Financial Accountant

Oxitec do Brasil; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

About Us
We are a team of passionate individuals, developing ground-breaking biological technologies designed to sustainably and safely control pests that transmit disease, destroy crops, and harm livestock. We do this work to improve lives and livelihoods around the world in the face of the growing threats that pests pose to human health and the global food supply.

Whilst what we do relates to developing pest control technologies, Oxitec is about people and is in service to people.

We are strongly committed to a set of values, principles, and behaviours, and foster a culture of trust, respect, creativity, and accountability. Click here to learn more, and here to read our CEO’s blog about trust and our culture.

Purpose of the Job
This is a key role within a small finance team, reporting to the Group Finance Director, and providing monthly and weekly key information on the financial status of the company with a high focus on group reporting to better understand commercial sales.

The role is primarily responsible for the preparation of UK and US management accounts, group consolidation, and bi-weekly cashflow, as well as monthly UK payroll and VAT reporting.

Responsibilities

• Preparing the monthly UK and US management accounts and associated balance sheet reconciliations.
• Maintaining revenue recognition and revenue deferral schedules, working with the FP&A Accountant to ensure these align with program reports and forecasts.
• Producing the monthly group consolidation including currency revaluations and Interco eliminations and preparing the group reporting pack.
• Working with the Brazilian accounts team to incorporate data and analysis of commercial sales, COGS, and inventory accounting into group reporting.
• Preparing a bi-weekly consolidated cashflow, liaising with program managers and other stakeholders to produce a delta analysis.
• Liaising with the People Team and external payroll provider to process the monthly payroll uploads and reconciliation of resulting payroll registers.
• Preparing quarterly VAT returns.
• Liaising with third party Finance system provider to ensure the ERP system is kept up to date to reflect both internal and external changes.
• Maintaining user accounts in the accounting and purchasing systems.
• Maintaining the company expense system, Concur.
• Assisting Group Finance Director with annual audit and tax requirements and with preparation of UK and group financial statements.
• Supporting the Group Finance Director with ad hoc requests.

Skills, Experience, and Education Requirements

• Qualified CIMA/ACCA.
• Previous management accounts experience including working through detailed data to produce summary information for presentation.
• Previous experience of preparing group consolidations.
• Experience of working in a global business, preferably with experience of both project accounting and commercial sales.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central or Navision preferable.
• Excellent knowledge of Office 365 and a pro-active approach to IT systems.
• A track record of working in a small team that is embedded in its business.
• Understands what ‘good’ management and performance reporting looks like and is an accomplished user of BI tools to drive efficiency and meaningfulness of management reporting.
• Must be diligent and well-organised, curious, and keen to ask questions.

Behavioural Requirements

• Committed to and passionate about Oxitec’s mission and values.
• Responsive to the needs of an international business working across different time zones, adapting working patterns in-line with business requirements.
• Positive, humble, co-operative and professional.
• Work with a sense of urgency and solve things promptly.
• Resilient and persistent in an innovative and constantly changing environment.
• Curious and inquisitive, prepared to challenge and always seeking to improve processes to deliver efficiencies and improve quality of outputs.