Site Accountant, Site Accountant

Ballymena, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

1/15/2025

Purpose

Providing a high quality, professional and responsive first-class Accounting Service to Operational partners across the Fresh Business Unit in accordance with financial regulations, Group policies, procedures and best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• To ensure the timely preparation, presentation and interpretation (commentary) of daily, weekly and monthly site accounting reports & KPI data with relevant comparisons to budget, forecast & standard. To ensure the financial integrity of the numbers through regular review of provisions and management of on-going site assets & liabilities
• Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts
• Analyse and reconcile monthly Balance sheet
• Management of preparation of weekly KPI information for Finance Managers
• Support information requirements of Operations Managers, General Managers and Finance Managers in relation to the weekly and monthly accounts
• Assisting in the preparation of annual budget
• Assisting with Forecasting
• To oversee the preparation of site capital expenditure justifications and business cases and complete post-implementation reviews to track benefits. Ensure site capital expenditure is analysed and capital additions updated to the asset register on a timely basis.
• Track Performance vs Budget and Forecast, identifying areas for focus and improvement
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

• Qualified Accountant, or Part Qualified (final stages) or QBE.
• Excellent numeracy and computer literacy skills (data input, Excel, Microsoft Word)
• Experience of preparing weekly and monthly accounts.
• Proven Accounting Experience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills at all levels
• Strong analytical ability
• Ability to meet challenging deadlines, prioritise work and be accurate.