Overview of role

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