to end Management Accounting processes across the SMAS manufacturing Sites
- Aligning to a GMS Site for the purposes of reviewing results, preparing GMS Dashboard and liaising with Site teams on Budget and Standard Costing exercises
- To build strong working relationships with customer groups and stakeholders and drive continuous process and service improvement
- Ensuring that process activities are carried out in a robust and efficient manner and delivered accurately to SMAS Customer groups to agreed timelines
- Drive for excellence in SMAS processes and contributing widely to a high performance culture within the team.
- To support additional processes across the SMAS scope as required
Key Responsibilities:
- Primarily responsible for the delivery of SMAS processes in line with agreed process and Service Level Agreements.
- Ensure that the sites' actual performance is accounted for and reported in an accurate and timely fashion for the assigned processes within the cluster
- Align and partner with Site Finance to review results, coordinate planning activities and ensure full compliance with GSK and accounting policies
- Responsibility for liaison with customer sites and stakeholders concerning assigned processes to build strong relationships, review performance and identify improvement opportunities.
- To manage own time appropriately to ensure assigned cluster processes are performed and deliver in line with agreed timelines, and according to standard work approach
- To seek development and improvement, to deliver a level of expertise in assigned process to the benefit of SMAS group and site customers.
- To actively support the SMAS culture of continuous improvement within the cluster and across the SMAS, driving for standardisation and improved performance.
- Support and delivery of additional management accounting processes assigned within SMAS as required.
- To operate according to agreed SMAS processes and in compliance with GSK policies and procedures.
Financial Probity Check and Verification of Education/Qualification will be required if offered.
CVs must be submitted in the first instance. The deadline for this position is Thursday 7th
Any CVs submitted after this date and time will not be considered but will be reviewed for similar roles.
For more details & information, please contact Giovanna Neophytou at Tapfin
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