Junior Manager - Financial Reporting

d and/or integrated supply businesses producing beer, spirits, RTDs and Consumer Soft Drinks.

Purpose of Role:

• Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes

• Ensure that management and statutory reporting is completed accurately and on time and that the surrounding internal control procedures are strictly adhered to.

• Contribute ideas, energy, enthusiasm and support to the continuous

• improvement of the financial and operational process

Leadership Responsibilities

• Executional excellence - should prepare reports and provide solutions on a simple and straight forward way

• Challenge to improve - should focus on improvement opportunities by positively challenging existing forms and ways of working

• Control focus - a controlling mindset is inevitable to contribute to the design and operation of our control environment

• Positive intent and personal impact - interact with various departments with a positive outlook when looking for solutions.

• Has the self-confidence to present own ideas and convince other in a motivating way.

Top 3-5 Accountabilities:

• Posting accruals and support accruals calculation

• The entity owner is responsible for performing BFC reporting specifically clearing the validation errors , sending standard Publish approval email to FC & getting the pack approved

• PBC(Prepared by client) should be given by the market for details like employee count

• League table commenting

• Comply with controls, applicable control is C0177, C0169,C0174, C0170, C1316, C1317, MF004, C0205.

• Perform BS GL reconciliations, Variance analysis

• Help the team to prepare for external & internal audit (both group and statutory)

• Update annual statutory reports (BS, CF, PL and appendix).

• Responsible for daily operational accounting and financial activities. Solves arising issues, liaises with stakeholders and with other financial colleagues to solve specific issues.

• Participate to the month-end close, BFC reporting and reconciliation process in accordance with the agreed internal and group timetable. Ensure the completeness and the accuracy of financial records.

• Working closely with other in-house and local financial teams (Commercial Finance, Costing, BPM, FP&A, Compliance, Cash Cycle, Treasury, Tax, etc...)

• Liaise with outsource providers and actively participate on the captive migration RTR project.

• Driving issue resolution, pro-actively seek out better ways of doing things and drive implementation of "simpler, faster, better" processes and ways of working.

• Proactively suggests improvements/additional control points to build in and takes an active part in process improvement projects, in implementation and in the follow up.

Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Graduate in Finance or Accounting

• 7+ years experience in accounting, technical accounting skills is required

• Financial Reporting (end to end view of Financial Statement Preparation)

• Legal entity controllership

• Stakeholders management

• Process Expertise and improvement

• Capable of working in a deadline driven environment.

• Experience of working in a multi-national SSC environment

• Has customer focus to be able to build excellent relationships with relevant internal and external customers

• Hard working personality, flexibility

• International (part) qualification (IAS/UK/US GAAP) is an advantage.

Language skills

• Good business English, able to communicate effectively

PC skills/System knowledge

• MS applications

• Relevant experience with SAP FI /CO modules

• Strong Excel knowledge

Barriers to Success in Role (Optional):

• Inability to work as part of a team

• Lack of communication and language knowledge skills

• Lack of positive attitude

• Lack of personal motivation/drive

• Insufficiently open-minded and not flexible

• Not willing to take ownership

Flexible Working Options:

Depending on market needs