• Full management accounts preparation 
• Budgeting/forecasting 
• Cash flow forecasting 
• Review & commentary of variances
• Working capital management
• Product costing and cost management
• Training and developing team members
• Liaising with external auditors and assisting in all aspects of year end reporting
• Making recommendations for continuous improvement, constantly striving to improve efficiencies
• Highlighting any areas for improvement in relation to internal systems/processes

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified 
• Ideally a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience 
• Knowledge of the whole financial workflow, and have ability to support any position to cover
• Advanced excel skills
  This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a leading and successful manufacturing business so if you are looking for a role where you can really add value and look to solve problems and make recommendations, this is the opportunity for you.  This is a fast paced role where no day will be the same, so adaptability and flexibility is really important.

Salary up to c£60k plus package

Reporting to the Managing Director, the Procurement Manager will manage the cost effective procurement of all raw material and the services portfolio; covering a range of categories to support the UK site operations plus supporting procurement activity to settle key raw material contracts for the Group.

The key areas of responsibility would be as follows:

• To establish commodity knowledge, enabling the minimisation of market exposure and exploitation of market opportunity.
• To ensure security of supply through appropriate supplier selection and contracting.
• To continually drive down costs building the leveraging position and negotiating added value in all areas of managed spend.
• To ensure appropriate purchasing involvement and influence in all areas of managed spend.
• Research the market for alternative / additional suppliers for new products.
• Manage supplier performance.
• To minimise the transactional cost of buying.
• To effectively manage the administration of the procurement process.
• Carry out Internal Management Systems audits as defined by the audit schedule.
• Ensure relevant regulatory and legislation is adhered to.
• Work alongside others within the business to promote and implement the company’s policies and goals.
• Work on your own initiative as required ensuring the smooth, efficient and effective availability of financial information is available for the business.
• Be flexible to provide the required support to the Purchasing function wherever this may be required.

The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate the following:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in purchasing within a manufacturing environment.
• Proven, demonstrable track record of cost reduction.
• Professional procurement qualification (C.I.P.S.).
• Experience of buying within the manufacturing industry is preferred.
• Excellent negotiation, influencing and communication skills both internally and externally.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and build good working relationships. 
• Analytical, highly numerate and able to understand complicated costing models, market indices and price structures.
• High levels of integrity and dealing with suppliers in an ethical manner.
• Comfortable with the preparation of detailed spreadsheets and use of ERP systems in a manufacturing environment.
• Reliable, tenacious and a flexible approach.
• Clean driving licence with the flexibility to travel as and when required.
• Professional at all times.

Salary up to £65,000 plus benefits. Site based role.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, this is a newly created role. This is not a pure month end role, we are seeking someone who has a strong commercial skill set, who has great analytical capability and can support the FC and CFO with the budgeting, forecasting and the financial modelling processes.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Preparing accurate and timely monthly management accounts, including P&L analysis, accruals, prepayments and relevant balance sheet reconciliations.
• Producing and developing reporting across all sales channels and other areas of the business.
• Analysing actual performance against budget, forecast and prior periods, identifying and explaining key variances.
• Providing meaningful commercial insight rather than simply reporting the numbers.
• Supporting the annual budgeting and regular reforecasting processes.
• Developing detailed P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts alongside the FC and CFO.
• Supporting scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to help management understand the financial impact of different trading and operational assumptions.
• Working with operational managers to understand performance and challenge assumptions where appropriate.
• Analysing sales, margins, costs and profitability across all channels and business activities.
• Supporting the month-end close and ensuring reporting deadlines are consistently achieved.
• Working closely with the Financial Accountant to ensure management reporting is supported by robust underlying financial information.
• Working with the Transactional Finance Manager where issues within the ledgers affect management reporting or month-end.
• Working closely with the Systems/Data team to improve the quality, consistency and automation of financial and management information, including reconciliation between a bespoke operational system and Sage 200.
• Helping develop more efficient and scalable reporting processes and reduce reliance on manual spreadsheet-based reporting.
• Supporting the year-end and audit requirements where required.
• Assisting with ad-hoc commercial analysis and projects for the CFO and FC.
• Providing direction, supporting the development to the Assistant Accountants, delegating appropriate month-end and management accounting activities and reviewing their work.
• Ensuring work is appropriately distributed across the team so you can focus on higher-value analysis, forecasting and business partnering rather than undertaking all the detailed preparation work personally.

