Contract - European R2r Specialist

1 week ago

Bracknell, United Kingdom Honda Full time

**Date**:19 Jun 2024

**Location**: Bracknell, GB

**Company**:Honda Motor Europe Ltd

At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work. The regular office hours are 08:00 - 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 - 13:00 on a Friday. However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement.

Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home for a maximum of 50% of the working days in any one month, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

**Role**:
The HME Finance Operations team are responsible for transactional finance across the European region. Working closely with finance colleagues in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Group Finance and the outsourced Shared Service Centre, this role is an integral member of the Finance operations team.

Responsible for supporting the European R2R lead with key record to report activities, providing timely and accurate input into month end close activities, working towards end-to-end process improvements and partnering with the business to ensure accurate, high quality financial data is provided in a timely and efficient manner.

The role is ideal for someone looking to build on core accounting experience in a fast-paced European finance team.

**Main Responsibilities**:
**Accounting Close**
Maintain accurate books and records using current standard accounting practice for Honda Motor in Europe. Activities within the team are organised functionally and the job holder will be responsible for one or more of the below activites:

- Support correct revenue recognition under IFRS15.
- Assist with COGS and Inventory data quality checks.
- Book after sales provisions (Warranties and prepaid maintenance).
- Support correct Lease accounting under IFRS 16.
- Monitor SG&A spend and ensure accurate cost centre reporting.
- Support the maintenance of Fixed asset registers (Capitalisation, depreciation, disposals, Company cars).
- Raise accruals, provisions, prepayments as required.
- Perform balance sheet account substantiations and analysis (including intercompany and stock).
- Posting of month end journals.
- Maintenance of intercompany balances (and charges within policy).
- Liaison with Shared Service Centre to support accurate financial close.
- Contribute to management of month end timetables and ensure clear communication of all deadlines.

**Process Support and Improvement**
- Report on issues encountered during the month end close, support investigations and activities into their cause and resolution.
- Support European finance improvement initiatives as required.

**Data Quality**
- Support on going measures to improve data quality and enhance reporting.

**Governance and Compliance**
- Work within all current Governance and Compliance frameworks, ensuring all relevant processes are up to date, compliant and documented.

**Relationship Management**
- Work closely with internal and external stakeholders as a recognized Finance process expert.

**Qualifications, skills and experience**:
**Required**
- A part qualified accountant with experience of a financial control environment including knowledge of month end processes, intercompany, reconciliations/substantiations, and fixed asset reporting.
- IFRS accounting knowledge preferred.
- Experience of working with a finance shared service provider.
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment preferably in Europe.
- Good written and spoken English.
- Excellent communication & networking skills, quickly able to establish credibility with stakeholders.
- Self-driven and motivated to succeed with the ability to prioritise workload to tight deadlines.
- Audit, risk management and compliance experience.
- Experience with the following system would be advantageous: Trintech Cadency, Hyperion, SAP, S4Hana, BOFC.
- Ability and willingness to travel.

**Key competencies**:

- Personal motivation - ability to work on your own initiative. Demonstrate passion, enthusiasm and commitment.
- Workload management and prioritisation - Ability to demonstrate methodical and systematic workload management.
- Communication - show ability to work with multiple stakeholders, recognising different needs.
- Influencing - position yourself to have influence and have real authority in the R2R process.
- International business management skills - having the ability to work over cross border environments and the ability to adapt to and communicate in differing cultures to achieve standardised business solutions.

Honda is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in the workplace for all employees, temporary workers, contractors, applicants and visitors. Hon

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