Accounts Manager | Andover
Company: | Pilgrim's UK |
Location: | Hampshire |
Salary: | Competitive |
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Key Accountabilities:
- Manage and develop the onsite finance team ensuring complete understanding of processes and being the focal point for any accounting matter on site
- Own all aspects of site financial reporting to internal and external stakeholders, to a high standard and within the required timeframe
- Ensure accurate production of weekly and monthly P&Ls, with commentary and insights.
- Responsible for check and review all the account entries on SAGE
- Responsible for preparing and reviewing the annual budget (P&L and GAPs well-defined goals shared and agreed with the team)
- Complete variance analysis of site operational and commercial performance against benchmarks including budget and prior year, with understanding of key drivers
- Ownership of the site’s balance sheet including completing monthly reconciliations and ensuring the safeguarding of the company’s assets
- Work with the central audit teams to ensure compliance with, and integrity of, internal finance controls & SOX controls
- Complete, submit, understand and act upon daily and weekly KPIs for the site
- Support and challenge spend control on site including yield, labour and overheads
- Lead the site team in completing periodic budget and forecast reports with clear assumptions and ambitious targets
- Work with key stakeholders from across the site ensuring they understand the financial information and how they can influence profitability
- Understand, and where possible improve, system usage including SAP / SAGE
- Accountable for the site costings for both standard costing and tenders/new product development
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Self-driven with a proactive, energetic approach and the ability to deliver change
- Strong commercial acumen
- Experience of operating in a similar role within a manufacturing/FMCG business
- Excellent people skills with flexible interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the business
- Team player with experience in managing teams
- Be able to demonstrate expertise in all areas of commercial and operational finance
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience with Microsoft PowerPoint
The company
Pilgrim’s Pride Limited is a division of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, our business is part of the second largest food company in the world, whose team farm, process, prepare, package and deliver fresh, frozen and value-added food products for sale in more than 100 countries.
We are proud to partner with more than 1,000 UK farmers who share our belief in the highest standards on animal welfare, efficiency, and quality. Our own farming operation is 100% RSPCA Higher Welfare, making us the largest producer of higher welfare pork globally, delivering 25% of pig meat to UK consumers.