As an Intercompany Accountant, you'll be responsible for ensuring the smooth delivery of month-end activities and maintaining the integrity of key financial data. Your responsibilities will include:

Preparing and posting intercompany journals, accruals, prepayments and other month-end accounting entries
Investigating and resolving intercompany reconciliations and balance differences
Producing balance sheet reconciliations and maintaining strong financial controls
Coordinating intercompany settlements in partnership with Treasury teams
Supporting monthly management reporting and statutory accounting activities
Working closely with stakeholders across Finance, Tax, Treasury, Accounts Payable and Shared Service teams
Supporting internal and external audits
Managing fixed asset accounting activities and related reporting
Contributing to budgeting and forecasting processes
Driving process improvements and helping identify efficiencies across finance operations
Supporting finance transformation initiatives, including ongoing system and process enhancements

Are you a newly qualified or part-qualified accountant looking for your next challenge in a global business? Do you enjoy getting into the detail, solving problems, improving processes, and building strong relationships across an organisation?, We're keen to hear from individuals who are:
Newly qualified or part qualified accountants who are actively studying towards ACA, ACCA or CIMA
Experienced within a complex finance environment, ideally within manufacturing or an international business
Comfortable using SAP or a similar ERP system
Strong communicators who can build relationships with stakeholders at all levels
Naturally analytical, inquisitive, and solutions-focused
Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
Strong users of Excel and confident working with large volumes of financial data

Synthomer is a leading supplier of high-performance, highly specialised polymers and ingredients that play vital roles in key sectors such as coatings, construction, adhesives, and health and protection - growing markets that serve billions of end users worldwide. Headquartered in London, UK and publicly listed there since 1971, we employ c.3,900 employees across our 5 innovation centres of excellence and more than 29 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America and Asia. Around 20% of our sales volumes are from new and patent protected products.

Competitive, market-aligned compensation
Discretionary global bonus scheme
Discretionary Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - for senior positions
Company car or car allowance - varies by region and role
Healthcare - tailored to regional locations
Parental leave and family support - maternity, paternity, adoption (aligned with regional policies)
Working options - flexibility where it matters, based on role and business needs
Learning & development opportunities - training, online platforms, buddy/mentorship programs, Internal Synthomer University with L&D offers
Wellbeing support - employee assistance program (EAP), mental health resources, wellbeing initiatives
Retirement / pension contributions - plans vary by country
Culture of Inclusion - where everyone can thrive
Performance culture, global reward & recognition programmes

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