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Chadwick House (3rd Floor), Birchwood Park, Warrington, United Kingdom On-site Full-time

Culina Group is hiring a Senior Management Accountant

Responsibilities

  • Establish credibility and reliability in financial data shared with key decision-makers and their teams
  • Advance the centralization of IT procurement to improve transparency and accuracy in financial reporting
  • Oversee finance processes related to centralized IT and Facilities to ensure effective management
  • Generate timely, accurate, and meaningful management reports and analyze deviations from planned performance
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to develop budgets and forecasts, ensuring variances are clearly explained
  • Engage with stakeholders to support adherence to financial planning and reporting timelines
  • Execute the full finance reporting cycle according to group standards, including weekly updates, flash reporting, month-end consolidation, and SAP data uploads
  • Identify and communicate financial trends, particularly against budget and prior year, that affect budget delivery
  • Support the preparation of annual financial statements and contribute to external audit readiness within group deadlines
  • Develop and submit financial models for budgets and updated forecasts as required by the group
  • Act as an integral member of the management team, representing finance perspectives in strategic discussions
  • Lead and develop the Assistant Management Accountant, handling all people management responsibilities
  • Understand and comply with the organization's financial control framework, specifically the 'GO' system, as a baseline

Responsibilities

  • To build trust and confidence in the numbers reported to key stakeholders and their teams
  • Continue to build on the centralisation of IT procurement to ensure transparency of numbers reported
  • Ensure the finance processes around the centralisation of IT and Facilities are well managed
  • Producing timely, relevant and accurate management information as well as explaining variances to plan
  • Working collaboratively with stakeholders to build budgets and forecasts and ensuring that variances are fully explained and understood
  • Influencing stakeholders, where required, to ensure that finance objectives are delivered – including reporting and planning deadlines
  • Deliver the finance reporting cycle in line with Group requirements (to include Weekly, WD6 Flash, WD10 month end consolidation and WD12 SAP upload files)
  • Outline and report financial trends especially vs Budget and year on year that impact on the company’s ability to deliver budget
  • Assist in the preparation of the annual financial statements and assist in the external audit process, meeting group deadlines
  • Assist with modelling and submitting the budgets and reforecasts as required by Group
  • Be an active part of the management team, ensuring the voice of Finance is heard
  • Manage and develop the Assistant Management Accountant, managing all staff issues as necessary
  • Be aware of the Muller “GO” system of financial control and adhere to it (as a minimum)
About company
Culina Group

We are a market leading ambient and chilled food & drink 3PL specialist, providing warehousing, distribution, contract packing and a bonded division with extensive expertise in relation to dutiable goods across the UK and Ireland. We have recently added both Fresh and Food Manufacturing divisions and are looking towards the future and the continuation of being one of the leading logistics companies within the UK.

Using modern IT infrastructure, including warehouse management systems, satellite tracking and client interfaces we are able to offer unrivalled customer support, ensuring that you always know where your products are. Online up to date data is always available through customer web portals allowing you to track your goods from anywhere, while a significant investment of over £2.5m in customer service infrastructure over the last five years ensures that we exceed customer expectations not just once or twice, but every single time.

Working hand in hand with some of the globe's leading brands and manufacturers is an everyday event at Culina Group, plus with a multitude of own-label producers and developing companies, all are catered for with an efficient and flexible infrastructure. Importantly, our strategic focus is on food & drink logistics within a shared-user environment, which is driven by volume and critical mass. This ultimately delivers an efficient and cost effective solution for clients of all sizes.

We are committed to future proofing our business by investing in teams, network, systems, sector and the environment, which will ensure we continue to provide clients with a robust supply chain platform which performs beyond expectations every day. The latest two service additions of Fresh and Food Manufacturing are testament to this ethos, ensuring that we continue to become a leading light within the logistics industry.

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Posted 22 days ago