Assistant Accountant - 12 month FTC in Basingstoke

Pay £33,000.00-£36,000.00 per year

Who are we

Lavazza Professional is the Business-to-business (B2B) arm of Lavazza Group; as a brand we have grown over the last 120 years from a small Italian artisanal company to an industrial giant. Throughout our growth, we have remained family owned, and our passion for quality coffee is coupled with a spirit of entrepreneurship, defined by innovation and a sense of responsibility. At Lavazza Professional, our goal is to fuel workplace productivity and wellness, we bring high performance vending technologies to offices and factory floors in over 10,000 businesses across the UK. Partnering with some of the nation’s best loved drinks brands, we make sure choosing the perfect menu couldn’t be easier. With significant investment into research and development, we now offer a wide range of customised vending solutions and our range is ever expanding. As a company, we are proud to announce our “Roadmap to Zero”, our aim is to completely neutralise the Group’s carbon footprint by the end of 2030. With an investment of about €50million in the 2020-2021 period, you can be proud to join a company dedicated to sustainability, innovation, and employee development.

What is the role

• Member of the UK management accounting team which covers management accounting, forecasting and business partnering support, across all areas of the financial statements including Fixed Assets, Stock, Revenue and Cost reporting.
• Reports to Financial Control Manager, to provide key support to the Management Accountant team and UK Financial Controller.
• Ensure month and year end management accounting tasks are completed accurately and on a timely basis.
• Manage key banking processes, including conducting daily banking allocation tasks ensuring accounts are accurate and cash reported correctly.
• Managing expense reporting and ensuring compliance with controls, whilst providing support to the business as required.
• Provide cover for other team members.
• Take ownership of agreed P&L and balance sheet areas, working with the business on driving performance improvement actions, and implementing or maintaining associated controls.
• Support Financial Control Manager and Financial Control team in delivering key Financial Control team activities.
• Work on the month end process, ensuring that all deadlines are met, that accurate accruals, prepayments and other financial entries are complete.
• Assist in preparing variance reporting and analysis for month-end review and understand drivers behind differences.
• Assist in completing thorough and robust balance sheet reconciliations monthly.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reporting.
• Review and approve payments and bank reconciliation, including cash forecasting.
• Assist in the monthly intercompany process, helping to prepare monthly intercompany reconciliations, posting and raising intercompany invoices and arranging intercompany payments.
• When required, assist with the preparation of the monthly VAT return, EC sales list and Intrastat submissions.
• Assist with interim and year end audit processes.

Business Partnering responsibilities

• Work with the Management Accountant to assist in preparing accurate, concise and user-friendly month end packs.
• Create concise, user-friendly cost centre reviews to allow discussion with cost centre managers to monitor and control costs.
• Utilise knowledge of the business to assist in responding to finance queries as they fall due to support business decision making.
• Work with colleagues in finance and the wider business to ensure accuracy and efficiency in all that you do.
• Ad hoc variance reporting should also be prepared as required.

Ad Hoc Accounting tasks

• Other ad hoc and regular tasks / reporting as required by the Management Accountant/ Financial Controller/ FD/ HQ.

What you need to have

• AAT Qualification.
• Willingness to study towards ACCA/CIMA qualification.
• Attention to detail.
• Time management.
• Communication skills.
• Numeracy & analytical skills.
• Excel skills - ESSENTIAL.
• Positive mind set with the drive to progress, learn and make improvements.
• SAP - Essential.

The successful candidate will be expected to work onsite in Basingstoke. They must be UK based for the interview process. Background checks will be completed which will include a DBS check. We do not offer sponsorship for this role.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits

• Casual dress.
• Company pension.
• Discounted or free food.
• Health & wellbeing programme.
• Life insurance.
• On-site parking.
• Private medical insurance.
• Sick pay.

Experience: accounting: 2 years (required).

Work Location: In person.