Finance Assistant

**Company Description**
Following years of accelerated growth Culina Group is now a £2.2billion+ turnover business, employing over 22,000 staff, with a fleet of more than 5,000 vehicles. Culina Group operates from over 100+ depots across the UK and Ireland, serving more than 1,000 clients over its framework of chilled, ambient, contract packaging solutions and fresh and baked goods.

**Company Overview**

**Fowler Welch** (Part of the Culina Group) operates in the fresh produce sector providing time critical logistics solutions for major retailers, growers and manufacturers across the UK.

At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thriveA place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired.

We are currently seeking a **Finance Assistant** to join our Finance team at our **Spalding** site.

As Finance Assistant you will post weekly and month end journals and assist in the preparation balance sheet reconciliations. There will be specific responsibilities relating to controlling the cash book, credit cards, and expenses along with yearend and audit tasks.

This is a full time, permanent position working **Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm** (1 hours lunch break).

Salary on offer is between **£23,000 to £30,000 depending on experience**.

**Job responsibilities of Finance Assistant include**:

- To complete daily Cashbook postings, bank reconciliations, and deal with queries
- To complete all credit card and expense administration, analysis, and postings
- To prepare PSA reconciliation and analysis for review
- To prepare and post General ledger journals
- Responsibility for set Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- To Post weekly and monthly Payroll journals and Salary prepayments or accruals
- To prepare Monthly VAT reconciliations
- To assist with the preparation of Monthly Group Reports
- To support year end analysis, reconciliations and Group submissions
- To assist in supplying information to Auditors for annual audit
- To supply data for Tax analysis and assist with queries from the Muller Tax team
- To prepare monthly, quarterly and annual returns for the Office of National Statistics

**Qualifications**
- Have excellent problem solving, analytical and organisational skills
- Be able to make decisions under pressure, and to a tight timescale
- Have a flexible and adaptable approach to working in order to meet the requirements of the business, particularly at peak periods during the year
- Be able to communicate well at all levels within the business
- PC Literate in Word, Excel and Outlook

**Additional Information**
As part of our drive to make **Fowler Welch** a great place to work. We are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.

Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.

Our People are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

- ** Annual Leave** - Competitive holiday entitlement of **20 days + 8 bank holidays**:

- **Pension scheme - **we want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirements so we offer a** **great contribution of **4.5%** employee and **4.5%** employer
- ** Life Assurance**:

- x3 your annual salary
- ** Wellness - **Via our Employee Assistance Programme** **we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year
- ** Eye Care Vouchers -** We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses
- ** Reward & Recognition -** We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the month and year, special recognition and long service awards.
- ** Everyday discounts** - via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings