Commercial Financial Accountant - with Great Benefits

We are on the lookout for an ambitious Commercial Financial Accountant to join our awesome team at Uniphar Group in Dublin.
Growing your career as a Full Time Commercial Financial Accountant is an amazing opportunity to develop exceptional skills.
If you are strong in adaptability, communication and have the right experience for the job, then apply for the position of Commercial Financial Accountant at Uniphar Group today!

Job Title

Commercial / Financial Accountant

Department

Allphar Finance - Supply Chain Services

Reporting To

Finance Manager

Company Background

The Uniphar Group is a leading service provider within the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector headquartered in Ireland. We have grown significantly in recent years, both organically and through acquisition. We now employ close to 3,500 people at 18 Global office locations and depots in Ireland, US, UK, APAC and mainland Europe.

Operating a strong service-based culture and working closely with our partners, we provide an innovative range of services and integrated solutions based on our core capabilities. These services include product distribution, outsourcing and resourcing, multichannel account management, data analytics, market access and patient management solutions into the pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors. The business is divided into three trading divisions: Supply Chain & Retail Services, Product Access Services and Commercial & Clinical Services.

• Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies, hospitals and veterinary surgeons in Ireland. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life and Allcare brands.
• Our Product Access Services businesses support healthcare professionals and their patients to access unlicensed or otherwise difficult to procure medicines. Within the division we now concentrate on two specific business areas: On Demand Access and Exclusive Access. Uniphar, through the PharmaSource, has had a lot of success in this area, thanks to our strong pharmacy relationships and our ability to access two million pharmaceutical products through 100 global suppliers.
• Our Commercial & Clinical division provide outsourced services, specifically sales, marketing and multichannel account management to pharmaco-medical manufacturers, and distribution and support services to medical device manufacturers. Uniphar offer a fully integrated multi-channel account management solution that is supported through market data, insights and digital programmes. We integrate these programmes with our supply chain and distribution capability to provide a full end to end service to manufacturers.

The three trading divisions work in synergy to allow us to support our healthcare professional and manufacturer customers to provide their patients and communities with the medicines and care that they need.

People & Culture

At the core of Uniphar Group are its people and our employees are the driving force of the business. Uniphar is passionate about hiring and developing high-potential individuals and giving them fast track, long-term careers.

The company hires more than anything on cultural fit and potential to grow within the business. It is a fast-moving business in an industry that is going through a lot of change - this means our people must be adaptable, quick thinking and focused on results.

In order to succeed in Uniphar you will be smart, down to earth, highly commercial and driven. You will need to be flexible in how you think and a strong problem solver. We would hope that you would have a little bit of entrepreneurial flair and a nose for what is possible. You will also need to be a good leader, able to get the best from your own team and to work cross functionally and interact effectively with people at all levels of the business.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Profit & Loss

• Review of Gross Margin and sales by Principals and month end accounts preparation and reporting
• Work closely with the Commercial Team to ensure that all commercial agreements are correctly applied and deals are reclaimed accordingly
• Supporting Commercial/Business Support team on all Master data related issues (e.g. price changes, product set-up)
• Provide support to Commercial team on linking AP & AR queries to ensure information passed to the commercial team is correct
• Continuous Process Improvement and review of existing controls and processes
• Support Budgeting, Financial Planning process
• On-going review and assessment of controls , working with Process Integration/IT to implement or enhance internal controls

Balance Sheet (B/S)

• Prepare and review of monthly B/S reconciliations for Pre-Wholesale and implement B/S by Profit Centre
• Work with the relevant business partners (including AP, AR, Commercial, IT) to ensure resolution of reconciling items in a timely fashion
• Ensure that B/S accounts and valuations reflect the true value to the business, aligned to the Group Companies' policies
• Work with the Finance team to resolve outstanding issues on monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• First point of contact for external auditors for the annual audit of balance sheet accounts
• Responsible for reconciliation of Consignment Stock Accrual and improvement on controls and processes around Consignment stock
• Liaise with the Accounts Payable team to resolve issues encountered when posting invoices and assist in resolving GR/IR issues
• Liaise with the Accounts Receivable and Principal Reclaims Accountant to resolve issues associated with Principal Debt/ Recharges
• Effectively manage Accounts Assistants to ensure they are adequately trained, monitored and developed

QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS REQUIRED

• Qualified Accountant with 2/3 years accounts experience (SAP experience preferable) and strong commercial acumen
• Demonstrated and proven ability to work within a team to achieve common goals
• Significant experience in the area of Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Ability to work with significant volumes of data to investigate and arrive at a point which allows an information based decision to be made
• Ability to work on their own to deliver results within a short period of time
• Dealing with 3rd parties where necessary to resolve issues identified in reconciliations.
• Ability to analyse information and prepare key performance data.
• Ability to work effectively under time and delivery pressures
• Excellent communication skills
• Decision making, problem solving, organising and planning ability

COMPETENCIES

• Team worker
• Attention to Detail
• Communication
• Initiative

Benefits of working as a Commercial Financial Accountant in Dublin:

● Excellent benefits
● Advancement opportunities
● Advantageous package