Nomad Foods Limited (Nomad) is Europe’s leading branded frozen food business both in terms of sales and brand recognition with over €3bn of annual turnover. Nomad Foods produces and markets premium branded frozen food products across Europe, including Birds Eye, Goodfellas and Aunt Bessie’s in the UK.

Nomad is headquartered in the UK and listed on NYSE. It has ambitions to grow into a global consumer foods company through further acquisitions, as evidenced by the recent acquisitions in South-Eastern Europe.

In preparation for future growth, the Company is mid-way through a multi-year, enterprise-wide transformation and optimization program. Over the next few years, additional transformation phases will be implemented. The program aims to standardize, simplify and automate end-to-end business processes. This will enable key decision making and analytical capability, building a platform and organization to support future growth and provide better value for shareholders. Execution of the business transformation program will include the evaluation and implementation of a new ERP system (S/4 HANA).

This role sits in the Group Financial Reporting Team, which is responsible for the production of monthly reporting deliverables for several headquarter entities as well as the consolidated quarterly Group Financial Statements under IFRS. The team is preparing to replace its existing SAP ECC ERP which is used for head office companies and its Group consolidation system (BPC).

This position reports into the Head of Financial Reporting. This position will focus on projects impacting the team as well as taking responsibility for the Group Accounting Manual. In addition, the position will support the wider team in month end and quarter end reporting activities.

This is a 6 month fixed term contract to cover a permanent role in the team.

Responsibilities in this role are expected to change over time as the team and Company navigates change. Willingness and ability to take on a variety of tasks to support the team are expected to ensure the team remains resilient and to promote personal development.

A key role will be taking responsibility for the Company’s accounting policy manual, leading on change (e.g. adoption of IFRS 18), ensuring the manual is fit for purpose, providing technical support for users and providing training.

Project work, will require taking the lead in the team on technical accounting issues as well as either leading or supporting on other projects, such as the roll-out of S/4 HANA across the Group. Crucial to this task is ensuring project work is operated in accordance with change controls. Past projects that may occur again in the future include acquisitions, debt transactions, equity transactions and changes to hedge accounting.

Other recurring activities will include being responsible for the accounting of the Company’s Long-term incentive plans (LTIPS), oversight of hedge accounting activities, directors remuneration disclosures, and being the team liaison with internal and external auditors

In supporting the teams core objectives, the role will be expected to support the monthly/quarterly/annual close processes, meeting monthly and quarterly reporting deliverables, ensuring compliance with the Group SOX controls, supporting XBRL tagging in WDESK (Workiva platform), and reporting to key stakeholders, including the Audit Committee & Senior Management.

The activities below are illustrative of some of the other tasks in the role. It is expected that there will be a need to get involved in all aspects of the team deliverables as required.

• Supporting the team with local and overseas compliance with statutory reporting requirements
• Supporting legal entity and capital structure projects across the Group
• Integration of acquisitions
• Consolidation activities

For all activities, financial control compliance must be maintained, whilst striving for process and procedure improvement.

To achieve this, the role is expected to:

• Work with Colleagues across the Group, Shared Finance Centre (in Hammersmith) and other markets
• Support members of other Group teams and functions - mainly tax and treasury Teams
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of accounting entries through establishing working practices with Colleagues, reviewing journals and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations
  • There could at times be a need to get hands-on with journal preparation
• Complete financial controls in accordance with the controls framework as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
• Input into the Annual budget and Quarterly forecasts
• Participate in the completion of statutory accounts under FRS 101
• Work with the systems and controls teams to uphold a well-controlled change environment
• Participate in wider finance and accounting projects, including those aimed at further utilising systems including SAP and BPC

Support any other ad-hoc tasks required to meet the needs of the Financial Reporting Group and its interaction with the wider audience of Stakeholders, e.g. Auditors, Treasury, Financial Planning and Analysis, Tax, legal, Companies House, ONS

Essential

• Graduate
• Audit experience
• Qualified financial accountant (preferably ACA)
• 2-5+ years PQE experience
• Desire to pursue a career in financial reporting
• Good understanding of IFRS and Group financial reporting
• Good understanding of month end closing process (B/S reconciliations, Intercompany, Journal entries, accruals, etc.)
• Highly computer literate: strong Excel skills are a must
• Able to work under time pressure and able to manage multiple priorities
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Desire to progress in their career
• A good knowledge of financial reporting frameworks
• Strong intellect and communication skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Pro-active and self-starter
• Able to work under time pressure, manage multiple deadlines and prioritise
• Works independently using own initiative
• Ability to build relationships across multiple locations
• Ambition to learn
• Enjoys working in a team and supporting others
• Have a straightforward, open personality and an enthusiastic, positive attitude

Desirable

• Previous financial reporting role experience
• Previous FMCG experience
• Budget & forecasting
• US Listed (NYSE, NASDAQ, etc.) entity experience
• Knowledgeable of upcoming regulatory developments
• SAP FI (General Ledger), S/4 HANA, BPC (Financial Reporting) and Workiva (3^rd party reporting software) systems knowledge
• Experience with working with multiple foreign currency entities
• Understanding of the consolidation process
• FRS 101 for Company statutory accounts
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Acquisitions accounting experience
• Experience of working within a strong controls framework (e.g. SOX)
• Ownership/lead/management of projects