Finance and General Admin Assistant

**Finance and General Admin Assistant**
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
**About Us**
First Milk is a wholly British farmer-owned dairy co-operative with a vision to create value for members by delivering long-term prosperity in the form of success, profitability, security and wellbeing.
Owned by the family farms that supply us with milk and invest capital in the business, we produce award-winning cheddar, regional cheeses and dairy ingredients, as well as marketing fresh raw milk to many other UK dairy processors.
We work together as one team, with a relentless focus on efficiency and quality, to deliver competitive total returns to our farmer members. We put customers at the heart of our business, creating value through strong, long-term partnerships.
We are currently looking for a Finance and General Admin Assistant to join us and deliver a first-class service.
**The Benefits**:

- Competitive salary
- Pension
As a farmer-owned business, our vision is to work together to deliver prosperity. Everything we do, every day, is about delivering competitive returns, security and stability for our farmers.
**The Role**
As an essential part of the team, your main responsibility is to work across multiple departments to provide an efficient, business administration support service to the Haverfordwest team.
As a Finance and General Admin Assistant, some of your key responsibilities will be:

- To reconcile bulk liquid intake
- To work across multiple departments providing administrative support as required by the department manager
- To support the automation of all manual administration processes within your remit, with a vision to be a paperless operation
- To manage the storage of all archive documentation.
- To provide administration support on the site document control management system with a vision to move this process into our company ERP system
- To process purchase orders and drive ‘right first time’ invoice processing
- To manage the onsite petty cash process
- To manage visitors
- To provide administrative support to staff welfare, including managing the new employee process, staff vending machines and staff communications
**About You**
To join us as a Finance and General Admin Assistant, you will need:

- To have a strong background in administration and/or finance administration where you can demonstrate a clear contribution to driving positive change in the workplace
- Demonstrable experience of working in a group ERP system (experience working knowledge of IFS desirable, but full training will be given)
- Demonstrable experience of working on purchase order processes with emphasis on ‘right first time’ practices
- To be able to work in a proactive manner and display a positive ‘can do’ attitude
- The ability to multi-task, understand priorities and meet deadlines
- The ability to remain calm under pressure
- The ability to identify opportunities to enhance and improve all existing functions within your remit
- A results
- and efficiency-orientated approach
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Exceptional numerical skills
- A high degree of working knowledge of Microsoft Office with emphasis on Excel
- The ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team
Other organisations may call this role Business Support Manager, Admin, Administrator, PA, Personal Assistant, EA, Executive Assistant, Office Assistant, Office Administrator, Office Admin, or Secretary.
Webrecruit and First Milk are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conductbusiness and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.