Assistant Financial Accountant (12 Month FTC)

Why Greencore?We''re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer, employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK''s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of 1.9bn. Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties. Role Purpose: Prepare financial reports and historical financial performance information to enable others to identify exceptions which require further action Key Accountablities:Reconcile balance sheet accounts from basic data to ensure the balances are in line with accounting standardsCreate journals from basic data for approval and processing within the general ledger to assist in the preparation of the monthly financial statementsValidate expenses and petty cash claims to ensure approval is granted and is within group guidelinesProduce and submit statutory returns such as Office of National Statistics (ONS), Intra Stat, VAT from the relevant raw data to ensure compliance with financial standardsInvestigating account detail, responding to queries and account variances, to provide information and insight for senior managementKnowledge, Skills and Experience:Attainment of or studying towards a recognised accountancy ..... full job details .....