Main Responsibility
This role is responsible for maintaining the global financial control processes over balance sheets on a monthly and annual basis. You will engage with a broad group of finance stakeholders, ensuring all accounts are properly owned and understood, providing advice and training to new and existing users on the established processes and systems.
As part of a project team, you will identify opportunities for continuous improvement to key finance processes, including new implementation of functionality of our accounting systems.
You will provide analysis and reconciliations of ledger balances, reported in consolidated financial statements to underlying financial information reported within Group entities on a regular basis supporting the wider finance function.
Our Ideal Candidate
You will be an aspiring professional with a keen interest in finance and accounting. An accountancy qualification is desirable, but the option is available to you to work towards obtaining a qualification while in this role. Being an impactful individual who can collaborate within a team and confidently communicate with a broad group of stakeholders is a key ability of a successful candidate. You will have excellent analytical and numeracy skills enabling you to learn and understand monthly finance processes and execute them using our IT systems as well as Excel. Knowledge of the spirits industry and/or manufacturing businesses is also desirable.
What we can offer you
1. We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
2. Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
3. Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
4. Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
5. Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
6. Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
7. Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
8. Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
9. Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1, per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
10. Learning resources to help you be your best self.