Assistant Accountant

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Pay Range: £

Placement within the salary range will vary depending on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and internal equity considerations.

Bio-Techne is a leading supplier of life science products to the research industry. Our company is growing at a fast pace, both organically and through acquisitions. Our global head office is based out of Minneapolis, (United States) whereas the European headquarters is based in Abingdon (United Kingdom), with a manufacturing facility in Bristol and subsidiaries in Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic.

The Assistant Accountant supports the finance team on day-to-day activities, requiring team collaboration on month end and year end processes, VAT reporting (locally and overseas), and balance sheet reconciliations. The role contributes to the timely delivery of accurate monthly management accounts and year end statutory financial statements as well as ensuring full compliance on internal controls and external regulatory requirements.

• Key contributor to delivery of the month end close process and management accounts, including several legal entities across multiple countries.
• Ownership of balance Sheet reconciliations and variance analysis.
• Maintain intercompany trading and sundry balances; following up and clearing down differences.
• Maintain fixed asset registers.
• Preparation of data for foreign subsidiaries’ routine VAT and Intrastat filings.
• Preparation of data for foreign subsidiaries’ local statutory accounts
• Sales reporting for the EMEA region, including deferred revenue calculations and reconciliations.
• Supporting role in year end and interim EMEA group audit in support of the US audit with external auditors.

3. Personal Qualities and attributes:

Bio-Techne is committed to product quality, customer satisfaction, continued improvement, minimising environmental impacts and conserving natural resources. Environmental and quality management is an integral core value and vital part of the Bio-Techne culture.

Bio-Techne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in an interview, or take part in any other stage of the recruitment process, please contact hr@bio-techne.com for assistance.