Management Accountant (FTC 18 months)

SERB•Weybridge, VT

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

SERB is a fast-growing global specialty pharma company designed to address rare and urgent conditions by delivering life-saving medicines when time and complexity leave no room for failure. We operate end-to-end across 100+ countries, ensuring 70+ essential medicines for rare diseases, emergency care, and medical countermeasures reach patients and clinicians with urgency – wherever and whenever they are needed. Shaped over the past 25 years by an entrepreneurial, disruptive spirit, SERB combines the focus and agility of a biotech with the scale, reach, and reliability of a global pharmaceutical company — always grounded in medical purpose, not corporate convention. Our 600+ employees are driven by three core values: Patients first, always; Impact focused; and Team powered. Guided by a clear ambition and a relentless focus on patients, SERB continues to expand through selective, innovative acquisitions, launching new treatments and entering new geographies. Across every step — from integration to delivery — our people act with passion, ownership, and determination to ensure life-saving medicines become available to patients who need them, worldwide.

Requirements

Qualified accountant (ideally ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
Advanced Excel skills: Very comfortable with core functions such as Pivot Tables, SUMIFS, XLOOKUP etc, text functions, and with working with complex formulas which combine multiple functions to manage large data sets.
Highly financially and linguistically literate
Diligent and methodical with good attention to detail
Commercially aware, and interested in understanding the business
Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage different priorities.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Power Query and Power Pivot, and advanced functions such as FILTER, SUMPRODUCT etc
Experience of Sage 200, or with other similar accounting packages
Experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry.

Responsibilities

Maintaining reliable and accurate accounting records, including posting month-end adjustments such as accruals, stock adjustments and provisions, prepayments, depreciation and similar
Preparing or reviewing P&L and balance sheet reconciliations, and other month-end and year-end close reports
Producing monthly management accounts and supporting analyses, including ad hoc analysis as required
Preparing and assisting with all statutory reporting requirements including annual reports, corporation tax and VAT returns, national statistics etc
Acting as primary contact for Veriton’s audits and tax inspections etc
Monitoring and maintaining cash balances
Reviewing payments and sales order requests
Assistance with budget and forecast preparation
Line managing Veriton’s Accounts Clerk, responsible for accounts payable and cash book processing, credit control and similar
Providing occasional cover, as needed, for Accounts Clerk
Supporting the wider Weybridge team with finance matters
Maintaining and reconciling key data sources for commercial Power BI reporting
Maintaining master data, such as mapping tables, which support the reporting environment
Administering key finance systems (e.g. Sage 200, Sicon Approvals, Concur, online banking)
Assisting with system change activities
Ad hoc tasks as required