Trainee Accountant

**Nature, nurture and wisdom**

We believe nature holds the key to our emotional and physical wellness, providing gentle yet effective remedies. At Nelsons, we harness these powerful ingredients and infuse them with centuries’ worth of expertise to offer traditional treatments for a modern world.

We’re an award winning, family-owned business, whose passion for providing natural healthcare choices since 1860 continues to drive us today. Nelsons is one of the UK’s leading and Europe’s longest established manufacturer of natural healthcare products, having built up an impressive portfolio including the world-famous RESCUE® Remedy and Teetha®

What’s next? Growth, and lots of it We’re experiencing a significant and exciting period of digital transformation and we’re looking for talented, ambitious individuals to help drive meaningful impact across the business.

**The Role**:
We’re looking for a new Trainee Accountant to join our finance team. This role offers a fantastic opportunity for a recent graduate or someone looking to advance their finance career.

We’ll support you every step of the way to becoming a fully trained Accountant. This includes coaching, courses, exam support & study leave, we’ll work with you to design the best programme of learning that best supports your job responsibilities & your own needs.

Directly supporting the Overheads Financial Controller you will have great exposure across the finance function including (but not limited to) month end accounting, budgeting and forecasting.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Calculating and posting of month end journals, including accruals, prepayment and reclasses
- Processing monthly depreciation and prepare capital expenditure spending reports
- Ownership of several balance sheet accounts including balance sheet reconciliations
- Supporting in the preparation of the monthly management pack
- Finance administration duties including purchase order creation, goods receipting, vendor creation
- Assist the Overheads Financial Controller with production of forecasts & budgets.
- Play a vital role in year-end procedures, including preparation of year end audit support files
- Adhoc tasks and reports

**Requirements**:
**We’d love you to have**:

- Willingness to learn and develop within the role
- Great attention to detail and organised
- Ability to improve processes, with a focus on efficiency and clarity
- Good level of Microsoft Excel knowledge including vlookups and pivot tables
- Experience in SAP and workday adaptive an advantage but not a necessity

**Benefits**

**What’s on Offer**:
Annual bonus

25 days holiday per year PLUS Christmas shut down - whoop

Free products and staff discounts to keep you healthy and happy

3pm Friday finishes ALL YEAR ROUND (if you have done your work, obvs)
- Hybrid and flexible working

✨ Paid days off to volunteer for some awesome charities

Cycle to work scheme

We also have regular socials plus all your standard stuff such as pensions, eye test vouchers and season ticket loans. We can tell you all about what is available to you when you start

Nelsons is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. We are interested in every individual bringing their whole self to work and this includes you