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Manufacturing Finance Team
Salary: £23,500 - £26,000 per annum
Location: Poole
Diversity matters
We are building a brand that represents the people of the world. It’s what you do that counts, and we are always looking to expand perspectives and voices to shape our future.
We see you, we celebrate you, we want you!
Who we are
You might know us as the inventors of the bath bomb, but there’s more to this great-smelling, partly employee-owned, family-run company than pioneering cosmetics. We believe our business should put more back into the world than it takes and demonstrate that capitalism can be a force for good.
The Living Wage Foundation’s statement 'a hard day's work deserves a fair day's pay' is one that we are proud to commit to in the UK. As an accredited Living Wage employer, we put our people first and fight cruel practices like animal testing, promote regeneration, and show that it is what’s inside that counts - whether that’s an ingredient in a product, or the minerals in a smartphone.
Lush Manufacturing
We are the team responsible for producing the final products available in our retail stores and digital platforms. Our operations span seven key factories in Poole, Zagreb, Dusseldorf, Tokyo, Sydney, Vancouver, and Toronto.
The Role
Forming part of the Finance team and working alongside two other Purchase Ledger Assistants, you will be responsible for day to day finance function tasks whilst working under the supervision of the Finance Manager.
Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive an overwhelming response or our business requirements change.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensuring timely and accurate recording of invoices on the accounts system, processing them onto the paperless office approval system, and verifying pricing while obtaining authorisation for all invoices in a timely manner
- Keeping supplier accounts up to date, including sending payment remits as required, reconciliation of supplier statements and answering any queries
- Preparing weekly payment runs (GBP) and twice monthly payment runs for other currencies
- Processing of proforma payments & chasing of final invoices to process
- Answering coding and document queries raised by the team on both POs and S&A payments
- Monitoring & reporting on AP Aging and GRNI balances
- Amending access, creating new users on paperless system and answering user queries
- Assisting company Credit Card users with queries and changes needed
- Preparation, payment and reconciliation of Expense claims, including expense claims in advance as and when required
- Agreeing intercompany invoices received from Retail, Ltd, CW & Digital and raising queries where needed
- Analyse financial transactions for specific accounts as part of the month-end closing process
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 1 - 2 years experience in a finance role and working in a team
- Experience with systems including Therefore, QAD, ABBYY and Google Suite would be advantageous
- Strong Excel, IT and online banking skills
- Great communication skills and a friendly telephone manner
- ‘Can do’ approach with the ability to work as part of a team and build and maintain relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Culturally, someone who is interested in Lush and our ethics
- Studying towards finance qualification is desirable but not essential (study support may be available)
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Study support available for accounting qualifications
- 6 months’ full pay for parental leave (primary caregiver)
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Bonus scheme
- Day off for weekday birthdays
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 50% discount on Lush products and spa treatments
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted rail and bus season tickets
- Employee assistance programme
- Financial childcare support on return to work
- We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence, contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.
- Support groups, film nights, yoga, meditation sessions and much more
About Lush
Since establishing in 1995 in Poole, Dorset, Lush has been driven by innovation and its ethics.
Creators of pioneering beauty products such as the fizzing bath bomb, shower jellies and solid shampoo bars, we place emphasis on fresh ingredients like organic fruits and vegetables, fight against animal testing and combat over-packaging by developing products that can be sold ‘naked’ to the customer without any packaging.
We currently operate in 52 countries with 928 global shops. Through our separate business divisions we invent, manufacture and sell our handmade products direct to our customers through our own shops and online. The fact that we make all our products by hand is something we are really rather proud of!
Lush is 10% Employee Owned since 2017 and our people are the heart and soul of our business.
In the UK we currently have offices located in Poole, Dorset and Soho, London.
Creators of pioneering beauty products such as the fizzing bath bomb, shower jellies and solid shampoo bars, we place emphasis on fresh ingredients like organic fruits and vegetables, fight against animal testing and combat over-packaging by developing products that can be sold ‘naked’ to the customer without any packaging.
We currently operate in 52 countries with 928 global shops. Through our separate business divisions we invent, manufacture and sell our handmade products direct to our customers through our own shops and online. The fact that we make all our products by hand is something we are really rather proud of!
Lush is 10% Employee Owned since 2017 and our people are the heart and soul of our business.
In the UK we currently have offices located in Poole, Dorset and Soho, London.
