Finance and Cost Accountant

Overview

Now's our time to inspire the future of healthcare together. Siemens Healthineers is a leading global medical technology company with over 170 years of experience and 18,000 patents. More than 66,000 dedicated colleagues in over 70 countries are driven to shape the future of healthcare. An estimated 5 million patients across the globe benefit every day from our innovative technologies and services in the areas of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, laboratory diagnostics and molecular medicine, as well as digital health and enterprise services. This is what truly matters to us.

Join our team now at Siemens Healthineers as the Finance & Cost Accountant for our Instrument Manufacturing Plant in Swords, County Dublin.

This role is well suited to an ambitious professional looking for the next steps in their career. As the Finance & Cost Accountant, your responsibilities will include;

- Prepare journal entries related to manufacturing accounting to support accurate & timely financial statements in accordance with US GAAP and corporate financial policies.
- Ensuring timely closing of SAP and subsequent reporting submissions to the head office.
- Cost centre controlling & budget co-ordination responsibility.
- Prepare account reconciliations to ensure proper balance sheet valuation, with appropriate accounting treatment for potential risk.
- Accrual preparation / execution & Departmental recharges to other group companies.
- Bi-monthly VAT return.
- Submission of quarterly / annual CSO reporting.
- Margin variance analysis (including PPV, Production and Absorption variances).
- Monitor variances to standard cost and investigate significant differences.
- Participate in other monthly close activities in area of responsibility.
- Calculate standard costing of products in SAP, including reviewing appropriate update of BOMs, Routings, etc. as necessary.
- Finance lead on process improvement projects.
- Provide finance guidance aligned to the preparation of customer pricing simulations, financial analysis and modelling.
- Business partner to functions across the manufacturing site and the wider finance community.
- Delivers timely and comprehensive reporting (current and forecasting reports) of income statement, and balance sheet. Providing risk and commentary for top management.
- Transfer pricing including reporting and liaising with internal external tax teams.
- Liaising with external and internal auditors.
- Participates in site strategic activities, providing relevant input and support for KPI's & organisational decisions.

This position may suit you best if you would like to develop your career with Healthineers and the description below sounds like you

- Self-determined, goal oriented and able to prioritize in an agile environment.
- Analytical and structured in approaching problem-solving.
- Proven ability to partner with others to drive assignments to full implementation.
- A good communicator with the drive to implement changes.
- Able to build strong and influential internal and external business relationships.
- Actively seeks out understanding stakeholder needs to deliver value adding services.
- Comfortable in individual contribution and team-based situations.
- Trusted partner of technical counterpart.
- Influential change management.
- Problem solving competencies through collaboration across functional boundary and ownership culture.

Required for the success of this role

- Professional accounting qualification ACCA / CIMA / ACA.
- Minimum of 1-3 years' experience in accounting, preferably within a manufacturing environment.
- Ability to exceed internal customer expectations on delivery of information and financial support to achieve business goals.
- Self-motivated and ability to work on own initiative.
- Knowledge of lean initiatives and ability to drive continuous improvement.
- Excellent inter-personal skills and the ability to lead.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Experience of working in a multi-national environment.
- Experience with SAP and familiarity with IFRS an advantage.
- Intelligence reporting – Power BI, Process Automation, Design Optimisation

Our global team

We are a team of more than 70,000 highly dedicated employees across more than 70 countries passionately pushing the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare to help improve people's lives around the world. Our portfolio, spanning from in-vitro and in-vivo diagnostics to image-guided therapy and innovative cancer care, is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

Our culture

We are part of an incredible community of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists pushing the boundaries of what's possible, to improve people's lives around the world. We embrace a culture of inclusivity in which the power and potential of every individual can be unleashed. We spark ideas that lead to positive impact and continued success.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals with disabilities.

We care about your data privacy and take compliance with GDPR as well as other data protection legislation seriously. For this reason, we ask you not to send us your CV or resume by email. We ask instead that you create a profile in our talent community where you can upload your CV. Setting up a profile lets us know you are interested in career opportunities with us and makes it easy for us to send you an alert when relevant positions become open.

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