Assistant Management Accountant

Join the Samworth Brothers Family!

Working for Kettleby Foods, part of the Samworth Brothers Group, a 4thgeneration family business, we offer competitive benefits to all our colleagues including:

• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Private Health Scheme
• Employee Discount Scheme
• Annual Pay Review and Profit related pay
• Training and Progression opportunities

The Opportunity

We have the opportunity for you to join our team as an Assistant Management Accountant. You will be involved in assisting the preparation of weekly accounts, material & labour variance analysis, business KPIs and monthly material & labour reconciliations. You will be a pro-active and flexible individual who can add some real value to the finance team, working closely with and supporting other key functions, providing accurate, timely and insightful information to various key stakeholders to improve business performance. In this role you will be:

• Preparing and reviewing the weekly P/L, including variance analysis to budget and forecasts.
• Business Partner key stakeholders (financial and non-financial, in particular Operations) ensuring strong commercial and operational decision making, managing financial risks and opportunities.
• Preparing daily materials and labour reports and weekly P/L forecasts.
• Attending daily materials and labour meetings.
• Tracking weekly materials and labour performance and reconciling to monthly GL entries.
• General day to day accounting responsibilities: KPI reporting, journal postings, reconciliations etc.

The Right Person

We are one big team, and we look for people to join our business who want to work with others but take responsibility for doing their best every day to help to make the business a success. We also need:

• AAT qualified/Accountancy Degree or Qualified by Experience, ideally working towards an accountancy qualification
• Experience of Industry accounts, preferably management accounts within a manufacturing environment
• Advanced MS Excel knowledge (V/H Look Ups, Pivot Tables, Macros) as well as competent in other Microsoft office programmes
• Experience with using Power BI would be beneficial
• Experience of using accounting systems, with Aurora or Microsoft AX experience being an advantage

The Company

Kettleby Foods, based in Melton Mowbray produces a range of high quality chilled Ready Meals supplying major retailers. We take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.