Senior Management Accountant

PRINCES; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Vacancy Name: Senior Management Accountant

Employment Type: Permanent

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Liverpool

Business Area: Finance

Workplace Type: Hybrid

About Princes: The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

Role Description: To ensure that the financial accounts of the assigned site and SBA's are produced impartially on a timely, accurate and efficient basis and that all necessary procedural controls and policies are duly implemented and observed.

You will be responsible for the financial reporting of our Edible Oils sites, with an annual turnover of £240m across both Erith and Belvedere sites.

Key Responsibilities:

• Production of monthly management and financial accounts in accordance with prescribed formats, timescales and procedures.
• Provision and review of KPI's for the factories.
• Reconciliation of all site balance sheet accounts at prescribed frequencies.
• Creation of manual and automatic accruals/provisions for all cost items.
• Investigation of significant items of cost, variance or over-spend with operational management.
• Liaison with internal and external audit personnel.
• Reduction of lead times for the production of management accounts via an ongoing plan of process improvement.
• Provision of financial data and analysis to operational management, Finance Managers or Group Finance as required.
• Providing financial support to the factory management team in order to create financial awareness and drive out cost.
• Interpretation, communication and enforcement of Group policies and procedures.

Role Requirements:

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Experienced and comfortable with Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to communicate with staff and management at all levels.
• Experience of SAP.
• Strong focus on accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage own workload to meet agreed deadlines.
• Qualified / Finalist CIMA.

Benefits:

• Cash Car Allowance.
• Free Parking Pass.
• 25 Days Annual Leave, Plus Your Birthday Off!
• 14.5% Pension - 5% Employee Opt In / 9.5% Employer.
• Hybrid & Flexible Working - 4 Days in Office / 1 Day WFH.
• Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days.
• Enhanced Family Friendly & Carers Policies.
• Life Assurance Cover.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Critical Illness Cover.
• Learning & Development Opportunities.
• Corporate Incentive Scheme (company performance based).

At Princes we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates (including application). Please let us know as soon as possible of any additional support or reasonable adjustments you require through the recruitment process by emailing [e-mail]