EU Assistant Accountant

Job title:

EU Assistant Accountant

Company

AB Agri

Job description

The Role & Key ResponsibilitiesJob Title: EU Assistant AccountantLocation: Kings Lynn or Peterborough office (Hybrid working option)Contract: 12-13 months FTCAre you motivated to enhance your expertise in finance and thrive in a global workplace? Do you enjoy collaborating with teams across different countries and cultures? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!We are an evolving international business, focused on offering high-quality products and services to the European market. As we continue to expand, we are seeking an enthusiastic Assistant Accountant to join our finance team to cover a secondment for 12 months.This role will focus on providing financial support and reporting for our business units in the UK, Netherlands, and Spain, ensuring efficient financial processes and partnering with Local Management Teams to ensure business success.What you’ll be doing:

• Ensure accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash / payment processes are completed accurately and on time.
• Ensure intercompany balances are reconciled and settled on time
• Accurate completion and return of credit card expenses, including reconciliations to statements, posting to financial system and coding costs including VAT in a timely manner
• Preparation of month end reports including accruals, prepayments and journals, balance sheet and bank reconciliations and corresponding backup information
• Provide VAT, tax and intrastat reporting on a timely basis
• Input fixed assets onto Sage, maintain fixed asset register including rolling asset audit schedule and run depreciation
• Support the stock take process, monitor and review all stock movements and reconcile back to the General Ledger and PMS.
• Be involved in the design, implementation and maintenance of robust group financial control systems, processes and structures to support ABF’s Financial Control Framework.
• Maintain the Financial Control Framework requirements for annual and ad hoc tasks, ensuring annual tasks are completed according to the timetables and required back up is recorded.Ensure period end task lists cover all requirements for Audit
• Support internal and external audits in UK and NL, ensuring files requested are provided in a timely manner and reviewed for completion.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in an accounts role within a private sector organisation.
• Highly skilled in using Excel and other Microsoft packages.
• Confident working across locations with different cultures and languages.
• Sage experience desirable.
• Experience of AP / AR is highly desirable.

This is a great opportunity for an accounts professional to gain exposure to an international role. This role will support Netherlands, Spain and UK sites and therefore may require some travel to both the Spanish and Netherlands sites.Skills & ExperienceNot SpecifiedAbout The CompanyRewarding your PassionWhen you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.About usGermains Seed Technology’s mission is to ‘maximise nature’s potential’ by using its seed technology processing know-how and deep expertise to unlock the genetic potential of seeds for food production. At a time when pressure on land, water and resources is greater than at any time in human history, Germains exists to help our customers maximise the productivity and cost-effectiveness of their crops. Our team of around 200 people work across the USA, Europe and the UK.We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.Application NotesWe hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.Agencies and media salesAB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them

Expected salary

Location

King’s Lynn, Norfolk – Peterborough

Job date

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 05:39:35 GMT

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