Home to the world’s best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.
Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

THE EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• ACA or ACCA qualification (CIMA or similar only if accompanied with statutory accounts experience).
• Ideally ‘Big 4’ background with experience of working in IFRS and the regulated Audit profession. ‘Mid-tier’ acceptable if has worked under IFRS.
• Strong Excel skills in manipulating schedules and analyses.
• Experience of consolidation either preparing or auditing.

THE SKILLS FOR SUCCESS

Accounting principles, Financial systems, Improve business processes.

EQUALITY

We recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will be working as part of the Group Corporate Control team responsible for all aspects of external reporting to shareholders and other stakeholders including, quarterly trading statements, interim and preliminary announcements and annual report. In addition, you will be responsible for helping drive the group month end close working with individual markets, dealing with queries and ensuring the timetable is met.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Aspects of the Group’s consolidation process, ensuring these are done efficiently with process improvements made where appropriate.
• Preparing analyses used by the investor relations team to communicate trends in business performance.
• Validating claims within our external announcements and ensuring that appropriate documentation is retained.
• Working with external auditors (KMPG) to assist with external audit process.

Work as part of the ‘month-end close’ team (a cross functional team across Corporate) to:

• Deal with market queries and questions
• Chase countries and ensure that month end deadlines are met
• Contribute to ‘lessons learned’ sessions debriefing across month end
• Efficient execution of consolidation steps, clearly understanding process and rationale for elements of consolidation they are responsible for.
• High quality, referenced and explained analysis schedules to investor relations.
• Clear explanations and deliverables to external auditors.
• Escalation of issues on a timely basis

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