Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant

Job Objective

Prepare and complete daily/weekly/monthly production reports and aid with the weekly accounts process. Ensure all relevant reconciliations are completed on time and accurately. Provide support to the Operations Control team to achieve the tasks required, by running and analysing reports accurately and following up with relevant personnel.

Duties and Responsibilities

· Prepare & review daily/weekly/monthly production reports

· Run ERP general queries and tasks

· Post financial accounts journals

· Update weekly KPI dashboard

· Monthly accounts reconciliations

· Update financial reporting system data

· Stock Reconciliations and reviews

· External coldstore report reconciliations and follow up

· Standard usage variance reporting

· CSO Reporting

· Projects data input and review

· Ad-hoc as required

Behave in a manner that supports and demonstrates Company values, Challenge, Sense of Urgency & Openness

Requirements

Experience

· Experience with Excel to an intermediate\advanced level – lookups, pivot tables, sumifs etc [Essential].

· Business acumen and an understanding of finance\production\inventory related systems. [Essential].

· Prior experience within a manufacturing organisation - ideally within FMCG. [Advantageous].

· Prior experience dealing with reconciliations and large volumes of data. [Advantageous].

Experience in ERP Systems; Navision, PioSys [Advantageous]

Educational Qualifications

· Minimum Level 7 Business or other qualification [Essential].

· Newly Qualified/Part Qualified Accountant (ACCA, ACA, CPA, CIMA) [Advantageous].

· MS Office/ECDL/Excel or other database qualifications [Advantageous].

Skills and Competencies

· Attention to detail.

· Excellent numerical accuracy with an eye for detail and spotting errors

· Analytical – ability to analyse large volumes of data and draw key conclusions from same.

· Finisher – ability to complete tasks. Can demonstrate tenacity and determination to see tasks through to a conclusion.

· Ability to handle multiple competing deadlines.

· Promotes confidence and a positive attitude through honesty and professionalism in all interactions.

· Relationship Building – ability to build relationships across the business at all levels to deliver business objectives and results.

· Demonstrates effective use of listening and questioning skills while displaying openness to other people's ideas and thoughts.

· Continuous improvement mindset – always looking for ways to improve processes and outcomes.

Proactive and clear communication skills across all levels of the organisation and through all forms of communication – written, spoken etc.
Challenge – ability to constructively challenge to gain understanding and achieve improvements.
Curious – curious about how systems and processes work and how to optimise same.

· Self-motivated and able to act on own initiative.

· The ability to work effectively as part of a team.