Financial Accounting Specialist

Position Title: Asset Accountant

Position Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom - Must live within commutable distance of site

Business/Functional Unit: Finance (Accounting Transactions)

Hybrid Role

Position Purpose: Provide an overview of the responsibilities of the position by providing a summary of the most important aspects and duties of the position.

The role reports into the Global Accounting Operations Teams.

The role is part of the Asset Accounting Team and performs fixed asset accounting processes, project capitalisation, capital work and global reconciliation across multiple systems, generates and distributes fixed asset reporting.

Reporting Relationships: List other positions in the company that are reporting into this position or that this position reports into.

Roles that this position reports to

Manager, Asset Accounting

Direct report roles (could be revised)

None

Key relationships to this position

• Finance Business Partners
• Controlling & Reporting
• Tax
• Treasury
• Audit

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities: List the roles and responsibilities of the position (please limit the number of responsibilities to the primary ten.)

1 - Execute fixed asset accounting processes in line with policies and procedures, including:

• Review asset depreciation calculation for all fixed assets
• Process asset impairment and retirements, and seek necessary approvals (e.g., retirement obligations)
• Creation of assets in the SAP system
• Perform asset transfers

2 - Perform project capitalizations.

3 - Perform detailed capital work and global reconciliation across multiple systems, including Clarity.

4 - Generate and distribute routine fixed asset reporting.

5 Update budget limits on projects.

6 Support the month end close for multiple entities in entity specific processes.

7 Assist in budget and forecast tasks.

8 Assist in fixed asset cycle counts.

10 Create projects within SAP.

Provide data for ad hoc requests.

Position Qualifications and Experience Requirements: Provide hiring requirements for the specified position, including educational, experiential, and competency requirements necessary for the position.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related discipline; MBA or other advanced degree in related field required.

Experience

5+ years’ experience in accounting and finance in asset management.

Experience in global scientific/pharmaceutical industry highly desirable.

Competencies

This role requires several important behavioural competencies to be successful:

• Sound interpersonal skills and some ability to influence
• effective priority setting
• extraordinarily strong analytical thinking
• organizational agility
• attention to detail

The position also requires the ability to build and maintain sound relationships and collaborate effectively with multiple levels and cross functionally with Finance Business Partners and various Finance Centres of Excellence.