Financial Accountant
Allied Bakeries, Biggleswade, Central Bedfordshire
Financial Accountant
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Allied Bakeries, Biggleswade, Central Bedfordshire
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 day ago, 21 Aug | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: db5a8a7232644f828f829e9784366888
Location ref: Biggleswade, Central Bedfordshire
Full Job Description
- Lead and take full ownership of the period end process, forecast and budget for overhead cost centres (Labour and Non-Labour), preparation and posting of journals, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to deadlines ensuring high-quality outputs.
- Collaborate with the Shared Service Centre to ensure accruals and prepayments are accurate and well controlled.
- Own the preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring strong control, integrity, and prompt clearance of reconciling items.
- Deliver accurate, high quality and insightful management information to budget holders, including detailed variance analysis and clear focused commentary.
- Act as a trusted business partner to budget holders, providing challenge, insight, and support in understanding financial performance.
- Oversee and control intercompany recharges, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and compliance with approval frameworks.
- Provide robust challenge and insight to assumptions, ensuring forecasts are realistic, data-driven, and aligned to strategic objectives.
- Produce and review GRNI and WIP reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, compliance and that risks are identified, communicated and resolved in a timely manner.
- Take ownership of the timetable, review, analysis, and calculation of PSA, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and internal policies.
- Ensure accurate and timely completion of ONS surveys and other statutory or regulatory requirements.
- Review and maintain policies, procedures and DLA in relation to Expensys, Credit Cards and Medius ensuring they remain accurate, robust and effectively applied.
- Complete cycle counts and journal postings, working closely with the inventory team to ensure completeness and accuracy.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across finance processes, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, automation, and control.
- Work closely with the Finance Manager to strengthen financial policies, procedures, and documentation, enhancing governance and reporting quality.
- Ensure compliance with internal financial controls and procedures to uphold financial integrity.
- Lead or contribute to ad-hoc projects, analysis, and strategic initiatives as required.
ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified (or equivalent), with strong technical accounting knowledge (strong part qualified candidates will be considered) - Advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP) to support data-driven decision-making
- Strong attention to detail
- Confident communicator
- A proactive mindset with strong problem-solving, ability to multitask and strong organisational skills
- Ability to turn complex financial data into meaningful business insight
- Solid understanding of controls, compliance, and best practices
- A collaborative, business-partnering approach with cross-functional teams
- Leadership presence - able to coach, support, and escalate where needed
- A continuous improvement mindset, always looking ahead and driving change
If you share our values... Be Bold, Be Curious, Do the Right Thing Together, Make It Happen We can offer.... - Competitive salary
- Up to 5% bonus
- Pension Scheme - up to 10% employer contributions
- Hybrid & Flexible work culture
- Buy holiday scheme
- Discounted products
- Health Cash Plan
- Career opportunities - ABF group employs 128,000 employees worldwide.
- Discounts on over 900 retailers on our discount platform
- Group Cycle to work scheme
- Free Parking
Direct job link
https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/financial-accountant-127238935