Finance Manager

Description:

Job Summary

To position itself to meet the requirements of continuing rapid business growth and future market development, West Pharmaceutical Services have developed a transformation strategy of standardization, simplification, and centralization of global accounting operations. In accordance with that strategy, we are establishing a Global Financial Centre of Excellence in Dublin, Ireland. Reporting to, and working closely with, the Director, Accounting, in this role, you will be responsible for leading and managing the delivery of certain global accounting activities. In addition, you will develop an understanding of our strategic business direction and play a key role in the future development of the function in order to meet the needs of a growing and changing business. This will encompass both organizational development and exploitation of opportunities offered by existing and new information technologies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Supporting the migration of the record to report accounting function from other locations, you will 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, prepaid, 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 the financial planning team to understand changes in financial performance
• 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.
• 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.
• The 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.