Finance Associate

Overview

We are seeking a detail-oriented Finance Associate to provide technical support to the Finance team across month-end closing, reconciliations, financial reporting, and audit preparation. You will be working for Uniphar Durbin Ireland. This role involves managing key accounting processes, ensuring data integrity, and supporting both internal and external stakeholders with accurate and timely financial information.

Key Responsibilities

• Month-End & Financial Reporting: Assist the Financial Accountant in the preparation and execution of month-end close and consolidated group reporting.
• Support the production of monthly management accounts, including variance analysis and commentary on balance sheet line items (debtors, creditors, stock).
• Perform distribution margin analysis across multiple customers and reconcile program pass-through costs.
• Maintain and update the Fixed Asset Register, ensuring accurate depreciation and asset lifecycle management.
• Reconciliations & Controls: Prepare and review monthly bank reconciliations, clearing reconciling items in a timely manner.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring completeness and accuracy of financial data.
• Oversee the accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) functions, including invoice processing, payment scheduling, and receipt allocation.
• Manage credit control activities, ensuring timely debtor collections and accurate cash flow forecasting.
• Process domestic and foreign currency banking transactions, including supplier payments and invoice matching.
• Cash Flow & Treasury: Maintain and update the daily cash flow forecast. Coordinate supplier payments, including preparation of mid-month and month-end payment runs.
• Assist with fund transfers, cash allocation, and treasury reporting processes.
• Operational Finance & Stock: Partner with the Operations team to provide financial reporting support for stock; maintain stock systems, ensuring accurate booking-out processes for prescriptions (weekly and month-end); investigate and resolve stock discrepancies and queries in a timely manner.
• Audit & Compliance: Support annual statutory and external audits, including preparation of supporting schedules and reconciliations; maintain financial controls and ensure compliance with company policies and accounting standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Maintain issue trackers, contribute to process improvement initiatives, and provide updates to the Finance Manager.
• Support ad-hoc financial projects and administrative duties as required.

Candidate Requirements

• Minimum 1 year experience within Accounts Payable/Receivable function.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Working towards a professional qualification in ACCA/ACA/CPA desirable.
• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Minimum two years in an accounts role desirable.
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative.

About Uniphar

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

From our leadership team and across all of our divisions, Uniphar lives and breathes four key culture pillars:

• 1. We have a People First approach, we do the right thing and take a stand for our people.
• 2. We foster a strong Entrepreneurial Spirit where Adaptability, Commitment & Resilience is embodied in our way of working.
• 3. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people.
• 4. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

How we'd like to work together

As we are a global team, there is flexibility to be based in one of Uniphar's offices or work from home. There may be a need for face to face meetings in other locations, as needed. There may also be some flexibility required in order to interact with colleagues or clients in their time zones (i.e. it's not a '9 to 5' type of job). In return, you will be joining an environment that understands how inter-twined work and life have become - and both the benefits and challenges that brings - and therefore offers a flexible, progressive way of supporting it through our Hybrid Working philosophy.

Please note that Uniphar is an equal-opportunity employer; we do not discriminate and welcome all responses.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Accounting/Auditing

Industries

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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