Assistant Financial Accountant, Speke - Liverpool

Our Finance Global Shared Service Centre based on the CSL Seqirus site in Liverpool (Speke) supports our 3 main businesses: CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor globally and is expanding. As part of this growth, we are looking to hire an Assistant Financial Accountant to join the team.

The role is part of the Account to Report team and is responsible for the timely delivery of accurate financial accounting activities across a number of entities in the CSL Group.

This role will include the preparation of complex financial transactions, the oversight of statutory and regulatory reporting, ad-hoc support for special projects, relationship building with our Global Finance Business Partners, all whilst striving for continuous improvement. This is an excellent opportunity for someone to further their finance career in an international environment within an established global company.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and post recurring and standard manual journals, including inter-company entries and topside finance core journals
  
• Prepare and post accruals and reclassification entries that do not require discussion or interaction with cost centre owners (e.g. utility journals, insurance expense, payroll corrections, workers compensation and property taxes).
  
• Assist with reconciliations, including IC/IG sales and COGS (Cost of Goods Sold), Finance Core confirmations, reconciliations and resolving any issues that are due to system/ transactional gaps and flag these to other analysts.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related discipline
  
• 3+ years' experience in accounting and finance
  
• Experience in global scientific/pharmaceutical industry highly desirable
  
• Sound interpersonal skills and ability to influence
  
• Effective priority setting and organisation skills
  
• High attention to detail
  
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment