Financial Control Projects Manager: FTC 6 months
Requirements
Requires a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with at least 3 years of post-qualified experience. Candidates should have a background in external audit and proficiency in SAP S/4HANA and advanced Excel.
Job Description
Shiseido UKI
FTC 6 months
Closing date for applications 29th September 2026
Who We Are
Operating in 120 countries with 42,000 employees and 70 nationalities, Shiseido offers a unique selection of Skincare, Makeup and Fragrance brands with a projected turnover over £7.0bn in 2022. Founded in 1872 in Japan, Shiseido Group is within the Top 5 leading cosmetics companies in the world and aims to inspire a life of beauty and culture.
Through our heritage, Shiseido constantly creates high-quality, safe and innovative cosmetics and develop brands deeply loved by people from all over the world, in line with our mission: Beauty Innovations for a Better World.
YOUR NEXT ROLE : Financial Control Projects Manager
This position sits within the Financial Control team and will be responsible for delivering a number of key finance projects, supporting process improvement initiatives and providing flexible support across the wider finance function during peak workloads
Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, this role is suited to a qualified accountant with strong technical accounting knowledge and a hands-on approach to driving change within a dynamic business environment.
The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders across Finance to improve processes, strengthen controls, enhance reporting capabilities and support key operational activities as required.
Your Responsibilities
As the Financial Control Projects Manager, Lead and support a range of finance transformation and process improvement initiatives, including but not limited to:
- Automation and enhancement of balance sheet reporting
- Development of management reporting including Travel & Entertainment (T&E) reporting.
- Review, documentation and optimisation of key finance processes and controls
- Review month end processes sat within commercial finance with the aim to streamline and move into financial reporting team
- Creation and maintenance of Risk and Control Matrices (RCMs) to support a robust financial control environment.
- Identification of opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce manual intervention and increase reporting accuracy.
Provide flexible support across the finance function during periods of peak workload including:
- Supporting the month-end close process, including balance sheet reconciliations and review activities.
- Assisting with year-end and interim audit requirements
- Providing cover and support across Financial Reporting and Transactional Finance teams as required.
- Assisting with process improvement initiatives
- Supporting business-wide requests for financial information and analysis.
We Value Diversity And Creativity In All That We Do. Your Suitability Will Come Through Arrange Of Experiences And Backgrounds. Specifically We Encourage Experiences From The Below
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with a minimum of 3 years' post-qualified experience.
- Strong technical accounting and financial control knowledge.
- Background in external audit with subsequent industry experience.
- Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, data analysis and reporting automation.
- Experience working with ERP systems, ideally SAP S/4HANA.
- Proactive, pragmatic and solution-focused approach
- Generous product allocation & discount to spend on our gorgeous products!
- Supporting the delicate work/life balance with enhanced time off through 26 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday day off + time off for when you get married or move house PLUS enhanced parental allowance for those big life moments and the chance to buy more through our holiday buy scheme
- Plan for your future with our enhanced pension offering
- We operate an annual bonus scheme, based on personal development plans and business performance
- Flexible Fridays, so you can focus on what is important to you
- Flexible & hybrid work patterns to suit all backgrounds with 60% of your time being in the office
- Wellbeing programmes including mental health first aiders, free counselling, access to digital GP’s
- Financial support via exclusive retail discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme via Wisdom – health and wellbeing, financial support at your fingertips.
- Monthly access to L&D opportunities to help your continuous development
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About Shiseido
Shiseido is one of the top cosmetics companies in the world, with a rich portfolio of international brands in 120 countries and regions. Among others, Shiseido owns the following prominent cosmetics, skincare and fragrance brands: SHISEIDO, NARS, Clé de Peau Beauté, BENEFIQUE, ELIXIR, IPSA, MAQUILLAGE, INTEGRATE, AUPRES, ANESSA and ISSEY MIYAKE. Our mission―BEAUTY INNOVATIONS FOR A BETTER WORLD―is to offer solutions to social problems and achieve a sustainable society, helping people find happiness through our mainstay beauty business. We strive to create a better world through beauty innovations, as we perceive and respond to each person's profound need for betterment in an ever-changing global environment. For more than 150 years our history and tradition have been built on distinctive innovations in each era. Today, we are taking on new challenges and making a concerted effort across the entire Group to pursue innovations that break the status quo and meet the diverse beauty values and needs of people around the world. As a global beauty company of Japanese origin, we not only develop cosmetics, but introduce and create unprecedented products and new value that go beyond. Through these activities, we realize “beauty innovations” leading to new lifestyles for consumers around the world. ※ All comments and queries will be responded to in due course.
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