JOB TITLE – Financial Accountant - Intercompany
DEPARTMENT – Finance
LOCATION – Brunel Way, Fareham
WORKING HOURS – Mon-Fri, 37.5 hours per week (hybrid working with 2-3 days in the office)
A brighter future awaits you
At CooperVision, we create brighter futures for our customers and employees alike, striving to make a difference and go further.
You’ll be welcomed into a growing global business with a presence in over 40 countries. This establishes an incredible opportunity for you to get involved in international collaborations across Europe, as well as the chance to report into experienced industry leaders, furthering your expertise and creating a positive impact on both our business and your career.
What is important to us
Recruiting, retaining, and promoting a diverse mix of employees is core to our success. It helps bring different perspectives, diverse conversations, and new ideas to the table, all of which are incredibly valuable.
At CooperVision we celebrate, not only our company success, but we celebrate who we all are individually, and we embrace diversity. We support and we encourage you to bring your full self and not just part of you. We are committed to each individual and we look forward to a Brighter Future together.
What will you be doing:
You’ll be responsible for the intercompany accounting for all Shared Service Centre (SSC) reported entities. As we continue to strengthen our financial reporting offering in the SSC, timely delivery of financial and supplementary information to the markets we support is key to our success. Likewise this role will ensure compliance with Cooper Companies’ accounting policies, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the established internal control framework.
This role will be the main point of contact for financial reporting, internal controls and audit (both internal and external) pertaining to intercompany and will partner closely with intercompany partners and market Business Controllers, as well as Corporate Consolidations, CooperVision International Limited and EMEA finance teams, to ensure the integrity, completeness, and accuracy of the financial reporting. Further interactions will include working with the SSC Transactions Services teams, Regional Tax & Treasury, and our audit colleagues.
As CooperVision continues the OneVision journey to transition all group companies to Oracle, this role will play a key part in developing our intercompany trading processes, particularly the integration of AGIS module. Establishing a network of strong working relationships with counterparties will be key to facilitate an aligned and efficient intercompany billing and recharge cycle.
As part of this role, there will be line management responsibilities and will have 1 direct report.
A detailed job description can be sent on request.
What skills and experience should you have?
We’re looking for a qualified (ACCA/ACA) finance professional who has operated within a similar role and possibly could be looking for their next step into management.
You’ll ideally have working experience or strong knowledge of intercompany reporting, good understanding of SOX and US GAAP, preferably worked with ERP systems such as Oracle/SAP and operated within a large, multinational company or Shared Service environment.
You’ll be able to operate in a dynamic and changing environment, manage multiple deadlines, display a high level of professionalism and organisational skills, maintain confidentiality as necessary and have strong verbal and written communication skills.
High attention detail, good analytical and problem skills are key for this role.
CooperVision values
Our four values define and underpin our unique culture; we are dedicated, we are inventive, we are friendly, and we are partners. Becoming part of the CooperVision family means joining a friendly team that’s open, flexible, and respectful of each other’s differences, working together to achieve something great!
What we offer
You’ll receive competitive compensation and a fantastic benefits package including 25 days holiday, pension scheme, healthcare cover, life assurance, access to our Wellness Platform to support you in mental health and wellbeing, a discounted contact lens scheme and much more!