Assistant Accountant FTC

Overview We are looking for an Assistant Accountant to join our team for a 12 month FTC. You will play an important role within the Group Transport Finance Team focusing on the reconciliation of our backhauls to our customers central summaries. Within this proactive role you will support the operational & financial running of the business, ensuring management accounts processes are adhered to. You will challenge current processes and ways of working, championing continuous improvement across the wider team. As a function we bring together the day to day commercial & financial running of transport with the strategic controls to maximise the value that we bring to our customers and the wider group. The role is based at our Sainsburys distribution centre in Northampton. After initial training the role will be hybrid, with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote. How will you contribute? Responsible for weekly reconciliations of Wincanton Backhaul to Sainsburys central summaries; identifying anomalies in kilometres / hours reported to ensure accuracy of weekly Wincanton Backhaul stats reported across all sites. Responsible for processing weekly internal cross char…