The posting
Join our ambitious team at Sony Europe BV in Weybridge as a Revenue CI and Inventory VSGA Expert! In this role, you will provide world class accounting expertise, ensuring flawless financial reporting and promoting operational excellence. This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a collaborative environment where your contributions will directly impact our success.
The role ensures accurate, complete and timely financial reporting in accordance with IFRS and company policies, supports the financial close and reporting processes, and drives process improvement and operational excellence.
Working closely with outsourced finance operations, the Expert provides technical guidance and oversight to ensure activities are completed accurately and effectively, while acting as a key technical point of contact for business stakeholders and finance teams.
You will:
- Provide subject matter expertise across Revenue, Commercial Investment (CI), Inventory and Variable SGA accounting and reporting.
- Support the monthly close, including performing and review of complex accounting transactions, reconciliations, analytical reviews and reporting.
- Monitor and review offshore deliverables to ensure accounting activities are complete, accurate, timely and compliant with company requirements. Provide operational direction on technical matters.
- Investigate and resolve complex accounting issues and support timely financial reporting and variance analysis.
- Ensure compliance with IFRS, company accounting policies and internal control requirements.
- Maintain strong accounting and balance sheet controls, including journal and reconciliation governance.
- Ensure revenue recognition complies with IFRS 15 and corporate accounting policies, including review of sales return provisions and complex revenue matters.
- Provide accounting expertise for customer rebates, marketing funds, promotional support, pricing incentives and other Commercial Investment activities.
- Provide technical expertise for inventory accounting, valuation, reserves, provisions, write-downs and devaluation.
- Review inventory balance sheet accounts and analyse stock ageing, obsolescence, inventory performance, provisions and working-capital impacts.
- Provide accounting expertise for variable selling, logistics, service, warranty, advertising and promotional expenses.
- Identify and implement opportunities for automation, standardisation, process simplification and improved controls.
- Act as a key technical point of contact for finance and non-finance stakeholders, promoting best practice and knowledge sharing across the organisation.
You will bring:
- A professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent.
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant accounting experience, preferably within a complex, multinational organisation.
- Strong technical accounting experience in sales-related income, business asset investment, stock management, and variable selling. Also skilled in general and administrative expense accounting. Has a sound understanding of IFRS and financial reporting principles.
- Strong experience of financial close, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, provisions, financial controls and management of complex accounting matters.
- Experience with financial reporting and analytical tools (Excel, Power BI).
- Experience working effectively with Shared Service Centres and/or BPO providers, including reviewing outputs, resolving issues and ensuring the quality and timeliness of deliverables.
- Good understanding of internal controls, governance and internal/external audit requirements.
- Proven experience of process improvement, standardisation, automation or finance transformation.
Desirable:
- Experience working with SAP S/4HANA or a comparable ERP.
Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista-style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack, and a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between the train station and the office at peak times.
Take a look at our video tour of the Weybridge site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwbMOzjoVA
Life at Sony
We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.
We celebrate colleagues who make a real difference through our recognition platform. We provide access to services and platforms for wellbeing, listen to our people through conversations and surveys, and offer volunteering days so staff can support causes they care about.
You can build your career around you with our learning and personal development programmes, and explore opportunities in a wide range of countries with support from our mobility team.
Bring your uniqueness to Sony
We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives who stimulate innovation and contribute to Sony’s purpose: “to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”. Bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.
We are Sony Europe
Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.
With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contribute to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.
Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.
Equal Opportunity
Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.
Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe
Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individual with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, The Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.
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