Sterling Pharma Solutions
Business Accountant
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Business Accountant
Location: Dudley, Northumberland, UK
Department: Finance
Reference: VN1376
Summary
Summary of the Business Accountant role
As the Business Accountant, you will be responsible for ensuring the site’s financial data is accurate, complete and maintained in line with group reporting deadlines. You will take day-to-day ownership of maintaining robust and reliable financial information, including the preparation and processing of monthly accruals and prepayments, ensuring accuracy and integrity in all reporting outputs.
Working closely with operational and finance stakeholders, you will play a key role in supporting business performance, while proactively identifying opportunities to improve existing systems and processes.
This role is best suited to a candidate with proven experience in a similar accounting or finance role, with strong technical knowledge and attention to detail. Candidates who are part-qualified or currently studying towards an AAT or CIMA qualification are encouraged to apply, and are open to offer some flexibility in working patterns to support ongoing study and professional development.
Your Responsibilities
- Process monthly accruals and prepayments
- Produce monthly cost centre report for the Dudley site and support cost centre owners in understanding their actual spend through to creating their forecasts and budget
- Monthly capex and stock reporting
- Ensure adherence to accounting policies, procedures, processes, and timetables set by Group.
- Sales invoicing and administration
- Update SAP product costings
- Ad-hoc reporting and analysis to provide financial insight and decision support to colleagues in Finance, Commercial, Operations and Supply Chain
- Embodying our company values, which are: be reliable, be caring, be transparent and be willing.
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Requirements For The Role
- Qualified or studying AAT/CIMA preferred
- Ability to promote a culture of devolved budgetary control, enhanced financial and commercial awareness, continuous improvement and cost control
- Experience within a similar role
- Able to identify opportunities for improvement to existing systems and methods to control costs
- Attention to detail
- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
How You Will Be Rewarded
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including bonus, pension scheme, private healthcare, Engagement Hub, cycle to work scheme, death in service coverage, on-site health and wellbeing support including medical consultations and physiotherapy, 24/7 employee assistance programme, employee referral scheme, sports and social club as well as opportunity for training and further career development.
Why consider Sterling?
Sterling Pharma Solutions is a global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) with more than 50 years’ experience in developing and manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). This is complemented by Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) research, development and clinical manufacturing services.
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We are a fast growing, dynamic business with facilities in the UK, US and Europe, where we employ talented and passionate people who support our customers in bringing new medicines to market, improving and saving the lives of patients.
Our culture and our way of working is what really sets us apart as a business; we aim to deliver an exceptional experience to our customers and our employees. You can expect to be part of a supportive team, all working towards a shared goal: to deliver first-class science and service to our customers every day.
How To Apply
If you have the necessary skills and experience to join our team, please apply online. For any queries or should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application please contact recruitment@sterlingpsl.com
Sterling Pharma Solutions is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Be caring. Be transparent. Be willing. Be reliable.
Deadline for applications: 17 Jul 2026
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