Financial Accounting Lead - Hamilton, United Kingdom - Finsbury Food Group

Finsbury Food Group

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Hamilton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Location:

_Hamilton_**
Shift:_Weekdays _**
Salary:_Competitive with Opportunity for Growth_**We have an exciting opportunity for a Financial Accounting Lead to join our Finance Team at Hamilton for 9 months.

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time.

We make 75% of the UK's sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we're in business.

Baking brilliance makes every day special.

The Financial Accounting Lead is responsible for the provision of accurate financial reporting across the Hamilton, East Kilbride and Cardiff sites, whilst ensuring a culture of continuous improvement surrounds financial processes, controls and governance.

They will assist the Financial Controller with the day-to-day running of the financial control function, as well as providing key support during external and internal audits.

This role is based at our Hamilton site with hybrid working as an option.

On occasion you may be required to attend one of our other sites for meetings, therefore willingness to travel is essential.

This is a great opportunity for someone to gain experience with one of the UK's largest bakery businesses.

They'll work closely with a friendly and engaging team from both a site and group perspective, offering opportunities for growth and long-term career development.

This is what you'll actually do

The Financial Accounting Lead will have a strong focus on financial controls across the three Cake entities, ensuring they are continually reviewed and enhanced to meet the evolving requirements of the business.

They will be responsible for completion of monthly balance sheet reconciliations and attending monthly reviews with the Operational Finance and Supply Chain Finance teams.

To be successful in this this role, they will be required to deliver accurate, robust and insightful financial reporting in a timeous manner.

Also deliver complete and accurate balance sheet substantiations, As well as continual development of processes and controls to ensure excellent financial governance.

Ideally this is you
- _Degree in accountancy or similar relevant qualification_
- _Newly qualified accountant (ie ACCA/CIMA) or part qualified/QBE depending on experience_
- _Has a passion for excellence_
- _Excellent focus on process and procedure development and enhancement._
- _Consistent accuracy and attention to detail_
- _Strong communicator and relationship builder_
- _Strong determination and shows tenacity when facing challenging situations_
- _Strong stakeholder management_
- _Able to prioritise multiple tasks to tight deadlines_
- _Excellent Excel Modelling skills_
- _Prior experience with complex ERP and P2P systems_

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this.

Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals.

We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more