We are on the lookout for an Assistant Operations Accountant to join our Financial Food division here at Princes! The core of the role will be to assist the Senior Operations Accountants in ensuring the financial accounts of assigned sites and SBA's are produced impartially, on a timely, accurate, and efficient basis, and that all necessary procedural controls and policies are duly implemented and observed.
The role is based at our Head Office in Liverpool City Centre, but due to the nature of the geographical locations a driving licence will be essential for the role. You may be required to travel once a month to Wisbech and Long Sutton.
Dimensions:
- 0 Direct Reports
- 0 Indirect Reports
- 2 Manufacturing Sites
Principal Responsibilities:
- Assist in the production of monthly management and financial accounts in accordance with prescribed formats, timescales and procedures.
- Creation of manual and automatic accruals/provisions/prepayments for all cost items.
- Posting of payroll journals once received from the Payroll team and agency. Understanding variances and investigating any issues.
- Production and posting of BBE provisions for the Ops department and challenging any commercial decisions.
- Review of overhead cost centres, full understanding of the cost profile and presenting results to factory management team.
- Raising purchase orders and posting adhoc journals as required.
- Assist in creation of assets, monitoring asset under construction balances and capitalising in line company policy and depreciation of capital projects.
- Provision of financial data and analysis to operational management, Finance Managers or Group Finance as required.
- Assist in the reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts at prescribed frequencies.
- Presentation of financial information to factory management team.
- Production and justification of factory budgets and forecasting for responsible areas.
- Interpretation, communication and enforcement of Group rules, policies and procedures.
- Identify opportunities to reduce lead-times for the production of management accounts via an ongoing plan of process improvement.
