Finance Graduate - Bolton, United Kingdom - Warburtons

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Description

Location:
Bolton
Function:Finance
Job Reference:4908
Employment Type:Graduate Programme
Closing Date:15/1/2024
Title: Finance Graduate

Function:
Finance

Location:
Bolton Head Office

Salary:
Competitive
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Are you a graduate or working towards a degree at a 2:1 level or above who is looking for a new opportunity within an exciting new role in finance?

The Recipe

The Role

  • Core Finance Processes: Ownership of core transactional processes including:
  • Weekly and period end journal postings
  • Bill of Materials management
  • Accounting for customer bonuses and discounts
  • Management of customer pricing

Reporting and Analysis:
Deliver routine reporting and provide insightful analysis supporting:

  • Promotional investment
  • Capital investment and appraisal
  • Variance analysis
  • NPD evaluation

Balance Sheet Management:
Understanding and ownership of balance sheet reconciliations.

Controls and Compliance:
Ensure that appropriate financial controls are followed and developed as appropriate, including:

  • Promotions spend processes
  • Support for internal and external audits
  • Maintenance of the Internal Controls Matrix

Business Partnering:
Builds great relationships across the business, turns data into insight and brings the numbers to life for the key stakeholders

Budgeting and Forecasting:
Plays a supportive role in the budgeting and forecasting processes, taking responsibility for:

  • Cost to serve and product profitability
  • Stakeholder reviews and inputs into the IBP process

Continuous Improvement:
Identification and implementation of improvement opportunities

Personal Development:
Commitment to professional qualification, Warburtons Leadership Programmes and other relevant personal development


Essential Ingredients

  • Willing to study CIMA / ACCA or another professional accounting qualification and progress through to qualification within 3 years
  • Self
- starter and confident working in teams

  • Good communication skills with the ability and willingness to support and collaborate
  • Strong IT literacy and experience using MS Office suite
  • Self
-organised, self-motivated, action oriented and efficient

  • Works effectively with peer group and senior leadership, managing expectations
  • Demonstrates strong analytical skills and is able to balance the need for analysis and rigour with speed of action when solving problems
  • Ability to work under pressure and deliver to agreed timescales
  • Demonstration of a "right first time" approach with close attention to detail
  • Highly numerate

Extra Dough

At last and by no means least, you will want to know what your breads worth:

  • A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
  • Family time is important to us and we know it will be to you so you have the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave.
  • Award winning pension scheme
  • Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
  • Continued investment in your personal development
  • Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew
  • Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service
  • We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.
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