Finance Manager

Financial Accountant

Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE) is one of Europes leading suppliers of sodium carbonate, salt and sodium bicarbonate and other products, from our plants in Cheshire, UK.

We have a vacancy for a Finance Manager in our business and this opportunity presents a varied, challenging and full workload associated with a £150m turnover business which is part of an international quoted group. With two bank groups, four distinct Business Units and multiple UK legal entities to manage, the team is always busy.

TCE serves more than 500 customers worldwide and has hundreds of active suppliers, so there is a constant focus on enhanced governance, systems development and reporting excellence.

Job purpose:

To coordinate the provision of financial accounting services to the UK business, with responsibility for period-end reporting, statutory accounting, direct and indirect tax, treasury and hedging processes and other activities where responsibility for delivery is retained in the UK.

Most transactional and routine processing activities will be delivered through the Global Capability Centre (GCC), but the job holder will be ultimately accountable for the output from the combined finance team.

Principal Accountabilities

Statutory accounting

Co-ordinate the preparation of UK statutory accounts and similar data required for the Tata Chemicals Limited group accounts, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and group policies.

Direct and Indirect Taxation

Monitor and co-ordinate the annual corporation tax return process, ensuring a clear split of responsibilities between the local UK team, GCC and other India-based tax specialists and external tax consultants.

Monitor and co-ordinate the monthly UK and EU VAT return processes, ensuring a clear split of responsibilities between the local UK team, GCC and external tax consultants.

Prepare and maintain the local tax risk matrix, including regular reviews with stakeholders in the UK and GCC to ensure that any emerging issues are identified on a timely basis.

Treasury

Manage the local UK bank payment process, providing oversight of the associated transactional activity at the GCC.

Manage all aspects of the local UK processes for Receivables Financing and Reverse Forfaiting.

Co-ordinate the short to medium term cash forecasting process, highlighting the utilisation of ban...