Finance Specialist

As Finance Clerk, you will be responsible for overseeing the financial operations for This AG / This GmbH and LUMed GmbH (subsidiaries of Rayner), ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency in financial reporting, budgeting, and control processes.

This role involves the capturing of financial transactions, preparation of financial statements, providing financial insights, and ensuring that the company’s financial practices adhere to regulatory standards and internal policies.

You will collaborate closely with senior leadership and headquarters to roll out financial strategies, improve business performance, and ensure the company’s financial health. The role also includes identifying risks and opportunities, supporting audits, and continuously enhancing financial systems and processes to drive accuracy, transparency, and compliance across the region.

What You'll be Doing

• Capture and post supplier and customer invoices in the ERP.
• Prepare and post journals for reporting monthly management accounts including profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow, provide detailed variance analysis against budget and prior year.
• Monitor manufacturing costs variances against standard costs.
• Weekly cash flow forecasting for review by Rayner HQ finance department.
• Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are performed each month or on a regular basis.
• Manage treasury function and payment management.
• Manage local payroll processes, in conjunction with HQ HR, and cloud platform.
• Managing an internal timetable to ensure deadlines are met.
• Under the supervision of the Rayner Group tax department, calculate and file local tax filings.
• Liaise with external auditors providing year end additional audit schedules as required and answering queries.
• Instrumental In local implementation and migration to new finance system 2025 (Oracle NetSuite)
• Prepare year end schedules and accounts for year-end audit, liaising with external auditors, If needed.
• Monitor research and development capital and operational expenditure against budget and ensure that it adheres to group policy.
• Allocation of payments and receipts and processing of cashbook transactions.
• Expense claim management to point of approval.
• Work with senior finance members, leadership team and budget holders to prepare the annual group budget for reporting against in the financial year.
• Review processes and propose improvements as necessary to ensure adequate controls are in place in all areas of monthly reporting.
• Accounts receivable (Including credit control) and payable. Includes ad hoc tasks as necessary to ensure payments are received and made on time.
• Handle import of data from manufacturing ERP into the financial system with reconciliation ensuring import complete and accurate.

What Experience Do You Need

• Accounting or finance qualification
• At least 5 years professional experience
• Fluent German & English
• Advanced Excel skills
• High degree of accuracy
• Able to handle confidential Information
• A team player able to network across different geographies
• Experience In systems such as Infoniqa and Majesty, Oracle NetSuite
• Experience in the healthcare Industry - Ideally In medical devices for surgery with manufacturing

What We Can Offer You

• Private healthcare
• Annual Wellbeing allowance
• Annual programme of fun events
• A voluntary and additional family allowance