Job Description
Your contribution to something big:
This position oversees the accounts team for all 3 sia UK businesses (sia Fibral Ltd, sia Abrafoam Ltd, sia Abrasives ( Ltd) with overall responsibility for the preparation of month end accounts and supporting year-end requirements meeting the companies’ timescale deadlines. Analysis and management information, reconciliation of intercompany accounts and payment of intercompany invoices through the Netting for all 3 legal entities.
1. Operate as one team within Finance, sia UK and Bosch globally. Help create a positive team spirit throughout the organisation
2. Building better working relationships and utilise through business networks to improve intercompany reconciliations and payments through Netting
3. Create and support a culture of continuous improvement
4. Support in harmonization and standardization of processes within Finance
5. Assist in identifying ways to create efficiencies. Identify process improvements that will create a time or resource efficiency
6. Support Fast Actual Reporting “FAR” during month end close by preparing accounts by WD1
Month End Duties
7. Reconciling the fixed asset register and posting depreciation on a monthly basis
8. Calculate and posting payroll journal prior to month end processes.
9. Calculate and post-holiday pay and annualised hours accruals.
10. Calculate sales rebates and raise credit notes quarterly and annually
11. Prepare all accrual journals on working day one including general accruals and prepayments, goods in transit, goods received not invoiced, agency and freight accruals
12. Complete all month end journals in AX on working day one for depreciation, exchange rate adjustments, closing stock, also ensuring work orders are closed
13. Provide support to the team in the preparation of the month end management accounts upto TB level and provide analysis
14. Raise all free text invoices before the end of the first week of the month, ensuring enough processing time for the purchase ledger functions to process in the current month
Compliance Duties
15. Ensure detective controls are being completed in accordance with Bosch internal controls
16. Provide support to ensure Group VAT submission is completed in a timely manner, including EC Sales, Intrastat and VAT for each company
17. Complete balance sheet reconciliation in week 3 of every month and ensure variance are posted in the month in line with the risk matrix.
18. Reconcile, analyse and clear down historical purchase orders receipted where no invoice has been posted (trade accounts received not invoiced) account
Treasury Duties
19. Ensure internal controls are followed
20. Monitoring of company credit cards with Barclaycard
Intercompany Duties
21. Prepare the intercompany transaction templates and upload into the intercompany reconciliation using SAP.
22. Match off any intercompany payments with the corresponding invoice in SAP as part of the intercompany reconciliation.
23. Prepare and submit the intercompany netting and produce remittance advices.
24. On receipt of the approximate and final netting notification, prepare and complete the posting journal and match off all paid invoices
Year End Duties
25. Produce tax analysis information that is required by the company’s auditors
26. Produce analysis to provide to the company’s auditors for supporting the companies accounts
27. Produce Bosch Group reporting packs in line with IFRS requirements within deadlines.
Qualifications
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
28. Self-starter, must be able to work under own direction
29. Proactive response to problem solving
30. Strong attention to detail and accuracy
31. Flexible, ability to support and work with various departments and levels of management
32. Able to accept ‘change’ and work flexibly to high standards
PERSONALITY PROFILE:
33. Enthusiastic attitude
34. Reliable and punctual
35. Eager to learn
36. Very well organized
37. Team player
38. Strong and confident communicator
39. Customer focused (internal and external)
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
The candidate must have attained the relevant qualification for the role AAT qualified, ACMA or ACA (fully qualified).
The candidate must have proven experience of working at the level of a financial manager within ideally a corporate or manufacturing environment and experience of successfully managing a team of direct reports.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Minimum requirement to be able to use Microsoft programs such as Outlook, Excel and Word at ideally intermediate / advanced level.
Additional Information
Competitive benefits and services including pension, life assurance, 24 holidays + statutory leave, employee assistance programme, flexible working options, Perkbox, employee discounts on Bosch goods, development opportunities, close to motorway links and on-site parking