AddressThe Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Management Accountant - AB Dairy (part of AB Agri)
Location: Peterborough, Cambs, UK - Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Are you studying ACCA, CIMA or AAT? Do you have Management Accounts experience and looking to grow your business partnering and commercial exposure? This is a great opportunity to join the AB Dairy finance team providing our B2B division with financial support - Trident MicroNutri, Trident and Amur. Its an exciting time to join us as AB Dairy continues to grow rapidly and we expand our product offering to our farm and business customers.
Reporting to our Finance Business Partner in a small tight knit team, you will work closely with the FD, FC and Head of Business Performance on a daily basis and build positive relationships with your internal stakeholders in operations, product and category management. This will be a varied, hands on role that will involve overseeing the general ledger and making any adjustments, accruals and prepayments as necessary and reconciling the accounts to preparing Management Accounts and coordinating the budget and forecast process for your divisions.
If you have Management Accounts experience and some stakeholder management experience looking to build on your finance career, this would be a great opportunity for you. We are able to offer support, training and development to the right candidate, with great opportunities to progress in the future.
What you'll be doing:
- Responsible for accurate and robust reporting including calculation & posting of all journals and any ad-hoc invoice coding
- Preparation & management of balance sheet reconciliations
- Controls – Monitoring compliance with the Financial Controls Framework
- Build professional relationships with your business area's to influence, engage and continually promote business performance
- Prepare & submit monthly/quarterly/annual returns
- Management Reporting – regular reporting of various B2B product lines and Global Dairy financial statements, including variance analysis commentary.
- Preparation of budgets and forecasts
- Assist the B2B Finance Business Partner, Global Dairy Financial Controller, Global Dairy Head of Business Performance, as well as other members of the Global Dairy Finance team, with ad hoc requests and provide cover where necessary
What you'll bring:
- Part qualified accountant - ACCA/CIMA or AAT qualified
- Proven Management accounts experience
- An understanding of and ideally some experience of Budget and forecasting processes
- Good analytical skills
- Strong Finance system experience
- Advanced Excel skills
- Diligent with good attention to detail and curious with a continuous improvement mindset
- Ability to work towards tight deadlines and prioritise
If you are looking for an opportunity to grow your finance skills and experience with a successful and collaborative team, please don't hesitate to apply!
About The Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
We’re AB Agri, part 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 Notes
We 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 sales
AB 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.
