West Pharma Finance Manager 

Ireland, Dublin 

50567751

Manage the delivery of regional accounting activities for assigned region/entities, which includes:

• Perform timely month end, quarter end and year end closing activities; responsible for the close in accordance with US GAAP, including month-end close activities for revenue, cash, prepaids, tangible and intangible assets, accruals and debt
• Reviewing monthly/quarterly account reconciliations and other documents to ensure compliance
• Statutory reporting
• Processing of transactional taxes e.g. VAT
• Support annual tax compliance
• Liaison with financial planning team to understand changes in financial performance

People:

• Lead and mentor a team of professional accountants
• Focus on talent development, building a strong team
• Develop a customer-centric culture in your team with highly collaborative relationships with the relevant stakeholders

Control environment:

• Ensure that company financial records are maintained in compliance with company policies and US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements
• Accountable for ensuring that company policies and procedures (internal controls) are implemented to provide reasonable assurance that the company assets are protected
• Support the Sarbanes Oxley activities relative to internal controls documentation and testing and segregation of duties
• Liaise with internal and external auditors

Process, technology and service:

• Report agreed key performance indicators
• Support deployment of SAP S/4 HANA and other systems e.g. Blackline to garner greater efficiency within the Record to Report function
• Support implementation of Artificial Intelligence and /or RPA to drive further efficiency and effectiveness in our delivery of accounting services
• Acquisitions: Support integration into financial operations

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Finance or Accounting
• Minimum 7+ years of PQE experience with a minimum of 3 years of management experience
• Qualified accountant i.e. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA

• Public Accounting background
• Previous Shared Service Centre with multinational publicly quoted company experience
• Working knowledge of US GAAP
• Proficient in SAP or similar ERP and MS Office suite
• Experience of BI tools an advantage
• Demonstrated ability to form, lead and develop high-performing teams
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Project management, meeting facilitation, written/oral communication and presentation skills
• Able to comply with the company’s safety and quality policy at all times

• Use written and oral communication skills
• Read and interpret data, information and documents
• Must maintain the ability to work well with others in a variety of situations.
• Must be able to multi-task, work under time constraints, problem solve, and prioritize.
• Ability to make independent and sound judgments.
• Observe and interpret situations, analyze and solve problems