Financial Controller

Job Description

Job Title: Financial Controller

Department: Henry Schein Dental Finance

Reports To: Senior Manager: Financial Reporting

Dimension: Full time

Location: UK – Hybrid (2 days a week in the office)

Overview:

The postholder is responsible for managing internal and external audits, SOX compliance, monthly and quarterly consolidation and annual statutory accounts preparation, in addition to ensuring monthly reporting to the US in accordance with US GAAP and meeting reporting deadlines.

The postholder will also be the direct line manager for 3 Financial Accountants.

Job Responsibilities:

The role holder will be expected to be responsible for:

Monthly reporting

• Consolidation of balance sheet for UK group
• Balance sheet reporting on the Group reporting tool (HFM)
• Intercompany eliminations, reconciliations, working with other countries’ finance teams and US Corporate Accounting team
• Review of balance sheet account reconciliations and assisting team members to resolve long outstanding queries.
• Ensure balance sheet issues are reported to the Senior Manager: Financial Reporting and CFO in a timely manner and participating in quarterly detailed balance sheet reviews
• Assess technical accounting matters as they arise and implementation of new accounting standards, with proposal to CFO and Senior Manager: Financial Reporting
• Ensure compliance with Group accounting policies
• Annual reporting
• Preparation and review of consolidation and statutory accounts
• Liaise with BDO on audit matters and ensuring timely responses to all audit requests and limiting overruns
• Budget balance sheet reporting

Ad hoc tasks

• Key part of the team to ensure correct accounting treatment for acquisitions/divestitures and reporting correctly in accordance with US and UK GAAP
• Support CFO and Senior Manager: Financial Reporting in ad hoc projects/tasks, as required
• Company secretarial duties
• Support Finance team with closing out of any Internal Audit matters

Job Skills & Experience Required:

To succeed in this role, you’ll need the following:

Qualifications:

• ACA or similar accounting qualification
• Degree or equivalent in a related business discipline
• Skill & Experience:
• Experience of financial reporting, UK GAAP, external audits and internal controls (+2 years PQE)
• Good written communication skills, coordination and planning, multi-tasking, collaborative.
• Excellent knowledge of UK GAAP, US GAAP and IFRS.
• Experience in a multinational corporation
• Advanced in use of Microsoft Excel including vast knowledge of functions
• JDE knowledge an advantage

Person Specification:

• We believe the type of person best suited to this role will:
• Technical ability and attention to detail and accuracy
• Have an ability to prioritise and work flexibly, navigating quickly and comfortably between various subject matters and shifting priorities
• Be intellectually curious, resourceful, and highly ambitious personality energized by new challenges & opportunities.
• Be driven to meet deadlines, while maintaining strong financial accounting integrity

About Henry Schein:

At Henry Schein, our mission is to provide innovative, integrated health care products and services; and to be trusted advisors and consultants to our customers - enabling them to deliver the best quality patient care and enhance their practice management efficiency and profitability.

We know that our Team Schein Members (TSMs) are integral to bringing our mission to life and our success has been built on the commitment of Team Schein, a highly motivated and diverse group of professionals who are dedicated to meeting the needs of our customers. Every TSM shares a singular focus, fostering an environment that allows each of us to achieve our goals.

Henry Schein offers a diverse range of career opportunities, and we firmly believe that by fostering an environment built on ethics, open communications, mutual benefits, creativity, and recognition of the contributions of all TSMs—at all levels—we can help ensure that our best years are yet to come. As such, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and our integrated approach to diversity and inclusion ensures success by cultivating our Culture, recruiting, and retaining diverse Talent, supporting our Marketplace, and continuing our commitment to Society.

As a business we are committed to fulfilling our responsibilities as a Corporate Citizen, and we’ve been recognised for nine consecutive years by Ethisphere as one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies

Henry Schein is committed to the principle of equal opportunities in employment in all spheres of its operation. Henry Schein UK Holdings strives to operate a policy of equal opportunity and not discriminate against any person gender, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law.