Commercial Financial Accountant

Job Title

Commercial / Financial Accountant

Department

Supply Chain Services

Reporting To

Finance Manager

Uniphar Background

Uniphar Group is a rapidly expanding diversified healthcare services business with a global footprint and a proud heritage in Ireland.  Since Uniphar became a publicly listed company in 2019, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, which continue to strengthen Uniphar’s international reach. With a workforce of more than 3,000 spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and medtech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines and treatments around the world.

Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Uniphar Supply Chain & Retail, Uniphar Medtech and Uniphar Pharma

Culture at Uniphar

Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working.  Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.

We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse.  This diversity fuels our business and culture.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Profit & Loss

• Review of Gross Margin and Sales with month end accounts preparation and reporting
• Work closely with the Commercial Team to ensure that all commercial agreements are correctly applied and deals are reclaimed accordingly
• Supporting Commercial/Business Support team on all Master data related issues (e.g. price changes, product set-up)
• Provide support to Commercial team on linking AP & AR queries to ensure information passed to the commercial team is correct
• Continuous Process Improvement and review of existing controls and processes
• Support Budgeting, Financial Planning process
• On-going review and assessment of controls , working with Process Integration/IT to implement or enhance internal controls

Balance Sheet (B/S)

• Prepare and review of monthly B/S reconciliations for Pre-Wholesale and implement B/S by Profit Centre
• Work with the relevant business partners (including AP, AR, Commercial, IT) to ensure resolution of reconciling items in a timely fashion
• Ensure that B/S accounts and valuations reflect the true value to the business, aligned to the Group Companies’ policies
• Work with the Finance team to resolve outstanding issues on monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Point of contact for external auditors for the annual audit of balance sheet accounts
• Liaise with the Accounts Payable team to resolve issues encountered when posting invoices and assist in resolving GR/IR issues
• Liaise with the Accounts Receivable and Reclaims Team to resolve issues associated with Principal Debt/ Recharges
• Effectively manage Accounts Assistants to ensure they are adequately trained, monitored and developed

QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS REQUIRED

• Qualified Accountant with 2/3 years accounts experience (SAP experience preferable) and strong commercial acumen
• Demonstrated and proven ability to work within a team to achieve common goals
• Significant experience in the area of Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Ability to work with significant volumes of data to investigate and arrive at a point which allows  an information based decision to be made
• Ability to work on their own to deliver results within a short period of time
• Dealing with 3rd parties where necessary to resolve issues identified in reconciliations.
• Ability to analyse information and prepare key performance data.
• Ability to work effectively under time and delivery pressures
• Excellent communication skills
• Decision making, problem solving, organising and planning ability

COMPETENCIES                                         

• Team worker
• Attention to Detail
• Communication
• Initiative