Senior Operations Accountant

Overview

Vacancy Name: Senior Operations Accountant

Employment Type: Fixed Term

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.

Princes Liverpool is recruiting for a Senior Operations Accountant on a 12 month fixed term Maternity Cover contract. Although this vacancy is not permanent, this is a great opportunity to gain FMCG experience and network within a leading business which could lead to being considered for future opportunities across the business. Monday - Thursday you will be working from our flagship office which is situated in the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool and then you will be able to work from home on a Friday.

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

Responsible for the financial reporting of two manufacturing sites.

• 0 Direct Reports
• 0 Indirect Reports
• 2 Manufacturing sites

• 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.
• Work closely with the sites to produce forecasts on a monthly basis.
• 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.

• Fully Qualified in CIMA
• Experienced and comfortable with Ms 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

We imagine we will get a high interest for this role therefore please apply ASAP to be considered!