Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant

H14

Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, Friday 8:30am – 4pm

Permanent

About the Role

Manage and enhance all financial accounting activities in the Business Unit.

The Financial Accountant acts as an entrepreneur and is committed to developing high performance teams and at the same time acts as a role model in terms of demonstrating and living Refresco’s core values and behaviours.

Here are your key tasks and responsibilities as Financial Accountant at Refresco:

VAT compliance - Manage UK VAT processes, monthly reconciliations, quarterly HMRC filings, and resolve VAT queries.

Intercompany accounting - Coordinate UK intercompany reconciliations, validate costs, and resolve global intercompany issues.

Financial close - Deliver accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities.

Balance sheet control - Reconcile key balance sheet accounts and post journals.

Forecasting support - Provide data and insight for budgeting and forecasting of intercompany balances.

Cross‑functional contribution - Support Treasury, lead/participate in business projects, and contribute to Great Place to Work initiatives.

About You

The ideal candidate will be studying toward near‑completion of ACA, ACCA or an equivalent qualification and will have extensive experience either reviewing financial records for external audit or owning the audit process within an accounts department. They will bring strong experience preparing full statutory accounts within a large business, alongside practical exposure to FMCG and/or manufacturing environments. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to identify and implement more efficient methodologies that improve speed and efficiency without compromising accuracy, as well as recognise opportunities to achieve cost savings while safeguarding the company’s financial and operational position.

Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.

Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values

If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.