Assistant Financial Accountant

About us:

We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of collagen products for the food industry. We supply high quality edible films and coatings​ to over 1,000 customers in more than 100 countries, delivering our purpose of ‘Creating the Added Layer of Value’.

Primarily used by customers in the production of a wide variety of sausage and meat products, our aspirations reach way beyond our current products and services, and appeal to our natural curiosity to improve what we do.

As a global organisation, we currently employ around 2,000 people spanning the Americas, UK/EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. We offer careers in research and development, science and food technology, manufacturing and supply chain operations, engineering, sales, and a range of other business support functions. We are always seeking talented people to join the amazing colleagues we have, to keep growing our business.

Our mission is to sustainably utilise technology and biomaterial science-based solutions, to delight our customers. We are a business committed to the pursuit of better. The constant pursuit of what’s next, what’s needed, what’s possible now, and in the future. Do you want to be part of our journey?

About the role:

Reporting to the Financial Accountant you will form as part of the Shared Services Centre R2R team. You will provide support to the Financial Accountants to ensure all the financial, management, statutory accounting, and reporting for Devro USA, Devro Australia, Devro Asia and Devro Scotland to meet both internal and external requirements. This role requires flexible working hours during key finance deadline periods e.g. month-end, Year-End as communication with local management and cost centre managers will need to happen at local times.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Ensure the fiscal and statutory requirements are observed in order for the company to be compliant with local legislation​
• Month end/year end reporting including completing monthly management accounts , operating expenses, group projects, exceptional items and miscellaneous income and expense​
• Working together with the AP and AR teams to ensure all P2P and I2C sub ledgers are accurately reported in order to have an efficient period close process​
• Communicate on a regular basis with local Devro leadership and Group finance teams​
• Developing and maintaining accounting principles, practices and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements​
• Protects company assets by enforcing controls and company policies​
• Ensures all Balance Sheet recs are completed on a monthly basis​
• Pro-actively support the communication of deviations from expected financial performance​
• Drive best practice across the business​
• Provide support on any ad-hoc reporting and analysis requested by the Devro businesses

If this sounds like a role that you would be interested in, then we would love to hear from you. Please apply with an updated cv and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.

Other important information:

We believe it takes diversity of thought, culture, background, and perspective to create a truly innovative company. So, if you share our values, purpose and drive for growth and sustainability, then we want to hear from you. If you require any adjustments to be able to pursue an application with us, please let our Recruitment team know.

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