Weetabix
Location
Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Firstly, a little bit about why we are the Nations favourite cereal brand!
Weetabix is renowned for its commitment to providing better breakfasts and helping people live healthier lives. They are the home to popular breakfast favourites such as Weetabix, Alpen, and Weetabix On the Go Drinks. With our world-class innovation and extensive product range, Weetabix has established itself as a market leader. As part of the Weetabix family, you will have the opportunity to contribute to this success and make a difference in people's lives.
This exciting role offers the opportunity to collaborate with the talented Group Financial Control team in preparing and consolidating financial reporting at the esteemed Weetabix Group level. Your work will play a crucial role in both internal decision-making and external reporting.
Here, you will be immersed in the finance function, gaining valuable exposure to other essential support functions, our parent company, HMRC, and external audit firms.
The ideal candidate will have the important responsibility of ensuring timely and precise group accounting, while also having the wonderful opportunity to actively participate in tax, pensions, selling, general, and administrative expenses (SG&A), and audit functions.
Closing date for applications is 17th March 2024
Requirements
The recipe
• Delivering month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial reporting
• Handling the preparation of Corporation Tax returns for the UK and US
• Preparing statutory accounts for all entities
• Coordinating external audits for both Statutory and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
• Collaborating with the wider Financial Control team to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and control through enhanced processes and systems
• Taking responsibility for the timely preparation of regular government returns for all entities
• Ensuring the timely delivery of relevant monthly balance sheet reconciliations
The key ingredients
Must have:
• Extensive knowledge of technical accounting
• Proficient in utilsing Excel, using various systems, and Enterprise Resource Planning software
• Part or Fully Qualified Professional Accounting Qualification (e.g. ACCA/CIMA)
Preferred:
• Group Consolidation, Tax & VAT, Statutory Accounts preparation,
• Audit Experience
• Experience of working in a multinational FMCG/Manufacturing environment
The Recruitment process
We will aim to shortlist within 1 week of application and are anticipating interviews will commence with a initial Teams Interview, followed by an in-person interview at our offices in Burton Latimer.
We reserve the right to close any job early where we have high volumes of candidates.
Inclusion without exception
Our differences ‘Make the Difference’ and have a ‘Brilliant People’ culture where we believe that our people can do their best work when they can bring their best selves to work every day.
We value diversity, as it sparks creativity, innovation, and ultimately better business performance.
We recruit and develop people who are best suited to the requirements of the role on offer and our talent and succession programmes are grounded in ensuring that ‘Talent Matters’ and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and are supported to fulfil their unique potential.
By joining our team, you will be part of helping ensure we continue our ‘Inclusion without Exception’ journey and help ‘Make the Difference’.
Agency Statement
We utilise our Preferred Agency Supplier Partners as and when we require additional support.
Our Sustainability credentials
Check out our sustainability credentials. Did you know all of our wheat is sourced within 50 miles of our factories and 100% of our electricity is generated by renewable energy and not to blow our own trumpet (but why not?!), but we expect to provide 3 million meals each year to Fareshare & Magic Breakfast which we are all really proud of.
We are always looking to enhance our current teams with diverse skills, experience and backgrounds; so, if your skills and experience look a little different and you believe you can add value to the role and/or Weetabix, then we would love you to drop us your CV or apply! No candidate will ever meet 100% of the desired qualifications, skills and/ or experience, but we are ambitious to attract the right talent for how we want our business to grow.
You might not be right for the role, yet but we are always looking for talented people!
Sponsorship
We are not looking at offering sponsorship for this role at this time.
Benefits
Competitive rate of pay
Up to 7.5% bonus scheme
Private Medical Insurance
Pension Entitlement: Up to 6% employee and up to 12% Weetabix
Holiday Entitlement: 25 + statutory holidays Additional days accrued at 5,10,15, & 25 years’ service.
Maximum entitlement is 29 days + bank holidays
Maternity & Adoption Provision: 26 weeks full pay & SMP/SAP/SPL up to 39 weeks (after 2 years' service)
Paternity provision: 2 weeks full pay + SPL (after 2 years' service)
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