Financial Accountant

Overview of role

We're looking for a Financial Accountant to join our central finance team at Jordans Cereals. Reporting to the Financial Controller, you'll play a key role in delivering accurate financial reporting, leading period-end close activities for overheads, and providing the insight, planning and control that helps the business make confident decisions. This is an opportunity to combine strong technical accounting expertise with commercial understanding, working across the business to drive financial discipline and support sustainable growth.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead and take full ownership of the period end process, forecast and budget for overhead cost centres (Labour and Non-Labour), preparation and posting of journals, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to deadlines ensuring high-quality outputs.
• Collaborate with the Shared Service Centre to ensure accruals and prepayments are accurate and well controlled.
• Own the preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring strong control, integrity, and prompt clearance of reconciling items.
• Deliver accurate, high quality and insightful management information to budget holders, including detailed variance analysis and clear focused commentary.
• Act as a trusted business partner to budget holders, providing challenge, insight, and support in understanding financial performance.
• Oversee and control intercompany recharges, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and compliance with approval frameworks.
• Provide robust challenge and insight to assumptions, ensuring forecasts are realistic, data-driven, and aligned to strategic objectives.
• Produce and review GRNI and WIP reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, compliance and that risks are identified, communicated and resolved in a timely manner.
• Take ownership of the timetable, review, analysis, and calculation of PSA, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and internal policies.
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of ONS surveys and other statutory or regulatory requirements.
• Review and maintain policies, procedures and DLA in relation to Expensys, Credit Cards and Medius ensuring they remain accurate, robust and effectively applied.
• Complete cycle counts and journal postings, working closely with the inventory team to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across finance processes, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, automation, and control.
• Work closely with the Finance Manager to strengthen financial policies, procedures, and documentation, enhancing governance and reporting quality.
• Ensure compliance with internal financial controls and procedures to uphold financial integrity.
• Lead or contribute to ad-hoc projects, analysis, and strategic initiatives as required.

The Right Person

• ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified (or equivalent), with strong technical accounting knowledge (strong part qualified candidates will be considered)
• Advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP) to support data-driven decision-making
• Strong attention to detail
• Confident communicator
• A proactive mindset with strong problem-solving, ability to multitask and strong organisational skills
• Ability to turn complex financial data into meaningful business insight
• Solid understanding of controls, compliance, and best practices
• A collaborative, business-partnering approach with cross-functional teams
• Leadership presence -- able to coach, support, and escalate where needed
• A continuous improvement mindset, always looking ahead and driving change

If you share our values...

Be Bold, Be Curious, Do the Right Thing Together, Make It Happen

We can offer....

• Competitive salary
• Up to 5% bonus
• Pension Scheme - up to 10% employer contributions
• Hybrid & Flexible work culture
• Buy holiday scheme
• Discounted products
• Health Cash Plan
• Career opportunities - ABF group employs 128,000 employees worldwide.
• Discounts on over 900 retailers on our discount platform
• Group Cycle to work scheme
• Free Parking