Management Accountant

British Sugar is a home-grown success story and one of the most efficient and competitive beet processers in the world. Around 3,500 farmers based in East Anglia and the East Midlands supply our four advanced manufacturing sites with eight million tonnes of sugar beet every year. We, in turn, make this in to over 1 million tonnes of sugar, serving customers across the UK, Ireland and increasingly growing commercially in the EU and world sugar markets.

   Full Time, Fixed Term Contract 12 months

Location:

Bury St Edmunds

Salary: £41,505 to £49,155

Job Purpose   Part of the Site Finance team, working with the Site Finance Business Partner & across sites to:

Deliver reporting, analysis, review, and value add activities for factory operations to enable well informed decisions to be made. Drive and develop site understanding of financial performance.
Business partner with APU teams. Support financial knowledge & understanding.
Deliver budgets & reforecasts accurately and efficiently.
Core Accountabilities   Business Partnering - Finding and delivering value; understanding and supporting partner needs; collaboration across all functions; proactive approach;

Develop financial knowledge and understanding across site, supporting, and challenging operational teams on financial performance.
Support with continuous Improvement activities and verifying financial benefits.
Have an awareness and high-level understanding of the financial impact of capitals impacting financial numbers you are responsible for forecasting.
Develop and maintain strong Business Partnering support to the key stakeholders on site (Site General Manager, APU (Autonomous Production Unit) leads, Process Leads and Engineering Leads).

Provision of Management Information and Analysis – Delivering complete and accurate financials ensuring adherence to all deadlines

Assist with production of management accounts and reports – weekly and periodically for all areas of the site.
Ensure accurate and timely information is input to JDE and our MI system. Ensure this information maintains the credibility of our management information systems and reporting.
Support the budgeting & forecasting process for all sites including the timely & accurate translation of this information into the MI system.
Analysis of costs & variances for various areas of the site.  Provide confidence in the accuracy and understanding of variances to the APU leads and their teams.
Analyse raw data for review, control and cost reduction, enabling process improvements that drive efficiency and accuracy as well as supporting overhead review and analysis.
Attend site meetings as the finance expert providing support and challenge.
Support the Site Finance Business Partner and complete ad hoc duties as required.
Support other sites’ finance teams as required.

Governance and Control

Ensure Company policies & controls are applied across all tasks and areas of responsibility.
Promote and comply with internal controls requirements, highlighting areas of development and support implementation of enhancements.
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies    
CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified / part-qualified or continuing studies.
Highly organised and disciplined with an ability to work under pressure to tight deadline.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Collaborative approach, able to build strong relationships, influence key stakeholders & challenge constructively.
Strong IT skills – particularly MS Excel with the ability to analyse large quantities of data and synthesise key messages