Finance and Accounting Associate

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Purpose: 
The Finance and Accounting Associate role will be a key member of the Elanco UK finance team.

This is an entry level role and will offer the candidate an opportunity to join a high performing, globally recognized finance organization, supporting the highest standards of internal and external financial reporting, controls and compliance for both our UK and Irish legal entities.

This is being posted as a fixed duration contract with an initial contract period of 12 months.

The Company recently acquired a manufacturing site which has approximately doubled the size of the UK headcount and increased the scope and complexity of internal and external reporting obligations.

We are also in a period of stabilization and integration of systems, processes and controls. 

Elanco UK is a material component of the Elanco US Listed Group with multiple reporting streams including Manufacturing, IT, Quality, Regulatory, Regional commercial functions and our Commercial sales and marketing division.

Our Irish legal entity holds a unique status as a largely intercompany operation holding inventory in many European countries. 

Location: Hook, Hampshire, UK.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:
The focus of this role includes the following: 

•    US GAAP accounting: the finance associate will support many aspects of the month end close process for both UK and Ireland legal entities, including ownership of certain general ledger accounts, journal postings, account reconciliations.

It will include the preparation of the functional income statement report for monthly finance review.

 
•    Supporting the monthly accounting for payroll, revenue and gross to net, leases.
•    External financial reporting: supporting the financial statement preparations, GAAP to Stat and annual audit.
•    Other external reporting: supporting the Companies’ compliance with all other financial reporting obligations including but not limited to Payments Reporting, ONS returns, Environmental reporting.
•    Purchase to Pay: supporting the administration of ...