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Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer, is seeking an Assistant Commercial Accountant based at our head office in Kegworth, reporting into the Senior Co-Man Finance Business Partner. We are fast-paced, hugely customer-driven, always looking to innovate, develop and improve what we do, and this creates the opportunity for you to develop and grow your career with us. Our people are friendly, open, and approachable, hugely supportive, and we have undergone high growth and high change over the past 5 years and expect to again double in size over the next 5 years.

About the Role

The Assistant Commercial Accountant will support our Co-Man, Brands and Private Label Commercial Teams. You will take ownership for the invoicing of ad-hoc charges and submissions and support the teams on costing projects as and when required.

As an Assistant Commercial Accountant here are your key areas of focus:

• QSM (Quantock Sales & Marketing)
• 3PL (3rd Party Logistics) in addition to raising invoices for our Norseland, Katsouris, Trewithen Dairy Partners, Del Monte you will also take responsibility for raising additional 3PL invoice in a timely manner
• You will be responsible for Norseland jobs activity from Langdons
• Fairtrade Submission need to be complete in line with our internal process
• You will ensure Fairtade and Flocert Audit readiness
• Balance Sheets reconciliations
• Support the Commercial and Finance teams on costing and price input
  

Individual KPIs and objectives include:

• Month-End timetable all completed on time, to include all invoicing
• Actively contribute towards our goal of becoming a Great Place to Work.
  

Values

In common with all other team members within Refresco UK Ltd, the Assistant Commercial Accountant is required to consistently demonstrate our Company Values: Entrepreneurial, Agile, Responsible, Excellent and Passionate.

About You

Qualifications and experience

You will need to be ACCA/CIMA/ACA finalist at a minimum and you will have experience of working in a similar industry.

You will demonstrate your knowledge and experience in supporting an annual budget and forecast process. Ideally you will be familiar with management reporting in a manufacturing business.

Knowledge

Ideally you will have experience of working with SAP/IMB Cognos and Power BI and off course in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint too.

Skills and competencies

• Key to this role is your ability to work at pace and meet strict deadlines, your work will be reliable and accurate
• Your attention to detail will help you to identify problems at an early stage and you will be confident to escalate these to your line manager
• You will be methodical in your approach with excellent planning skills.
  

Ultimately, we want you to live, drink, and breathe the Refresco Values as we believe these are what have made us, and will continue to make us, successful.

Reward & Benefits

The salary for this role is dependent on experience. Working hours are Monday to Friday – 38 hours per week, and we have free, onsite parking. In addition, we offer discretionary annual bonus incentive, a good company pension scheme, 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays (with the option to purchase additional holidays after a qualifying period) and access to a sports and social fund.

We also offer our employees access to Grocery Aid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling – https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/ - as well as Perkbox – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks and wellbeing tools for all employees – https://www.perkbox.com/uk .

About Refresco

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks but we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and have invested heavily to expand our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from 78 manufacturing plants in 15 countries and we’re only just getting started…

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