Management Accountant

Pilgrim's

  • Spalding, Lincolnshire
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 13 days ago
The VacancyPilgrim’s Europe is the UK’s leading food solutions business, supplying all major food retailers, wholesalers and food service companies with a wide range of quality meat products. If you have an appetite for more, this could be the role for you.We have an exciting opportunity for a Management Accountant to join our office-based Finance Team at our Spalding SiteReporting to the Site Accountant, as a Management Accountant, you will be responsible for supporting the accounting and financial control over the company’s SG&A cost base, including weekly and monthly reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. Additionally, the role will support central financial control and compliance activities covering the wider business, including GRNI management and SOX compliance.This position requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure timely and effective financial control throughout the business.You will be responsible for and required to undertake the following duties:
  • Assist in the preparation of month end files
  • Analyse data, investigating & reporting on anomalies
  • Involved in budgeting & reforecasting process
  • Business Partner to central budget holders
  • Prepare monthly journals
  • Support in checking Site monthly submissions are SOX compliant
  • Support central monitoring and validation of site level controls
  • Complete detailed balance sheet reconciliations
  • Oversee annual asset verification process
  • Investigate central GRNI liaising with stakeholders to close out
  • Support in the role out any initiatives to the sites
  • Follow lean thinking principles and make suggestions for improvement so that better ways of doing jobs are identified and implemented.
  • Apply problem solving techniques to resolve problems and recommend improvements to maintain costs at a planned level
  • Provide an excellent customer service by building strong relationships at all levels of the business
  • Continually developing own skills through attending Company training
  • To communicate at all levels sharing information, knowledge, instructions, advice, support and understanding
  • Assume overall responsibility for the safety of self, whilst at work ensuring that all requirements as trained and laid down within the Company handbook, Company Health and Safety and Hygiene policies are adhered to
  • To carry out other duties that may reasonably be requested of you to ensure the efficient running of the business
Knowledge, Skills, Experience:
  • Good communication skills
  • Strong grasp of basic accounting concepts and financial control
  • Health and Safety Awareness
  • Food Safety Awareness
  • Experience with accounting software, ideally SAP
  • Strong Excel Skills
Experience/Qualifications
  • AAT qualified and studying towards further professional qualification such as SEMA
  • Advanced excel skills with experience of financial modelling
  • Experience of operating in a business partner model, working with others to create positive business outcomes
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage with all levels of business stakeholders in the translation and understanding of financial information
  • Able to work independently
  • Good attention to detail, approachable, with experience of coaching others
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.

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