Accountant

BeautyHealth; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000

Job description

About Us

Hydrafacial is a global category-creating company focused on bringing innovative products to market and delivering beauty health experiences by reinventing our consumer's relationship with their skin, their bodies, and their self-confidence.

Every person here is a key player in our success. We are firm believers in making the little things count each day so the big things will follow. If this sounds like you, come check us out! This is the perfect opportunity to work with some of the best leaders in the industry while you gain the global and strategic experience to add to your professional toolbox.

Job Description:

About us:

BeautyHealth (NASDAQ: SKIN) is a publicly traded, category-creating beauty health company focused on bringing innovative products to market. Our flagship brand, Hydrafacial, is a non-invasive and approachable beauty health platform and ecosystem with a powerful community of estheticians, consumers, and partners, bridging medical and consumer retail to democratize and personalize skin care solutions for the masses.

Leading the charge in beauty health as a category-creator, Hydrafacial uses a unique delivery system to cleanse, extract, and hydrate with our patented hydradermabrasion technology and super serums that are made with nourishing ingredients, providing an immediate outcome and creating an instantly gratifying glow in just three steps and 30 minutes. Hydrafacial and Perk products are available in over 90 countries with over 30,000 Delivery Systems globally and millions of treatments performed each year. While omni-channel in distribution, the business today is a B2B model.

The Role:

This position is responsible for producing financial accounts, reporting the monthly financials to the US team, and managing control activities (including Sox). The role will also lead and assist the business in implementing efficient and diligent financial practices. This role will work closely with, and deputise for, the Controller based in Germany.

What you'll do:

Job Responsibilities

• Producing monthly management accounts under German GAAP and US GAAP.
• Preparing & uploading accruals, prepayments, payroll journals, expenses, and other journals.
• Reconciling all Balance Sheet accounts including, but not limited to, tangible and intangible fixed assets, prepayments, and other short-term assets, accruals, VAT, intercompany balances with any associated FX gains/losses.
• Reviewing Accounts Receivables and ensuring the bad debt provision is appropriate prior to uploading the related journal.
• Reviewing all Accounts Payables and ensuring all necessary invoices have been accrued.
• Reviewing all bank reconciliations (prepared by the Shared Service Centre (SSC)).
• Managing the German employee expense system and the associated accounting entries on a weekly basis on CONCUR.
• Liaising with the US team to provide all necessary periodic and quarterly reporting schedules to meet the group's SEC reporting deadlines.
• Reporting internal control activities with Internal and External Auditors to ensure SOX and other compliance obligations are met.
• Business partnering with other internal stakeholders such as the SSC, the marketing department, the tax team, logistics, and the US head-office team.
• Producing the VAT returns and ensuring they are submitted to the tax authorities on time.
• Assist with managing any hire purchase agreements, loans, and supplier contracts. Managing car leases.
• Preparing all necessary requirements for the Annual Financial Statements and assisting with the internal audit.
• Assist in supporting other stakeholders including budgets and forecasts and other KPI's.
• Driving process improvements and ensuring the processes in Germany are harmonised with other EMEA entities.
• Other ad hoc tasks.

What you need to know:

Experience/Skills/Education

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA).
• 2+ years' experience as Accountant, preferably in a similar industry.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills, ability to define new standardized processes.
• Hands-on mentality and work ethic.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong working relationships.
• Accurate, structured, independent, and self-reliant way of working.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with high commitment, manage resources, and effectively meet critical deadlines; natural curiosity for problem solving.
• Advanced knowledge in MS-Office.
• Fluent in English and German languages.

Desired:

• Beauty or aesthetics industry experience.
• Experience with Oracle-NetSuite & FCCS.

Hydrafacial is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy or any other protected characteristic as outlined by color, federal, state or local laws. We are committed to working with and providing accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Hydrafacial does not accept unsolicited assistance or resumes/CVs from third party search firms. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral or CV/resume submitted by a search firm to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement. If we need additional support, we will be sure to reach out directly to one of our preferred providers. Please no phone calls or emails.