Finance Assistant

This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's leading FMCG businesses with solid progression opportunities and great benefits to match We offer hybrid working whereby two days a week you will be office based in the prestigious Royal Liver Building in Liverpool (Monday is a anchor day) and then three days a week from home.

**Benefits**
- Hybrid Working (x3 days WFH, Monday is a anchor day in the office)
- Competitive salary
- Princes funded study support available
- 14.5% Pension (Princes contribution of 9.5%)
- 10% Corporate Incentive Scheme/Bonus
- 26 days Annual Leave including x1 day for your Birthday + Bank Holidays
- Flexible holidays - the option to buy/sell x5 days Annual Leave each year
- Core Hours - flexibility within your working hours
- Enhanced Family Friendly Policy
- Critical Illness Scheme

**Job Purpose**
- Manage, control and maintain the distribution costing system to enable accurate costings to be reflected in tenders, budgets, forecasts and reporting actuals.
- Assisting Supply Chain Analysis Manager & Logistics Analyst with month end accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Implementation and changes in the DC system due to new routes to market, product streams, contracts negotiated and reporting sectors for both the UK and European markets.
- Develop new methods of costing routes to market to enable cost allocation down to product level to ascertain more accurate customer profitability analysis.

**Job Dimensions**

The role has contact with Princes financial teams up to and including controller level for both the UK and European markets. The key point of contact within Princes for external communication when implementing a new service provider up to and including third party senior commercial Managers.

Number of sites controlled - 19
Cost responsibility - £65m

**Responsibilities**:

- Posting of month-end journals / prepayments
- Assist in the reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts at prescribed frequencies

Manage and review accruals by the costing system to ensure accuracy. The outputs from the distribution costing system which will be managed by this role are
- Reflection in tenders
- Payments to service providers
- Budget, A8 forecasting
- Scenario planning around routes to market

During new contract negotiations challenges both internally and externally to ensure that the distribution costing system is capable of accruing at the correct level.

Chairing and owning meetings and outputs related to implementing new ways of working through more accurate cost allocation and developing more visibility for the Logistics finance team to have a clear understanding of costs and variances to budget.

Working autonomously to implement new complexities & routes to market in line with internal controls, being mindful of accruals which in turn will be reported by the logistics finance team. Maximisation of the DC system and minimise the need for incremental purchase orders.

Manage reconciliation of accruals with the SAP system against proposed invoice values received from logistics service providers. Reconciliation and challenging any variances with external parties.

Key point of contact for managing interfaces with the IT logistics representatives in relation to all aspects of change to the Distribution Costing system.

Responsible for maintaining back up documentation for changes to the DC system which will be audited by both internal and external auditors throughout the year.

Creation of new vendors to be paid for logistics activities in line with internal & external controls.

Raising invoices on a regular basis for clams which arise in the supply chain.

**Experience Required**
- Studying for a professional qualification / Working towards or qualified AAT / Graduate within relevant Degree
- Proficient in excel
- Understanding of key accounting concepts and how secondary distribution costs affect customer profitability
- Able to work to tight deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Desirable - Excellent understanding of Supply chain theory and cost principles. - covering warehousing, distribution, forecasting and stock control
- Desirable - Understanding of retail customer and Princes supply chains
- Desirable - Experience of SAP

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Flexitime
- Life insurance
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Liverpool

Reference ID: Finance Assistant RLB

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