Financial Accountant

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Bakkavor Full time
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We thrive on challenge and change. We rise to challenges together.

Financial Accountant

Location:
Cumberland

Business Area:
Bakkavor Meals - London

Contract Type:
Permanent

Why join us?

We're proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you'll be supported to work hard, push further and show resilience.

As a valued Financial Accountant, we'll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

What we do


We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose.

The Role


In this busy and exciting role, you will become a key member of the Meals Finance team, responsible for ensuring the business has adequate financial, balance sheet and risk controls in place.

Ensuring the accuracy of financial reporting (P&L, all Balance Sheet areas, EBITDA reconciliations and supplementary reporting) will be key

Accountabilities

VAT
Preparation of monthly
VAT return submission into Cognos. Review and analysis for its accuracy.

Cashflow & Working Capital

Monthly cashflow forecasts reflecting site WC improvement plans, analysis of weekly variances to forecast, review & analysis of inventory, debtor and creditor days, provision of commentary on WC variances to Group Finance

Month-end Submissions

Preparation of monthly financial statements from a finalised TB, submission into Cognos, preparation of supplementary reporting, provision of commentary on variances to prior month, prior year and in year

Balance Sheet Control

Review and approval of monthly balance sheet reconciliations and BV standard audit packs, escalation and investigation where necessary to resolve queries

Fixed Assets

Maintenance of BV fixed asset management software, obtaining approval for planned capital projects using BV approval system, ensuring accurate accounting on project type, asset lives, write-up process and depreciation; reviewing planned spend on live projects

About you


Ideally, will have previous experience within a similar role (manufacturing sector and / or dealing with supermarkets as customers), a professional accountancy qualification and a strong financial accounting background.

The ability to communicate effectively and influence at all levels of the organisation - will be key.

What you'll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry.

We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose.

We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team

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