Senior Accountant Emea

**Company Description**
Sirtex Medical is a global healthcare business with offices in Boston, Sydney, Germany, and Singapore, working to improve outcomes in people with cancer. Our current lead product is a targeted radiation therapy for liver cancer called SIR-Spheres® Y-90 resin microspheres. More than 100,000 doses have been supplied to treat patients with liver cancer at more than 1,300 medical centers in over 50 countries. At Sirtex, we’re transforming our industry through our leadership with interventional oncology and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. We offer stimulating careers and development, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We will always foster a diverse and inclusive workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to improve the quality and longevity of patients’ lives by providing innovative interventional oncology solutions.
Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring and bold mission.

**Job Description** SCOPE**:
Varied range of duties in providing day-to-day accounting and financial reporting for Sirtex’s European entities in compliance with applicable legal requirements, codes, and internal regulations. Work closely with the Finance Director EMEA and the Finance team in the accurate, high quality and timely completion of daily accounting tasks and period-end closing activities. Assist with tax filing and year-end audits. Actively promotes internal process improvement to achieve business objectives.

**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Financial Accounting
- Responsible for accounts payable including processing of supplier invoices.
- Monitoring of payment processing.
- Review and release of changes to vendor master data.
- Preparing month-end reconciliation between AP sub-ledger and general ledger.
- Raising customer invoices and credit notes.
- Processing customers’ receipts.
- Responsible for debtor accounting and receivables management.
- Preparing month end reconciliation between AR sub-ledger and general ledger.
- Preparation of weekly customer aging report.
- Set up and maintenance of fixed assets register and processing depreciation and amortization entries.
- Record lease entries in accordance with the IFRS16.
- Preparing the financial statements for allocated entities.
- Identify any specific provisions and put up a provision for impairment.

Inventory Management
- Analyses of standard costs and variance.
- Preparation of month-end inventory reconciliations.
- Overseeing of monthly stock count.

Banking
- Import daily bank statements from HSBC and post-process the statement items.
- Maintenance of clearing accounts.
- Preparation of cash forecast.
- Monthly cash reconciliation.
- Review of the cash book and monthly petty cash counting.

Financial Reporting and Audits
- Preparing the monthly and annual financial statements.
- Preparation of financial reports for statutory requirements.
- Prepare and reconcile Balance Sheet accounts.
- Preparing monthly balance sheet analysis with commentary.
- Prepare required reports for IFRS and statutory purposes.
- Assistance in tax audits.

Projects
- Participation/management of projects in finance and accounting.
- Ad-hoc projects.

**Qualifications** EDUCATIONAL PREREQUISITES AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS**:

- Commercial Apprenticeship, graduation as Certified Accountant (Finanzbuchhalter)
- Additional Bachelor in Finance or higher degree as certified accountant (Bilanzbuchhalter) would be a plus
- Professional experience in Accounting and Taxation of 5+ years.
- Solid experience and knowledge of international accounting standards (IFRS) and German accounting standards (HGB) incl. cost accounting.
- Manufacturing experience preferred.
- Advanced level in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Fluent in English and German.
- Hands-on mentality and flexibility in a dynamic environment
- Good communication and organization skills.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Professional and ethical attitude.

**TRAINING REQUIREMENTS**:

- Undergo all formal Training Events as may be directed from time-to-time.
- Observe and comply with all Sirtex Corporate Policies. Work within, and ensure adherence to Quality System procedures, work instructions and other Quality System requirements.
- Work within, and ensure adherence to Health, Safety and Environment Management System procedures, instructions and other requirements.

**Additional Information**

Do you want to be part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the globe making a real difference to the quality of people’s lives. Sirtex recognizes that well-being, financial health, and work-life balance are crucial for our employees to achieve personal success.
- Diverse and flexible work arrangements to achieve the optimum balance between work and personal responsibilities.
- A culture of respect, diversity, collaboration, and inn