Senior Financial Accountant

Do you want to be part of one of the UK's fastest growing FMCG brands? Are you looking for a big challenge with huge potential for growth? Biotiful Dairy is the category leading Kefir producer and we have big ambitions. We are a fast-growing, pioneering, and ethical business who take pride in sharing our delicious and super healthy range of gut-friendly products with the increasingly health-conscious UK consumer.

To help us on this journey, we are looking for a Senior Financial Accountant to join our Finance Team; you will be a key member of the team, responsible for delivering accurate, timely and compliant financial reporting in a fast-paced FMCG environment. Operating as part of a high-growth business within a larger group, the role ensures alignment to group policies, accounting standards, and tight reporting deadlines. This is a senior individual contributor position, requiring strong technical accounting skills, a continuous improvement mindset and the ability to work cross-functionally with commercial, operational and group stakeholders.

Package: Competitive + bonus

Contract: Permanent

Location: Hammersmith / 3 days per week on site

What you'll do:

• Own and execute the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes to meet internal and group reporting timelines.
• Prepare and review key journals, reconciliations and supporting schedules.
• Produce management reporting outputs and factual variance commentary, collaborating closely with the Senior Finance Manager on commercial interpretation.
• Ensure compliance with group reporting frameworks, accounting policies, and IFRS/UK GAAP requirements.
• Act as the primary coordinator for external audit, ensuring clear documentation, reconciliations, and process transparency.
• Support preparation of statutory accounts and regulatory reporting.
• Monitor changes in accounting standards, industry practices, and group policy updates.
• Maintain strong financial control standards across inventory, promotional spend, balance sheet items and financial operations.
• Identify and drive improvements in the efficiency, accuracy and automation of reporting and month-end routines.
• Document and enhance accounting policies, procedures, and control frameworks.
• Work closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Commercial Finance and the Senior Finance Manager to ensure accurate data flows and understanding of financial drivers.
• Collaborate with the AP/AR Supervisor to ensure ledger accuracy and control, without performing transactional processing.
• Provide technical accounting guidance to finance and non-finance stakeholders.

What you'll bring:

Essential:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong financial reporting and month-end close experience ideally in FMCG, manufacturing, consumer goods, retail, or similar operationally complex environments.
• Experience with inventory and cost accounting (e.g., standard costing, variances, landed cost, stock reconciliations, promotional allowances).
• Experienced in working within group reporting environments with tight deadlines and defined standards.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong proficiency with ERP/accounting systems.
• Proven track record in improving processes, controls and reporting accuracy.

Desirable:

• Experience in high-growth or scale-up organisations.
• Familiarity with group consolidation systems (e.g., BPC, HFM, OneStream, Cognos, NetSuite, SAP).
• Exposure to continuous improvement, automation, or Lean methodology.

Key Competencies & Behaviours:

• High personal accountability and attention to detail.
• Able to work at pace while maintaining high standards.
• Problem-solving, curious and improvement minded.
• Strong communication and business partnering skills.
• Professional, collaborative, and comfortable challenging assumptions constructively.

Success Measures (6-12 Months):

• Month-end close delivered accurately and on time to internal and group deadlines.
• Clear, well-documented and audit-ready balance sheet reconciliations.
• Improved visibility and reliability of inventory and margin reporting.
• Documented and embedded process and control improvements.
• Positive stakeholder feedback and strong cross-functional relationships.