Accountant
- Recruiter
- ForFarmers
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
- Salary
- Competitive plus excellent benefits
- Posted
- 18 Jan 2017
- Closes
- 25 Jan 2017
- Ref
- 2919002
- Contact
- Mandy Baines
- Job Title
- Tax
- Category
- Manufacturing / Engineering
- Experience Levels
- Manager
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
ForFarmers is the largest internationally operating Total Feed Solutions Company for sustainable, conventional and organic farming in Europe. It has production facilities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom they employ over 2,370 employees and generate a turnover of €2.2 billion (2015). ForFarmers maintain their market leading position through their nutritional expertise, quality products, continuous innovation and excellent customer service. The need for an efficient and sustainable agricultural sector, and the requirement to minimise the environmental impact of food production and distribution is becoming more and more important to our world so it is an exciting time to join the industry.
Due to continued business growth organically and by acquisition ForFarmers are relocating their office from Ipswich to new purpose built offices in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
The Accountant will report directly to the General Ledger Accountant, and will be part of the General Ledger Accounting team. Their role will involve general ledger accounting; balance sheet reconciliations, profit and loss, fixed assets, inter-company accounting, accruals and prepayments, journals, year end statutory reporting and month end reporting. They will also provide support to the UK Tax Manager in the preparation and submission of all tax reporting for the UK group. This will include assisting the UK Tax Manager on monthly, in-year and year-end Group tax reporting, providing support on annual UK corporation tax compliance process and assist the UK Tax Manager with financial and tax aspects of adhoc projects.
The Accountant will embrace change and new technology and support the finance department in driving improvement in efficiency, processes, controls, timeliness and quality of information; they will be committed to making ForFarmers Finance Function a “world class” team.
The Accountant will be an ambitious and professional qualified or part qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA), with knowledge of statutory accounting and reporting IFRS and FRS102. and have broad financial and management accounting skills. You will have strong IT skills including Excel to an advanced level and experience of SAP or another similar ERP system is beneficial.
The Accountant will be a team player possessing good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise work demands and perform well under pressure and to deadlines. You will be self-motivated, enthusiastic and have good attention to detail and accuracy, promoting high quality standards. The Accountant will be flexible in their approach to work and be prepared to support other broader General ledger and financial reporting responsibilities
ForFarmers are offering a highly competitive salary and benefits package including study support with the opportunity to progress your career with a market leading, fast moving and changing world-class business.