GL accountant/ Certified Management Accountant

AB Agri Ltd; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join AB Agri as a GL Accountant/ Certified Management Accountant and play a key role in managing financial records in a collaborative environment. This role supports month-end closing activities, ensures compliance with accounting standards, and entails preparing management accounts. Your expertise in financial reporting and your ability to work in a hybrid model will contribute to continuous improvement in financial processes.

Benefits

Benefits package to support wellbeing

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (e.g., CMA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA).
• At least five years of experience in a corporate finance environment.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and VAT reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full cycle of financial accounting tasks.
• Prepare and finalize management accounts and reports.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations and VAT reporting.

Skills

Financial Reporting

Analytical Skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Microsoft Excel

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: GL accountant/ Certified Management Accountant

Location: Rotterdam - Hybrid

Salary: Salary from €45,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact

Contract: Contract: 1-year probation period with the possibility of a permanent position based on performance.

AB Vista is a UK-headquartered animal nutrition technology company, founded in 2004. It is a global leader in feed enzymes and a major supplier of natural betaine. The company serves the poultry, swine, ruminant, and aquaculture sectors with innovative products and technical services, backed by significant R&D investment.

As an Accountant at AB Vista, you will be a key contributor to the finance team, responsible for managing accurate financial records and supporting month-end closing activities. Your role will involve preparing management accounts, performing balance sheet reconciliations, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and internal controls. Based in our Rotterdam office, you will be part of a collaborative environment that values accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement in financial processes.

Some key responsibilities will include:

• Manage the full cycle of financial accounting tasks, including month-end closing, journal entries, accruals, and prepayments to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Prepare and finalize management accounts and reports for internal and group review, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and company policies.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations and VAT reporting, maintaining accuracy and adherence to regulatory requirements.
• Handle supplier and customer setups, credit control, and expense management, including processing and monitoring company recharges and credit card transactions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support ongoing financial operations, maintain ERP system data integrity (Dynamics 365), and contribute to process improvements within the finance function.

Skills and Experience:

• A fully qualified accountant with a degree or diploma at HBO level or higher
• Proven experience as a financial accountant or general ledger accountant, ideally with at least five years in a corporate finance environment.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles, month-end closing processes, journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience working with ERP systems, preferably Microsoft Dynamics 365, with the ability to navigate and utilize financial modules effectively.
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to collaborate across teams and present clear financial information.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, including the use of formulas such as VLOOKUP, to analyse and manage financial data efficiently.

Person Profile/Knowledge Experience, any formal qualifications and necessary keys areas of knowledge or experience.
Essential	Desirable
Professional Qualifications: Fully qualified accountant (e.g., CMA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA) with a relevant degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics. Demonstrated experience in financial accounting and month-end close processes.	Comfortable working to tight deadlines and managing workload under pressure.
Technical & Systems Knowledge: Solid understanding of ERP systems (e.g. Dynamics 365). Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel (including VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, and basic formulas).	Prior experience working in small, collaborative finance teams.
Analytical & Problem-Solving Abilities: Strong numerical and analytical skills with the ability to interpret and communicate financial data effectively. Proactive in identifying and resolving issues, with a continuous improvement mindset.	Exposure to multi-country operations and working with culturally diverse colleagues.
Communication & Language: Strong written and verbal communication skills. Fluency in English is required.	Experience using Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) and Power BI for enhanced financial reporting and analysis.
Key Behaviours	Effective Communication: Clear and professional in verbal, written, and telephone communication with both internal and external stakeholders. Customer Focus: Demonstrates a service-oriented mindset and the ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced, customer-centric environment. Organisation and Reliability: Well-organised and confident in handling business administration tasks, meeting deadlines, and managing competing priorities. Attention to Detail: Maintains a high level of accuracy and quality in all work while staying focused on task completion. Adaptability and Growth Mindset: Open to learning, feedback, and continuous improvement; demonstrates flexibility and willingness to adapt to changing business needs.
Other Factors Trave, shift pattern, working hours, Licence type etc.	Travel Requirements: Occasional travel may be required to the UK or Finland (FI) for team meetings, collaboration, or training. Work Arrangement: Hybrid working model with a minimum of two days per week in the office (Netherlands-based location).

About The Company

We’re looking for trail-blazers, non-conformists, innovators.

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re AB Vista an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them