Accountant (UK Based)

 

ACCOUNTANT (UK BASED) 

 

Work Schedule 

Standard (Mon-Fri)

 

Environmental Conditions 

Office

 

Job Description 

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

 

Our UK based Accounting team are looking for a qualified Accountant to join them on a full time, permanent basis. This role can be remote based, anywhere in the UK.

 

Overview

Within Clinical Research Group Controllership (CRG) at ThermoFisher Scientific, the statutory compliance team are overall accountable for Local GAAP reporting and compliance and the full end to end audit process.

 

Expectations

This role is responsible for local GAAP reporting and compliance including indirect tax reporting across all the countries supported and ensuring that the results are accurate. As an Accountant, you should be comfortable with challenging the status quo and proactively seeking out new ideas and solutions to strengthen performance within their immediate team. You should be able to implement these new ideas and solutions with support from leadership.

 

You will need to be a self-starter who can help develop a consistent foundation of high-quality data, while ensuring the ongoing day-to-day management and maintenance of that foundation. This will include but is not limited to ownership of the Local GAAP data, identification of areas where change would be beneficial and ensuring that you have good problem-solving skills in order to provide guidance and support to colleagues for identifying issue resolution.

 

Key responsibilities

Each member of the team leads their own portfolio of CRG entities, with activities including:

• Project management:
  • Project planning and deadline management (financial statements, audits, annual and interim corporate tax returns)
  • Coordination with auditors, tax advisors etc
  • Coordination with internal accounting teams and external accountants
  • Coordination with tax team for technical reviews and approvals for tax filings
  • Document control and coordination of signatures
  • Negotiation of advisor/auditor fees and tracking vs AOP
  • Review of advisor engagement letters
  • Audit meetings
  • Follow up and resolution of issues
  • Maintaining internal project trackers and database information
• Technical and accounting:
  • Performing reconciliations between US GAAP and local GAAP accounting records.
  • Performing reconciliations between local GAAP profit and taxable profit.
  • Audit/tax query resolution
  • Preparation of supporting schedules and analyses
  • Review of financial statements
  • Review of tax computations and returns
  • Review of legal documentation
  • Indirect tax (eg. VAT) compliance returns and all other local tax and financial/statistical returns
• Other:
  • Coordination with legal department over company secretarial compliance
  • Support treasury department with respect to dividends and global cash management
  • Assistance with tax investigations and audits
  • Ad hoc reporting as required (eg interim accounts, statistical analyses)

 

Education and Experience:

• Self-starter who is organized and has strong technical skills.
• Effective communications skills, both verbal and written; ability to collaborate with multiple relationships across different countries
• Ability to effectively lead, coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines, and demonstrated successful ability to adapt to and work in a fast paced, highly dynamic work environment.
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (equivalent to 3+ years of direct experience or a recognized accounting qualification equivalent to CPA/ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Ability to understand US and Local GAAP accounting topics as well as to understand how CRG has applied them in a complex ERP environment.
• Experience using cloud-based applications such as Oracle ERP, Workday, etc will a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or other related field, or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualifications

 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong technical accounting skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Interest in financial accounting
• Attention to detail and ability to multi-task daily.
• Good problem solving skills
• Ability to work under own initiative and lead own time across a variety of concurrent projects with a strong focus on quality and adherence to multiple deadlines
• Effective communication skills to enable management of multiple relationships across different countries
• Ability to focus on partnering with both internal and external parties
• Ability to work with ambiguity and complexity.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written)

 

At PPD clinical research services we hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognise the power of being one team. We understand that you will want to grow both professionally and personally throughout your career, and therefore at PPD clinical research services you will benefit from an award-winning learning and development programme, ensuring you reach your potential.

 

As well as being rewarded a competitive salary, we have an extensive benefits package based around the health and well-being of our employees. We have a flexible working culture, where we truly value a work-life balance. We’ve grown sustainably year on year but continue to offer a collaborative environment, with teams of colleagues eager to share expertise and have fun together. We are a global organisation but with a local feel.