Management Accountant (FTC 18 months)

Job Requisition ID: 32843 Department: FINANCE (FINANCE) Category: Corporate - Finance Location: Date: 21 Jul 2026 Critical Needs. Immediate Action. SERB is a fast-growing global specialty pharma company designed to address rare and urgent conditions by delivering life-saving medicines when time and complexity leave no room for failure. We operate end-to-end across 100+ countries, ensuring 70+ essential medicines for rare diseases, emergency care, and medical countermeasures reach patients and clinicians with urgency – wherever and whenever they are needed. Shaped over the past 25 years by an entrepreneurial, disruptive spirit, SERB combines the focus and agility of a biotech with the scale, reach, and reliability of a global pharmaceutical company — always grounded in medical purpose, not corporate convention. Our 600+ employees are driven by three core values: Patients first, always Patients are not a concept — they are why we act, especially when time matters most. Impact focused We are agile, entrepreneurial, and disciplined - working smart and learning continuously to deliver results that matter, with the consistency, quality, and trust that critical care demands. Team powered We go the extra mile - together - because our shared commitment drives extraordinary outcomes. Guided by a clear ambition and a relentless focus on patients, SERB continues to expand through selective, innovative acquisitions, launching new treatments and entering new geographies. Across every step — from integration to delivery — our people act with passion, ownership, and determination to ensure life-saving medicines become available to patients who need them, worldwide. Main Purpose To control the financ ial ledgers of Veriton Pharma Limited (“Veriton”) and its subsidiaries To analyse and report on financial data to ensure stakeholders receive timely, accurate and relevant information to enable them to make effective decisions To ensure accurate prepar ation of all statutory and ad hoc reporting requirements To maintain key data sources and master data To assist in other UK finance matters, where required and as suitable to the role and capacity Responsibilities of Job Core finance Maintaining reliable and accurate accounting records, including posting month-end adjustments such as accruals , stock adjustments and provisions , prepayments, depreciation and similar Preparing or reviewing P&L and balance sheet reconciliations , and other month-end and year-end close reports Producing monthly management accounts and supporting analyses, including ad hoc analysis as required Preparing and assisting with all statutory reporting requirements including annual reports, corporation tax and VAT returns, national statistics etc Acting as primary contact for Veriton’s audits and tax inspections etc M onitoring and maintaining cash balances Reviewing payments and sales order requests Assistance with budget and forecast preparation Team support Line manag ing Veriton ’s A ccounts C lerk , responsible for accounts payable and cash book processing , credit control and similar Providing o ccasional cover, as needed, for Accounts Clerk Suppo rting the wider Weybridge team with finance matters Data management Maintaining and reconciling key data sources for commercial Power BI reporting Maintaining master data , such as mapping tables, which support the reporting environment Other Administering key finance systems ( e.g. Sage 200, Sicon Approvals , Concur, online banking) Assisting with system change activities Ad hoc tasks as required The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list, and you may be required to undertake any other reasonable duties compatible with your experience and competencies. This description may be varied from time to time to reflect changing business requirements. Person Specification Essential Qualified accountant ( i deally ACA , ACCA, or CIMA ) Advanced Excel skills : Essential: Very comfortable with core functions such as Pivot Tables, SUMIFS, X LOOKUP etc , text functions, and with working with complex formulas which combine multiple functions to manage large data sets. Very d esirable: E xperience with Power Query and Power Pivot , and advanced functions such as FILTER, SUMPRODUCT etc Highly financially and linguistically literate Diligent and methodical with good attention to detail Commercially aware, and interested in understanding the business Ab ility to work to tight deadlines and manage different priorities. Desirable Experience of Sage 200, or with other similar accounting packages Experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry. Key Performance Indicators Accuracy and timeliness of management reporting Efficiency of audit process, minimising identified misstatements etc Quality of relationships with stakeholders Working location and travel requirements The role is based in our offices near Weybridge in Surrey . Current working practices require 3 days a week on-site, 2 days remote. This is subject to change at the company’s discretion , but is currently expected to continue for the foreseeable future. S erb Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity employer. We offer competitive compensation & benefit packages, challenging opportunities and a culture of working together in a supportive way built on our strong foundation of values.