As a Financial Coordinator VIE, you will be able to support our current Finance team and wider business stakeholders, with accounting and reporting activities. This is a great opportunity for you to build real experience in a manufacturing business with lots of opportunity for personal and professional development in your future financial career.
Your main missions will include
- Providing meaningful and insightful business analysis on business performance to drive commercial decision making;
- Taking ownership for the management of rebate contracts: advise the sales team on the effectiveness of the contracts and authorise processing of payments as well as reconciliation of the rebate account;
- Liaising with the Shared Service Centre (SSC) about the daily orders and get involved with the Accounts Receivable (AR) team by reviewing prospect customers and delinquent account receivables;
- Reviewing monthly information with the Commercial Director and Sales Managers;
- Acting as liaison with the Finance SSC to drive efficiency improvements;
- Being responsible for submission of the monthly accounts in a timely and efficient manner in accordance with the published timetable;
- Supporting the business in producing forecasts (monthly, quarterly, budgets etc.)
Extra information
You will have the opportunity to work from home two days per week, with the remaining three days in our Stafford office.
What you'll need
First and foremost, we always want to recruit talented people that align well with our values and way of working; we innovate, we collaborate, we’re agile, we act with entrepreneurial spirit, and we’re supportive of and close to our customers. Does this sound like you?
If you recognize yourself in the following description, don’t hesitate to apply!
- You hold a Master’s degree in Finance or from a Business School
- You are IT literate (knowledge of MS Office tools, particularly Excel & Word, as well as Power BI) and you have the ability to learn new systems (training will be given for SAP ERP system and our in-house reporting tool)
- You are results oriented and understand the importance of procedures compliance
- You are proactive and can easily communicate with various stakeholders
- You are autonomous and also enjoy team work
- You are recognized for being detail oriented and have an interest in numeric skills
- You are fluent in English, both written and spoken
‘Making the world a better home’ – Saint-Gobain’s purpose, we have a history spanning more than 350 years and have a responsibility to address the major challenges faced by humanity. We are on a journey to make the world a beautiful and sustainable place to live and have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050!
Why join us?
- Non-taxable monthly allowance
- Support for the first month of accommodation and transportation
- Round trip booking (+visa fees and needed luggage allowance)
- Health and social protection
- Expand your international network
You are assured to be welcomed into a professional and warm environment, where we value all of our employees equally and have a strong focus on their health, safety and wellbeing at all times.
You will join our small finance team in Stafford and will have the opportunity to collaborate with other finance professionals both within the UK and the wider European business
