Treasury Financial Accountant

Currently recruiting a Senior Treasury and GL Accountant to join a well known FMCG business. Fantastic brand to work for and an opportunity to join a business during an exciting period of transformation.

The successful candidate will have experience,

The candidate will be the key point of contact for the Treasury Front Office, local entities' Finance teams, external auditors and advisors. The incumbent will be in charge of maintaining the accounting books for treasury entities, performing certain treasury back-office functions and preparing periodical financial statements. The primary responsibilities include ensuring that the information for internal and external reporting is processed timely and correctly presented, in accordance with statutory provisions as well as group guidelines under IFRS.

Responsibilities:

Accounting Process - To provide accurate, reliable, timely accounting and production of monthly, quarterly and annual P&L and Balance Sheet for Treasury entities. The activities in these entities are primarily Treasury-focused but also include activities related to the holding of intercompany affiliates.

• Accounting for Corporate Treasury company activities; responsible for the daily posting of GL journal entries (SAP, Treasury Management System) including but not limited to cash movements, intercompany loans, cash pool, foreign exchange, netting, debt, derivatives.
• Intercompany coordination in accordance with company guidelines, including booking, monitoring and reconciliation of transactions of the affiliated companies.
• Ensuring reliable IFRS accounting for accruals, prepayments, depreciation, taxes and statutory accounting entries.
• Facilitate and coordinate end to end MEC (Month End Close) process ensuring compliance with internal policies, local regulations and IFRS requirements.

Internal Reporting to Front Office Treasury:

• Reconcile SAP to Kyriba Treasury Management System: FX revaluations, Intercompany Loans
• Intercompany, FX and tax analytics and reporting
• Timely reporting to intercompany trading partners and SSC

Cash Management:

• Payment processing for non-Treasury managed payments; i.e. vendor payments, taxes
• Intercompany netting processing for Treasury companies
• Forecasting back office cash flows related to Treasury companies

Financial planning

• Cash forecasting
• Assist with the preparation of the annual operating plan/budget and monthly/quarterly forecasting requirements for Treasury companies

Financial Reporting

• On the basis of SAP data, prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting templates (submission in Hyperion HFM) for consolidation purposes.
• Participation in the preparation of the annual statutory financial statements.

Internal controls according to Group guidelines:

• Creation of the monthly close reports taking into account the internal control specifications
• Ensure that internal controls are fully documented and made available to Internal Audit
• Ensure timely implementation of newly introduced guidelines and controls

IT

• Continuous review of IT system structures/processes to enhance business analysis, efficiency and management reporting: SAP, Hyperion, Kyriba