Accounts Assistant | Spalding

Key Responsibilities 

• Raising purchase requisitions for direct and indirect costs. Management of purchase order goods receipting.
• Vendor invoice management, matching invoices to purchase orders, investigating variances and coding to the P&L.
• Preparation of weekly accounts for review by the Commercial Accountant.
• Providing sales report to Commercial Managers to aid in decision making and explanation of performance.
• Supporting the Fresh Commercial Team in putting together weekly slides used by the Director of Sales during Executive Board meetings.
• Weekly KPI reporting, trending of results to track performance and cost savings.
• Assisting in weekly/monthly/annual forecasting of EBIT.
• Assisting in the annual budget process.
• Involvement in the month end accounts process including accruals, cost reallocations.
• Completion of key SOX Controls to ensure financial compliance including stock reconciliations.
• Ad hoc tasks as required.

Essential Criteria

• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience working with an ERP System.
• Good Excel Skills – intermediate understanding of formulas, Graphs/ Pivot Tables.
• Good organisation and time keeping – working to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work in a team but also use own initiative.