Assistant Financial Accountant

www.topfinancialjobs.co.uk - Jobboard; Worksop; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer seeks a finance professional to reconcile accounts, assist in preparing financial statements, and ensure compliance with financial standards. Ideal candidates are attaining or hold a recognised accounting qualification, have experience in finance roles, and display strong numeracy and attention to detail.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Attainment of or studying towards a recognised accountancy qualification.
• Experience in a similar financial role desired.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines; finance system management and internal control.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile balance sheet accounts from basic data.
• Validate expenses and petty cash claims.
• Produce and submit statutory returns to ensure compliance.

Skills

Numeracy skills

Attention to detail

Intermediate Excel skills

Education

Recognised accountancy qualification

Job description

Why Greencore?

We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer, employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of 1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
Key Accountablities:

• Reconcile balance sheet accounts from basic data to ensure the balances are in line with accounting standards
• Create journals from basic data for approval and processing within the general ledger to assist in the preparation of the monthly financial statements
• Validate expenses and petty cash claims to ensure approval is granted and is within group guidelines
• Produce and submit statutory returns such as Office of National Statistics (ONS), Intra Stat, VAT from the relevant raw data to ensure compliance with financial standards
• Investigating account detail, responding to queries and account variances, to provide information and insight for senior management

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Attainment of or studying towards a recognised accountancy qualification
• Experience of working in a similar financial role
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Finance system management and internal control
• Substantial numeracy skills
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Experience of double entry bookkeeping ideal

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

Description: Why Greencore?

We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer, employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of 1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
Key Accountablities:

• Reconcile balance sheet accounts from basic data to ensure the balances are in line with accounting standards
• Create journals from basic data for approval and processing within the general ledger to assist in the preparation of the monthly financial statements
• Validate expenses and petty cash claims to ensure approval is granted and is within group guidelines
• Produce and submit statutory returns such as Office of National Statistics (ONS), Intra Stat, VAT from the relevant raw data to ensure compliance with financial standards
• Investigating account detail, responding to queries and account variances, to provide information and insight for senior management

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Attainment of or studying towards a recognised accountancy qualification
• Experience of working in a similar financial role
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Finance system management and internal control
• Substantial numeracy skills
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Experience of double entry bookkeeping ideal

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.