Senior Accountant UK & Nordics

At Bristol Myers Squibb our employees often ask Who are you working fora question that fuels collaboration accountability and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover develop and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work opportunities for growth and a supportive environment that values inclusion wellbeing flexibility and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients and the careers of those who do it.

Bristol Myers Squibb European Capability Centre

• Eligible for participation in the companys annual bonus plan
• Family cover healthcare
• Attractive contributory pension scheme
• Hybrid working 50% home / 50% office giving you flexibility and balance
• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays plus festive shutdown
• Career and qualifications support we invest in your growth
• Modern officewith a range of on-site benefits including on-site parking

What if your next accounting role actually felt significant

Not just technically challenging but genuinely significant. The kind of role where you can see in real terms how the work you do every day connects to something far bigger than a balance sheet.

Thats what this is.

Were looking for a Senior Accountant to join our Global Market Controllership team based at our Chester office and if youre a finance professional whos built serious expertise over a decade or more and youre ready to step into a role with real scope real influence and real impact this is worth your full attention.

So what makes this role different

Lets be honest a lot of Senior Accountant roles promise variety and exposure and deliver spreadsheets and sign-offs.

This one is different. Here youre not just supporting the business - youre a critical part of how BMS operates across the UK and Nordics markets. Your work ensures that the financial foundations of a world-leading biopharmaceutical company are solid compliant and built for growth.

When you get the close right when the audit runs smoothly when a process improvement you championed saves the team hours every quarter - thats you. Visible valued and making a difference.

What youll be doing and why it matters

Owning the Numbers That Matter

• Youll oversee month-end quarter-end and year-end financial closes - reviewing P&L and balance sheet analysis across UK and Nordic markets working alongside our Legal Entity COE Statutory COE and Hyderabad Capability Centre.

• This isnt just ticking boxes. When the financials are accurate and complete leaders at every level of the organisation make better decisions - decisions that ultimately affect how BMS delivers life-changing medicines to patients. That starts with you getting this right.

Being the Person Auditors Trust

• Youll be the key liaison for both internal and external audits as well as tax audits - managing relationships with auditors tax authorities and advisors with confidence and professionalism.

• Theres a real career benefit here too: audit exposure at this level across multiple markets and regulatory environments is the kind of experience that genuinely sets you apart - and youll build it here.

Navigating Tax and Transfer Pricing with Confidence

• Youll collaborate with the Tax COE and Corporate Transfer Pricing team to stay aligned on critical tax and TP positions and oversee Legal Entity profitability budgeting and quarterly profitability adjustment processes.

• If youve always wanted to broaden your technical expertise beyond core accounting into the more complex commercially nuanced world of transfer pricing and international tax - this role gives you a front-row seat.

Shaping How Finance Works

• This role isnt just about maintaining what exists its about making it better. Youll identify and drive process improvement opportunities within Finance and lead ad-hoc projects initiated by the Country and Regional Controllers.

• Your ideas will be heard here. When you spot a smarter way of doing things youll have the platform and the relationships to make it happen and youll see the results.

Building Partnerships That Actually Work

• Youll work across a genuinely broad network - the Controllers Team Corporate Treasury Legal Entity and Statutory COEs Capability Centres and cross-functional partners throughout the organisation.

• This is the kind of cross-functional exposure that builds the commercial acumen the stakeholder management skills and the organisational credibility that accelerates careers. By the time youve settled into this role youll have relationships across BMS that most finance professionals spend years trying to build.

Staying at the Leading Edge of Technical Accounting

• As part of BMSs Local Technical Accounting Network (TAN) youll stay connected to the latest US GAAP and finance SOP developments - collaborating with Corporate TAN to ensure the business is always ahead of the curve.

In a world where accounting standards continue to evolve this keeps your technical knowledge sharp and your professional value high.

What youll bring

Your experience and qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required; Masters degree preferred
• Professional qualification - CIMA ACCA CA or CPA
• 10 years of experience overall with at least 5 years in Finance in a global or multinational environment
• Pharmaceutical or life sciences industry experience preferred
• Strong knowledge of USGAAP local GAAP financial reporting standards and regulatory compliance
• Proficiency in SAP or equivalent ERP; familiarity with Blackline and Workiva a plus
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite; knowledge of CoPilot and Power Automate desirable

Your strengths

• Technically sharp: You know your accounting standards inside out and you know how to apply them in a complex multinational environment

• Naturally collaborative: You build trust quickly and work effectively across teams time zones and functions because you genuinely believe the best outcomes come from working together

• Detail-conscious big-picture aware: You maintain rigorous attention to accuracy while never losing sight of what the numbers mean for the broader business

• Process improver: Youre never content with thats how weve always done it - youre always looking for the smarter cleaner more efficient way

• Analytically strong: You cut through complexity synthesise information quickly and communicate your findings with clarity to the people who need them

• Adaptable: You thrive in a fast-paced evolving environment - change doesnt unsettle you it energises you

• Accountable: You take ownership - of your work your relationships and your commitments - and people know they can count on you

Why BMS Why now

Because this is a company where the work you do in Finance is directly connected to a mission that matters transforming patients lives through science.

Youll be joining a team that values expertise rewards initiative and gives you the tools the relationships and the space to grow. Based at our Chester office with exposure across UK and Nordic markets and connection to a truly global finance function this role offers the kind of breadth and depth thats hard to find anywhere else.

If youre ready to bring your best to a role that gives back just as much we want to hear from you.

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