The Financial Accountant reports to the country Finance Manager and is responsible for ensuring full compliance with local statutory, tax, and financial reporting requirements. This role acts as the key liaison between the local organisation and outsourced/nearshore accounting and finance service providers. The position is responsible for timely and accurate financial reporting, ensuring there is adherence to tax regulations, and efficient collaboration with external stakeholders, including auditors and tax authorities.
Ensure accurate financial reporting and financial, tax & regulatory compliance. Effective oversight of accounting operations (local, offshored or outsourced) to support the organization’s financial health and strategic goals.
Financial Compliance & Reporting;
- Ensuring financial accuracy and compliance of the local month-end and year-end closing processes.
- Act as the key liaison between the local organisation and outsourced accounting ensuring financial accuracy is ensued at outsourced location (overall accountability sits at local level)
- Ensure BPC inputs are accurate & timely (overall accountability sits at local level)
- Support completion of the monthly performance deck and delivery of results to wider team.
- SAP report generation/variance analysis to support month end analysis for MRD.
- Develop 1 master template for monitoring TAS/XTEL accruals with Sales team and manage releases where appropriate. As part of this, completion of timely and accurate SAP reconciliations between TAS/XTEL.
- Drive the AR Team check-in meeting/agenda on overdue invoices. Act as the key liaison/bridge between AR & Sales teams. Holding stakeholders to account on actions.
- Completion of 3 official OWC forecasts (LE3, LE6, LE9). Identify and drive projects on sustainably improving our OWC position.
- Manage Customer communications re: Net Invoice Sales.
- Support AP & Sales team on PO management when necessary. Maintain master list of aging accruals across our OPEX spend.
- Maintain strong internal controls to ensure compliance with corporate policies and local regulations.
Statutory & Tax Compliance (Regulatory Governance);
- Monitor changes in tax laws and regulations, assessing their impact on existing mandatory declarations/returns, and collaborate with GBS on same.
- Act as the bridge between local operations and outsourced or offshored accounting/tax service providers, ensuring local legal requirements are met.
- Support where necessary to answer any questions (particularly in short term) with completion of the outsourced tax or statutory reporting.
- Ensure the fulfilment of all audit requirements are met while maintaining the relationship with external auditors and regulatory bodies.
Commercial Initiatives;
- Co-pilot with RGM team on projects to deliver insights that improve profitability, drive growth, and ensure delivery of financial targets.
- Support VCP (Value Creation plan) from a financial lens perspective.
Financial Strategy and Planning;
- Drive sustainable cost savings initiatives/projects across SG&A and W&D to support a ZOG process and allow us to potentially re-invest to drive more profitable growth into the future.
- High involvement in preparing elements of the annual operating plan (AOP) as follows:
- Completion of AOP supply chain costs, indirect costs, IT & other administrative costs.
- Completion of all Irish AOP submissions in BPC & SAP including upload file preparation.
Ad hoc;
- Role can have capacity for other ad hoc tasks/projects – e.g.
- Management of 3rd party stakeholder “Greenstreet” on packaging returns to ensure high standard returns and in line with legislation.
- Grant Applications
