Senior Accountant Peterborough
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Excellent at excel? Like variation, where no two days are the same? Then why not come and join us our Senior Accountant!
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Frontline Finance team. We are based in Peterborough city centre and this great opportunity is offered as a fixed term contract to the end of April 2024.
You will provide general cover for time-sensitive accounting and analytical tasks across management, financial and commercial accounting to enable existing members of the team to dedicate time to a range of business and systems projects.
As our Senior Accountant you will own the production of the management accounts, have line management responsibility for the Frontline Management Accountant and will have involvement in budgets and forecasts. You will also support the team by reviewing current processes, suggesting changes and working with the team to reduce any skills, knowledge and documentation gaps. This will enable good foundations on which to then overlay any new and updated processes required as an outcome of the current projects. Our successful candidate will also play a lead role in the upgrade of our Finance system.
Benefits
At the Frontline Group we offer great training, and a range of salary sacrifice flexible benefits which you can select based on your lifestyle; benefit options include private medical insurance, holiday purchase and a tech scheme to name a few.
On top of that we also offer:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata)
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- Coaching with accredited coaches
- Hybrid working
- 2 paid days to volunteer for a registered charity
- Inhouse Gym
- Onsite Café
Info
The role is offered as a full-time position, but there could be the opportunity to offer flexible part-time hours.
Essential Skills
This will be a very varied role and our successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills, attributes and capabilities:
- ACA/CIMA/ACCA finalist/qualified or can demonstrate extensive relevant experience
- Advanced Excel (proficient in the use of lookups, sumifs and pivot tables)
- Line management experience would be advantageous
- System testing experience essential
- The ability to quickly assimilate new information
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities
- A strong team player who enjoys mentoring others
- An enquiring mind
- A can-do attitude
About Company
The Frontline Group is made up of Frontline, Seymour, Gold Key Media and Routes to Retail. We’re the UK’s leading retail sales, marketing and distribution company working predominantly in the exciting and diverse areas of publishing and home entertainment.
Our key clients include publishers of iconic magazine brands such as Radio Times, Good Housekeeping, TV Choice, Heat, Top Gear, Grazia, Vogue, Slimming World, Cosmopolitan, Empire, National Geographic and 100’s more. We also work with major film studios managing their DVD presence within the grocery retail channel and are growing our reach in categories such as books and music with further category expansions on the horizon.
As a Distributor we work closely with UK and International retailers, wholesale, International Distributors and other parts of the supply chain to ensure our client’s sales, retail marketing and distribution objectives are met. Through our brand targeting and audience engagement agency Gold Key Media we develop sampling and marketing solutions, and we manage brand placement activities in the events, travel and hospitality sectors across the world.
The Frontline Group is owned by two of the world’s leading publishing companies, Bauer Media and Immediate Media Company (Hubert Burda Media). This will provide opportunities to grow your career across a number of different businesses and functions including brand marketing, sales, analytics, insight, finance, IT services, supply chain and publishing. We strongly believe in developing our own people and have a great track record of supporting and coaching our colleagues, who have then gone on to grow their career within our business.
Our teams are made up of the most talented and widely respected people in our industry and are seen as the experts in their fields. At the Frontline Group we celebrate our differences and ensure everyone feels welcome, trusted and valued for being their authentic selves.
Bring ‘You’ to the interview
Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. We want to make sure that our selection processes are transparent and fair, providing a level playing field for anyone who wants to come and work with us. Therefore, if you require any adjustments to an interview process, please feel free to get in touch with [email protected] who will be happy to discuss your needs in complete confidence .
All our roles offer a hybrid working option, combining in-office and remote/home working.
Want to see what our People say about working for us? Head on over to our website https://frontlinedistribution.co.uk/work-with-us/ to find out more.
Essential Requirements
This will be a very varied role and our successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills, attributes and capabilities:
- ACA/CIMA/ACCA finalist/qualified or can demonstrate extensive relevant experience
- Advanced Excel (proficient in the use of lookups, sumifs and pivot tables)
- Line management experience would be advantageous
- System testing experience essential
- The ability to quickly assimilate new information
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities
- A strong team player who enjoys mentoring others
- An enquiring mind
- A can-do attitude
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