Location
North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire | United Kingdom
Job description
Refresco, the world’s largest, multi-national soft drinks manufacturer, is seeking a Financial Accountant at our head offices in Kegworth . We offer a genuinely great workplace, with lots of personal development, career opportunities, and a competitive salary.
Refresco UK are part of the Refresco Group a multi-national independent soft drinks manufacturer with 78 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America, and Australia in 15 countries.In the UK we have 6 sites. We work with all the large UK supermarkets plus many well-known branded drinks producers.
Financial Accountant
Shift Pattern: Days Monday – Friday 38 hours – Hybrid working (2 days at home, 3 days office based)
Competitive salary, annual bonus, a good company pension, enhanced holiday entitlement plus the option to buy additional annual leave
About the role of Financial Accountant at Refresco:
The purpose of this role is to ensure the financial accounts of the company are prepared and maintained in an accurate, timely and reliable manner in accordance with Fundamental Accounting Principles, the Refresco Group Accounting Manual and the Company Act Requirements.
The Financial Accountant acts as an entrepreneur and is committed to developing high performance teams and at the same time acts as a role model in terms of demonstrating and living Refresco’s core values and behaviours.
- To proactively co-ordinate and manage the UK cash balances - Weekly cash flow forecasting in all currencies- Detailed variance analysis on forecasts to understand the underlying trends and needs of the business- Management of all outgoing payments in line with forecast - Management of group cash pool operation, planning when funds needs to be transferred on a daily basis- Liaising with the group treasury function"
- Manage and control the UK Currency Hedging & FX Process- Leading monthly steering meeting showing hedges and exposure- Understanding and reconciliation of IFRS hedging entries - Settlement of monthly deals with corporate treasury and banks- Monthly reporting and analysis of fx results within the P&L account and future outlook with hedging in place- Review of all balances included in foreign currency and ensuring they are revalued correctly"
- Administering the VAT compliance process for the UK- Monthly reconciliation of VAT returns (by entity) and quarterly filing of returns with HMRC- Identify and resolve legislative issues as they arise and seek to improve the processes of the wider team- VAT awareness within the ledger teams to ensure accuracy and compliance of returns- Support with queries raised by customers / suppliers regarding VAT"
- Administering the import and export duty process including service providers supporting Refresco UK - Accountable for ensuring accuracy of levies on import & export products- Ensuring integrity of underlying systems- Accurate & timely submission of import / export returns- Ensuring maintenance of & compliance with Refresco policies"
- Administering the Alcohol compliance process for the UK (Reviewed & Approved by the Tax manager)- Monthly reconciliation of alcohol returns (by geographical location) and submission to HMRC, - Lead alcohol steering meeting to ensure the legal guidelines are being adhered to and resolve issues- Alcohol audit process to ensure integrity of data- Support and validation of new customers for alcoholic products"
- Own and coordinate the inter co reconciliation and query resolution for the UK Business- Validation of purchasing costs and reconciliation of account with Refresco Europe for ingredients & packaging- Recording and reconciling of all financing charges from Holding- All other balances inter UK and globally- Resolution of issues and communication with group team / other BU finance"
- Provide detailed support to the Corporation Tax returns of the UK Business- Preparation of annual tax pack information- Detailed collation and analysis of tax sensitive information- Review and support tax queries with the UK Tax Manager"
- Provide information and support to the forecasting of working capital balances
- Participation or leading assigned business projects as and when required
- To have ownership of the treasury and FX functions of the business, as well as oversight and reporting of the companies alcohol and Corporation tax returns
About you:
To be successful as a Financial accountant at Refresco, you will need a good understanding of debit and credit knowledge and ideally come from a management accountant background.
- Extensive Experience of either reviewing financial records for external audit purpose or owning the audit process within an accounts department.
- Extensive Experience of preparing full statutory accounts in a large business.
- Experience in FMCG and/or manufacturing environment ideally
- Someone who is able to finding more appropriate methodologies that enable improvements in speed and efficiency without losing accuracy.
- Ability to find areas to achieve savings without compromising the company’s position.
- Very Good Technical Accounting Knowledge & up to date with recent legislations and accounting standards.
- Advanced MS Excel
- Intermediate MS PowerPoint
- IBM Cognos
- SAP experience
About Refresco:
Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.
Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees.
Refresco believes that equal opportunity for allis fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.
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