Financial Accountant

Briggs Equipment UK; Cannock; Hybrid; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Financial Accountant to manage accounting for parts and engineering. This role involves overseeing cash balances, completing UK entity draw downs, and ensuring compliance with financial agreements. Ideal candidates will have strong finance and treasury experience, excellent analytical skills, and advanced Excel proficiency. Join a company that values future development, offers a contributory pension scheme, and provides profit-sharing bonuses based on performance. If you're ready to make an impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is for you!

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

Profitshare bonus

Paycare health scheme

Eyecare health scheme

High street discounts

Qualifications

• Experience with balance sheet reconciliations and fixed assets.
• Knowledge of cashflows and foreign exchange management.

Responsibilities

• Manage accounting for parts and engineering, including inventory and revenues.
• Assist with daily cash balances and cashflow forecasts.

Skills

Finance experience

Treasury experience

Analytical skills

Advanced Excel skills

Education

Part qualified CIMA

Part qualified ACCA

Tools

Excel

Job description

The Opportunity: Financial Accountant

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £40,000

Location: Cannock / Hybrid

The Briggs Equipment Group is a leading provider of asset management and maintenance solutions across the UK and Ireland. If you don't feel like you meet all of the role criteria outlined below please don't let that discourage you from applying.

The Impact you will have:

• Responsible for the accounting of the parts and engineering side of the business, including inventory, work in progress, revenues and costs etc.
• Assisting with managing daily cash balances ensuring there are sufficient funds to cover the groups commitments
• Responsible for completing all UK entity draw downs
• Responsible for reviewing and managing the UK entities cashflow forecasts including capex forecasts, HP forecasts and daybook uploads
• Assisting with consolidating all entities cashflows into a group file to determine our overall group headroom position with Wells Fargo, ensuring compliance with our ABL agreement covenant
• Weekly availability / loan reconciliations between Wells Fargo report and cashflow
• Assisting with daily reconciliations of the group ABL loan and collateral ledger to Wells Fargo portal
• Completing the monthly UK Borrowing Base Certificate for Wells Fargo
• Onboarding new entities into the UK's online banking facility
• Managing foreign currency requirements for the UK (Euro/CNY) and completion of a monthly FX tracker
• Responsible for reconciling and posting all associated transactions for our financial instrument hedges / FX forwards
• Responsible for reconciling all inter-company bank reconciliations
• Assisting with the external quarterly banking audit with Wells Fargo
• Covering for England and Wales treasury activities including bank payments, daybook, posting daily payments and reconciling the bank accounts
• Covering for any Irish Group treasury activities including, daybook uploads, draw downs, cashflow forecasts and day to day support
• Administrator for UK online banking across the Group and assist with the administration for all Southern Ireland's online banking across the Group
• Treasury support for the Group
• Other ad-hoc general ledger and treasury duties as required

What will help you to excel in this role:

• Good Finance experience (including balance sheet reconciliations / fixed assets / accruals / prepayments / forecasting / variance analysis etc...)
• Treasury experience would be preferrable (bank payments / Foreign Exchange management / forecasting / cashflows)
• Good analytical skills and attention to detail
• Advanced Excel skills (including being able to combine more than one formula together, v-lookup, h-lookup, if statement, sumifs, etc...)- this would be tested during the interview
• Part qualified /someone studying CIMA or ACCA is preferable

What you can expect from us:

• Future development and career opportunities
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions up to 6%
• Profitshare bonus based on business performance
• Paycare and eyecare health scheme
• High street discounts

What's next

• If you are interested in joining the Briggs Group then please click on the apply now button and a member of the team will be in touch
• Not sure if this is the right role for you? Please feel free to visit the careers page on our website and send us your CV speculatively for a member of the team to review
• If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you in the interview process, then please contact a member of the Recruitment team and inform them prior to attending so we can ensure these are met