Bard Pharmaceuticals Limited
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Accountant
SECTION: Finance
DEPARTMENT: Finance
RESPONSIBLE TO: Finance Manager
DATE: November 2014
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BROAD PURPOSE OF JOB:
To work within the BARD Finance team to maintain and develop high quality service to the BARD
business and related financial reporting.
B.
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
RESPONSIBLE FOR:
CAPITAL
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Production of monthly capital expenditure reporting and maintenance of our fixed asset
system;
Action any queries arising following the issue of monthly capital expenditure reports,
providing supplementary reports where necessary and investigating expenditure variances;
Gain an understanding of the progression of larger capital projects by building and
maintaining relationships with budget holders;
Reporting of capital and depreciation budgets and 5 year plans as required;
Working with individual departments to discuss, prepare and justify their capital budget
requirements;
Liaise with departments to ensure that Capital invoices are correctly coded and processed
in a timely manner and queries are resolved in a timely manner;
Producing the quarterly returns on the capital expenditure for National Statistics;
Projects which affect Fixed Assets;
Oracle Patch testing when Fixed Assets Affected;
Provide schedules for insurance property and loss prevention;
Balance sheet reconciliations;
Complete Year End capital accruals and committed spend analysis for the statutory
accounts notes;
Review capital spend for items under <£1000 to ensure these have been coded correctly
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTS
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Provide cover for processing inventory transactions into the financial records, accurately in
a timely manner;
Provide cover for monthly accruals and prepayments support;
Provide cover for weekly batch reviews;
Monthly reconciliation of inventory levels to the financial records;
Year-end schedules as specified and delivering on the year-end timetable;
Stock Write Off and SWO Recharge - actual and budget reporting
Collation of monthly management accounts for IT costs – this includes resolving any
queries following the reporting, and working with the relevant budget holders and MITS to
prepare the budgets and 5 year plan.
OTHER
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Create and maintain relevant Business Operating Procedures.
Actively pursue business process improvements
PREPARATION FOR REVIEW:
CAPITAL
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Capital budget reports for the Finance Director, including explanation of justifications and
variances to previous budget rounds;
Presentation slides of Capital budgets for the Leadership Team and Production/Quality
Directors for various budget meetings;
Budget book schedules in respect of Capital budgets;
Quarterly US GAAP pack for fixed assets;
Year-end audit file schedules and answering audit queries in respect of capital;
Information to Gleeds for project spend for year-end tax information;
Quarterly analysis of fixed asset additions (Capital Allowances);
Monthly review of large capital project – Supporting the project for all Capital actual and
budget reporting needs;
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTS
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Tax analysis on specified areas of spend for the tax audit;
Inventory report and analysis;
Inventory reconciliations at Year End;
Monthly review of large capital project – Supporting the project for all revenue actual and
budget reporting needs;
ASSIST WITH:
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTS
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Provide cover for monthly cost of sales analysis;
OTHER
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Project work;
Any other ad-hoc duties as reasonably required;