Assistant Financial Controller, EMEA

Assistant Financial Controller

Glanbia Performance Nutrition

Role Overview

The role is a key member of the Accounting & Controls Team, responsible for the production of accurate and financial management accounts for all of the EMEA legal entities. This role acts as a liaison between the EMEA Finance & Commercial teams and requires someone with strong communication, leadership and managerial skills. Candidates for this role need to be self-motivated and highly organized.

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting the Financial Controller on the ongoing operations of the finance function in EMEA and its support of the commercial operations.
• Review and approval of intercompany journals and payment requests
• Facilitate and review of monthly balance sheet for internal control and reporting purposes.
• Act as the primary liaison between the Genpact EMEA team and the Glanbia team, while overseeing, supporting, and managing Genpact in the successful delivery of their new responsibilities.
• Maintenance of financial ledgers and accounting processes, including responsibility for balance sheet integrity.
• Coordinating and managing key stakeholders and contributors both internally and externally as part of the GPN International divisional Group and Statutory audits.
• Ensure that the required accounting control procedures are in place and are effective. This includes the control and reconciliation of the Balance Sheet in line with Glanbia policy
• Project managing key business processes throughout the year including month end and year end cycles, and internal and external audits, from an accounting and controlling standpoint.
• Assist with tax and regulatory compliance
• Ensuring that commercial and statutory financial reports are completed on time and being continuously developed to meet the changing demands of the business.
• Promote and maintain a rigorous control environment with appropriate level of documentation and controls compliance testing. Identify areas for control improvement and working with business partners to implement change to improve the control environment.
• Ensuring compliance with all accounting, tax, and legal requirements across the countries in the region.

Key challenges & success measures

• Assist in managing and partnering finance teams in multiple locations.
• Ensuring that processes, systems, and controls are operating effectively across a rapidly expanding business and are implemented into new acquisitions.
• Assist in managing tax and legal compliance across multiple jurisdictions in conjunction with group tax and legal departments and external advisors.
• Continually developing the financial reporting of the commercial business to ensure that it is providing relevant and insightful information that drives decision making.
• Managing projects which require cross-functional and group participation in project teams.

The skills you will bring to the team

• Recognised Professional Accounting Qualification required (ACA / CIMA / ACCA) and retained membership of the relevant accounting body 
• Minimum 3+ years PQE experience in a supervisory or assistant controller role in a multinational environment or fast moving and dynamic business.
• Proven experience in a Financial Control team - preferably.
• In depth knowledge of accounting and financial principles as well as technical accounting skills.
• Results driven, must be able to engage with multiple stakeholders in particular working directly within/across international markets and within an FMCG environment.
• Experience in motivating and influencing in an environment of rapidly changing workload, tight deadlines, in the context of high client expectations and tight time frames. Ability to influence.
• A self-starter who has the ability to work well within a team and across geographical boundaries.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical, good judgement making and logical decision maker.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator.
• Proven track record of stakeholder management.
• Proven ability of dealing with ambiguity.

Where and how you will work  

The opportunity will be based in Citywest, Dublin 24 with hybrid working arrangements available which offer you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance.  

What we would like to offer you!  

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and acompetitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary. 

About Glanbia  

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide   

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.