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Finance Assistant

  • Location:

    Arundel

  • Sector:

    Food, Fresh Produce

  • Salary:

    £30000 - £35000 per annum

  • Contact:

    Lycia Pitcher

  • Job ref:

    12828

  • Published:

    over 3 years ago

  • Startdate:

    ASAP

Finance Assistant
We are currently working with a very progressive and forward-thinking fresh produce, fruit business, who have made some brilliant strides forward in recent years. As a result of this they have a new requirement for a Finance Assistant to join their team, thanks to the growth they have experienced. This is a great opportunity to join a business who are very much in the ascendency and to help continue this growth. The role is based near Arundel, West Sussex.

The main responsibilities will be:
Prepare payroll information on a weekly basis from Crop Picker software including consolidation on a fortnightly and monthly basis to be provided to the Financial Controller.
Maintain agricultural records on Priva, Crop Picker and Gate Keeper computer systems.
Maintain stock and data records of fruit, packaging, trial fruit production and miscellaneous items.
Production of data to facilitate periodical reporting to 3rd parties.
Maintain communication with the rest of the accounts function to ensure cashflow commitments, asset purchases, and any other developments are relayed.
Support admin requirements at all sites.

Agriculture Reporting:
Provide periodic dashboard analysis to communicate financial and non-financial KPIs.
Track project costs on existing and developing sites. Specifically, variances and cashflow implications.

Agriculture Production:
Enter production data into ERP system to take picked product through production jobs, accrue appropriate costs and generate sold product for invoicing to internal and external customers.
Monitor costings, accruals and other financial data relating to the job.
Monitor and administer yield and waste data generated by each production job.

Agriculture Buying:
Procure fruit packaging as required and administer in the systems via Expense POs.
Organise any requirements of the permanent and seasonal staff, e.g. accommodation, travel bookings, subsistence, etc

The role does involve travelling to different sites therefore you will require a full and clean, UK Driving Licence.