Accounting Analyst

Position Summary:

Reporting directly to Closures and Flexibles Controller, this role will support financial accounting, reporting planning, budgeting, forecasting, associated analysis as well as general commercial support and strategic decision making.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Consolidate and analyze financial data (budgets, income statement & balance sheet forecasts, operational reporting) taking into account company’s goals and financial standing.

Develop sales and margin reporting on a company, region, plant, customer and product basis.

Support the preparation of budgets, forecasts and strategic plans.

Provide creative alternatives and recommendations to reduce costs and improve financial performance.

Develop robust financial analysis of historic and future performance to enable appropriate commercial and strategic decision making.

Prepare and present financial rationale / justification for capital expenditure proposals for group authorization.

Provide market insight and commercial analysis to identify and analyze potential strategic and operational opportunities for the group.

Tracking delivery of business initiatives and providing insight and analysis for success criteria

Work with divisions to assist in the preparation of long-range plans and business cases for new capital expenditure purposes and cost benefit analysis.

Drive process improvement and policy development initiatives that impact the function.

Support development of a business analytics/intelligent system

Prepare and post journal entries as needed

Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts

Assist with internal and external audits, ensuring data accuracy

Review financial transactions for accuracy and compliance

Manage customer pricing, maintain precise records, update pricing quarterly, and perform monthly pricing audits

Work closely with the commercial finance team to assist with pricing audits and support as needed

Assist in preparation of tax returns

Examination of travel expenses (occasionally)

Support in the preparation of monthly and annual financial statements in accordance with the International Standards

Capex and RFAs

Daily, Weekly and Monthly reporting

Production of Management packs

Syteline, BI, BPC and Blackline inputs

SOX Controls and Compliance

Prepare detailed business analysis

Track physical inventory

Continuous Improvement support and tracking