Junior Finance Manager

Location
England, Hertfordshire, Watford
Salary
£28000 - £35000 per annum
Posted
22 Mar 2019
Closes
29 Mar 2019
Ref
Sm 120219 FIN
Contact
Stephen McCarthy
Category
Pharmaceutical
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Vitae are delighted to be working exclusively with a growing pharmaceutical business based in Watford to source a Junior Finance Manager to join their team. This business is part of a Global PLC that operates across Asia, Europe and USA and have exciting plans to grow in 2019.
This is a critical role with the business that will be working closely with the Head of Finance and will play a major part in the day to day running of the Finance Department.

Key Responsibilities:
-Ensuring all financial procedures and policies are kept to and updated as necessary
-Managing key financial processes such as banking, purchase ledger and sales ledger
-Credit control and dealing with customer queries
-Issue of credit notes to customers
-Supplier statement reconciliation and monthly payments
-Banking operations and posting to general ledger including bank reconciliation
-Expense claims checking analysis and posting
-Completion and submission of tax compliances such as VAT, EC sales
-Point of contact for the internal and external auditors
-Managing the period end close-down procedures to strict deadlines, including reconciling inter-company balances
-Management accounts preparation
-Ad hoc tasks to meet the needs of the business
-Supporting with continuous improvement, developing controls, processes and procedures

This role would suit a part-qualified / QBE accountant with a strong financial accounting background - capable of coming in and hitting the ground running within a fast-paced, close-knit finance team. A background of process implementation would be desirable but is not essential.
Excellent communication skills will be essential and there will be opportunity for the successful candidate to progress to a more senior role within the business.

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