Financial Accountant

Our Shared Service Centre based out of Liverpool is a hub for transactional activity across multiple companies. Supporting some well-known brands such as Kingsmill, Pataks, Blue Dragon across disciplines including Payroll, Accounts Payable, Customer Services and IS, to name a few.

We are looking for a Financial Accountant to join us on a fixed term basis covering maternity leave.

As a Financial Accountant you’ll play a key role in supporting period-end and day-to-day finance operations, including:

✔️ Run and support period end processes with support from Central Finance Manager.

✔️ Focus on controls across the GL process and balance/site-related balance sheet reconciliations.

✔️ Support accurate completion of VAT and other statutory returns.

✔️ Process accurate reconciliation of intercompany transactions across numerous ABF businesses.

✔️ Foreign currency management, including hedge accounting.

✔️ Working capital and cash flow reporting and analysis.

✔️ Discount analysis, reporting and controls.

✔️ Further reporting requirements from other Finance teams.

✔️ Build strong relationships with Central and site-based Finance teams across ABF, in particular

around Treasury and Tax.

The Right Person

We’re looking for someone enthusiastic and detail-focused along with:

✔️ Highly detail-oriented and organised, consistently meeting accounting deadlines.

✔️ Strong communicator and effective relationship builder across varied stakeholders.

✔️ Solid technical expertise with a strong understanding of controls and processes.

✔️ Compliance-focused, with clear awareness of internal and external reporting deadlines (VAT,

HMRC).

✔️ Advanced Excel skills; SAP proficiency desirable.

✔️ Up-to-date knowledge of relevant accounting standards (IFRS 9, 15, 16) advantageous.

✔️ Ideally professionally qualified with 1–3 years’ PQE.