Finance Administrator

Finance Administrator

We’re looking for a Finance Administrator to join our Ferrero Cork Finance Team. As a Finance Administrator, you will play a pivotal role tracking, managing, and accounting for Ferrero Cork’s Fixed Assets, Inventory and Transfer Pricing.

You will support Departments with their costs, budgets and forecasts while ensuring compliance with internal controls, accounting policies, and relevant accounting standards (e.g., GAAP/IFRS).

From generating inventory reports for management to supporting month-end and year-end reconciliations and working with internal and external Audits by providing requested documentation and explanations, you`ll play an integral role in the Ferrero Cork Finance Team.

• The role is responsible for maintaining and updating the Fixed Asset Register, including additions, transfers, disposals, and impairments and conducting periodic physical audits of Fixed Assets and investigate discrepancies.
• Engaging and Partnering with Department Leads, you will foster collaboration and continuous improvement while tracking spendings, actuals, forecasts and budgets.
• An important part of this role involves ensuring compliance with internal controls, accounting policies, and relevant accounting standards (e.g., GAAP/IFRS).
• The Finance Administrator will assist with month-end and year-end close activities related to Fixed Assets and support month-end and year-end reconciliations.
• Inventory will sit at the heart of this role, you will monitor and maintain accurate Inventory records across all storage locations, perform regular Inventory counts (cycle counts and full physical stock takes) and reconcile discrepancies. The Finance Administrator will investigate Inventory variances and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence and coordinate Inventory transfers between locations and ensure proper documentation. In addition, the Finance Administrator will generate Inventory reports for management, including stock valuation, stock aging, and usage trends.
• You will contribute to internal and external Audits by providing requested documentation and explanations.
• In addition, this role supports Transfer Pricing activities, using approved Production Plans.
• Understanding cycles and models in the production system (SAP) and calculating an industrial costing of semi-finished and finished products will form a key part of your remit.
• Finally, this role involves supporting the Finance team as requested.

You will bring a relevant 3rd level qualification.

A willingness to learn, share best practices, and collaborating openly with others is essential, along with experience in SAP. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and numerical skills with attention to detail and will have excellent computer skills particularly Microsoft Excel .

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Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com.

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.
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