CSL Seqirus
CSL Seqirus is seeking a Senior Financial Reporting Accountant to join their expanding Finance Global Shared Service Centre in Liverpool. This role offers exposure to global teams and senior leaders while managing financial accounting for statutory entities. Responsibilities include month-end reporting, account reconciliations, and budget planning, with a focus on ensuring compliance with IFRS and UK GAAP. Candidates should hold a degree in Accounting or Finance, possess relevant experience, and ideally be a qualified accountant. The position is hybrid, requiring office attendance three days a week, with applications closing on 25th August 2025.
We are looking for a Senior Financial Reporting Accounting to join our growing team. This is an opportunity to join at an exciting time as we continue to plan for future expansion in a role that provides exposure to global teams and senior leaders.
Our Finance Global Shared Service Centre based on the CSL Seqirus site in Liverpool (Speke) supports our 3 main businesses: CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor globally and is expanding.
The role is part of the Account to Report team and is responsible for the Financial Accounting for one or more statutory legal entities to deliver accurate and timely execution of our month end reporting, account reconciliations, audit support and forecast and budget planning.
This role will take ownership of each respective entities trial balance, performing complex transactions to ensure accurate accounting treatment in line with both IFRS and UK GAAP. It also requires the ability to build relationships quickly, working with a broad group of business partners across multiple departments to facilitate problem resolution, support ongoing projects and drive continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
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Prepare and post recurring and standard manual journals, including intercompany entries and topside FinanceCore journals. Approve Business Partner journals within operating system ensuring compliance to global journal policy.
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Prepare and post accruals and reclassification entries that do not require discussion or interaction with cost center owners (e.g., utility journals, insurance expense, and payroll corrections, workers compensation & property taxes)
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Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including but not limited to Accruals, Prepayments, Inventory, Intergroup/Intercompany and payroll alongside month end reconciliations for IC/IG sales and COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) confirmations and reconciliations
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Identify reconciliation issues between operating systems SAP, BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) (Business Planning & Consolidation) and FinanceCore and resolve any issues that are due to system/ transactional gaps. Including reaching out to business partners to help resolve any issues that require discussion
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Process allocations (incl. R&D cost allocation), incl. payroll costs and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) elements based of monthly timesheets, wages & salaries accounting, share-based calculations & reconciliation with HR (Human Resources) incl. superannuation & benefit queries, including monthly PTO (Paid Time Off) Journal Entries. Maintain and report on prepaid balance amounts
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Support preparation of entity budgets and forecasts including Profit & Loss (limited), Balance sheet and cashflow statement. Prepare and load data from the budgeting & planning tool to the consolidation system for all legal entities
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Analyse and report on variances between actuals, budget, and forecasts for balance sheets and cash flow
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Prepare local statutory reports including financial statements and government reporting this will include calculation of local statutory adjustments between IFRS and local GAAP
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Ensure reporting compliance and month filing of entities under IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) providing adjustment calculations and support with Controlling & Reporting for review
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Support for internal and external audit requests, including analytical and substantive audit support for both group and local audit reporting.
Qualifications
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Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline
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Qualified Accountant, ACA/ACCA or equivalent preferred
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5 years’ relevant experience in a multi-national company or assurance
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Knowledge of GAAP and AIFRS
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SAP Experience preferred
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Background in audit or lead participation role in statutory audits
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Ability to work in fast paced environment
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The position also requires the ability to build and maintain sound relationships and collaborate effectively with multiple levels and cross functionally with Finance Business Partners and various Finance Centres of Excellence
This role is based out of our Financial Shared Service Centre, Speke, Liverpool.
Hybrid role: Office based 3 days a week.
Closing date for Applications Monday 25th August 2025.
Our Benefits
CSL Seqirus is committed to attracting and retaining world-class employees who are valued for their contributions to achieving business objectives. Learn more about some of the benefits you can participate in when you join CSL Seqirus.
About CSL Seqirus
CSL Seqirus is part of CSL. As one of the largest influenza vaccine providers in the world, CSL Seqirus is a major contributor to the prevention of influenza globally and a transcontinental partner in pandemic preparedness. With state-of-the-art production facilities in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, CSL Seqirus utilizes egg, cell and adjuvant technologies to offer a broad portfolio of differentiated influenza vaccines in more than 20 countries around the world.
We want Seqirus to reflect the world around us
At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future. Learn more Inclusion and Belonging | CSL.
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