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Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.
We are currently looking for a Finance intern to join us at our Shared Service Centre in Manchester on a 12 month contract.
Within the 12 months, we will support you through ongoing training and development and exposure you to several teams to help build your finance knowledge and skillset – you will gain an understanding of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Project Management and Process Improvement.
Whatever your path, we’ll give you lots of responsibility from very early on, along with all the training and support you need to craft your own career.
Key responsibilities
Accounts payable:
- Scanning and Post distribution
- Administration of credit/purchase card accounts
- Supporting with preparation of AP reports and dashboard with checks
- Reconciling vendor statement/reminders
- Filing and archiving of all the filing inboxes
Accounts receivable
- Preparing cheque payments for the bank
- Investigate unallocated payments
- Carry out simple reconciliations on accounts
- Downloading weekly collection reports
- Make daily collection calls
- Logging outcome of collections activities
- Carrying out external credit checks
- Updating and maintaining credit info in SAP
Accounting
- Assisting with the preparation of monthly management accounts.
- Assist with the preparation of monthly VAT returns
- Assisting with the preparation of the annual budget and involvement in the ongoing budgetary control process.
- Assisting with the development of the company's Internal Controls systems
Project management
- Lead planning and reporting to global team (Risks, Issues, Actions, Decisions)
- Responsible for local stakeholder management
- Address any migration related issues and escalations (e.g. accesses, escalations)
- Responsible to establish the Knowledge Transfer (KT) plan based on identified work packages
- Be first point of contact for Knowledge Transfer in country including training of local trainers regarding project requirements
Process improvements
- Propose and support process simplification, automation and innovation in alignment with the GPOs (Global Process Owners) and ensure successful implementation
- Define key performance indicators and targets for SSC and retained organization, perform benchmarking with industry (KPIs, innovation
- Owner SSC Work Instructions level 4&5 incl. global harmonization
- Support data quality and compliance with group and other guidelines through checks, trainings, project support (e.g. segregation of duties, Internal Control System, etc)
Key requirements
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Strong problem solving skills
- Highly motivated with a willingness to learn new skills
- Ideally you will be familiar with MS Excel
- Pragmatic mindset, solution driven but unafraid to escalate issues where
Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.
People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.
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