Finance Analyst

Yorkshire  ‐ Onsite
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Description

My client is a global and leading pharmaceutical company who is looking to take on a Finance Analyst on a 6 month contract based in Leeds.

Duties and responsibilities as follows:

Monthly Accounts
- Prepare and issue monthly management reports and manufacturing dashboards to supply chain finance, prior to the required submission date in accordance with tight reporting deadlines
- Performance analysis on financial results, identify trends and highlight issues. Meet department managers to present this information on a monthly basis
- Cost improvement projects (CIP) Business Planning
- Assist in the formulation of the annual business plan and quarterly updates and submissions as required
- Responsible for setting variable and fixed departmental spend budgets
- Provide information to set CIP targets
- Calculation of standards costs and systems costs Financial and corporate reporting and control
- Prepare and issue all reports required and MD&D supply chain finance on a timely basis
- Prepare monthly updates to operations business plan
- Detailed knowledge of corporate accounting standards and worldwide procedures
- Maintain and implement internal control procedures relevant to areas of responsibility

Business Partnering
- Business partner to cost centre owners and support functions
- Support the preparation of capital appropriation requests and management of the annual capital budget - Support the validation of financial benefits for proposed projects Business Teams
- Be a value-adding member of manufacturing and multi-functional business teams
- Develop financial awareness of all members in cross-function teams
- Continuous improvement focus SOX and Internal Control
- Support any requirements from external and internal auditors
- Provide support to ensure all accounting and reporting procedures comply with SOX and internal control guidelines J.D Edwards System
- Implement system enhancements in the manufacturing and related accounting areas.

Validation of all system changes in these areas - continuously improving controls, including edit reports and system access

Miscellaneous
- Project accounting
- Continuous improvement focus
- Perform any other duties as required from time to time
- Adhere to company's procedures - all employees are responsible for minimizing both the environmental and health and safety effects of the work that they perform

Skills Required
- Experience of management accounts
- Ability to work to own initiative
- Analytical and accurate
- Planning and organisation
- Excellent time management
- Ability to communicate, present and co-operate effectively with all level across organisation
- Ability to prioritize own work
- Ability to work a varying workload to react to changing requirements
- Awareness and adaptability
- Multi-tasking
- Judgement and tact
- Assertive
- Facilitator
- Ability to simply complex information

Qualifications Required
- Fully qualified ACCA, ACA or CIMA accountant
- Minimum 2 years experience in a Management Accounting role or Project accounting
- Manufacturing operations accounting experience desirable

Keywords
If you're interested in being put forward for this position please email your up to date CV to (see below)

Start date
04-01-2016
Duration
6 months
From
Larson Group
Published at
19.12.2015
Project ID:
1040690
Contract type
Freelance
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