This is an exciting time to join the business as it navigates a period of growth and organisational reshaping / change and will allow you to be involved in the development of finance function moving forwards.

You must be able to demonstrate the following skills and experiences:

• Strong management accounting experience in a reasonably complex business.
• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, part-qualified or equivalent experience.
• Strong month-end and management accounts experience.
• Practical budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills.
• Ability to analyse financial information and explain the commercial story behind the numbers.
• Confidence working with non-finance stakeholders and challenging assumptions.
• Good understanding of P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow relationships.
• Strong systems aptitude and an interest in improving/automating reporting.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise effectively and take ownership of deadlines.
• Multi-site or high-volume commercial experience would be advantageous.
• Sage 200 experience would be useful but isn't essential.

Salary c£45,000 - £55,000 plus benefits depending on skills and experiences.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to join the business during an exciting period of growth therefore, a high energy HR Advisor is required to support the Head of HR. You will be an experienced HR generalist with a fantastic track record in handling employee relations cases. You will have experience working in a similar office-based sector and within a similar-sized organisation (250-500 people) in a role that has a broad level of responsibility. 

You will be responsible for:

• Advising and supporting managers on complex employee relations matters, including performance management, disciplinaries (up to and including dismissal), investigations, probation reviews and absence management. 
• Managing short- and long-term absence cases, including Occupational Health referrals and interpretation of recommendations. 
• Attending and supporting employee relations meetings and hearings, ensuring fairness, consistency and policy compliance. 
• Producing accurate documentation, including meeting notes and outcome letters. 
• Creating, reviewing and updating HR policies to ensure legal compliance and alignment with best practice. 
• Supporting the communication and effective embedding of HR policies and processes across the business. 
• Identifying opportunities to improve and streamline HR processes, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives. 
• Delivering training sessions and workshops to build manager capability and confidence in handling people matters. 
• Providing coaching and guidance to managers on HR policies and employee issues. 
• Supporting wider HR operations, including onboarding, engagement initiatives, annual HR processes and organisational change activity. 
• Maintaining accurate and confidential employee records in line with data protection requirements. 

You must have the following to be considered for the role:

• CIPD Level 5 qualified.
• Have strong and up-to-date knowledge of employment law.
• Have strong knowledge of HR best practices. 
• Have a proven ability to manage ER cases independently, including complex and sensitive matters. 
• Confident in influencing and partnering with stakeholders at all levels. 
• Proficiency with HRIS (preferably Dayforce).
• Have strong organisational skills with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

The salary banding is up to £40k plus the organisation offers an extremely modern and flexible working environment with a generous benefits package.

The role would suit a recently qualified accountant, ideally a first time mover from practice or someone looking for a fresh challenge in industry. You will be required to produce detailed and accurate management accounts for a number of business units and provide general assistance to the accounting team.

Your duties would include:

• Preparing monthly management accounts, plus quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and operational reviews for allocated businesses.
• Preparing journals, pre-payments and accruals.
• Reconcile relevant balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis.
• Provide general support as and when required.
• Assist with the preparation and distribution of daily sales data and other similar reports.
• Prepare and compile financial data for managers requesting information on an ad hoc basis
• Prepare quarterly VAT returns to ensure the Company pays the correct VAT.
• Collate information in response to National Statistic requests.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal departments to ensure that projects in progress’ spending is within budget while also questioning any anomalies.

Do you have the following knowledge, skills & experience required?

• Willingness to learn and to continue development and pursue professional qualification.
• Ability to work to deadlines and achieve a high standard of accuracy with financial and statistical data.
• Ability to present clear reports and to communicate effectively both in writing and orally.
• Exposure to and knowledge of management accounts.
• Experience working with computerised accounting systems.
• Significant experience with MS Excel.
• Ability to show initiative to recommend changes in order to improve management reporting and the efficiency of processes. 
• Ability to work alone or within a team.

Salary up to c£50,000 - 55,000 depending on skills and experience and a generous benefits package.