Key skills
Budgeting
About this role
Role Overview
- Own day-to-day financial control, ensuring suppliers are paid accurately and on time via the Shared Service Centre (Poland)
- Manage and control PO creation, commitments, and invoice validation (no PO, no pay)
- Ensure costs are correctly recharged to business units in line with agreed models
- Own the month-end close: accruals, journals, reconciliations, and timetable discipline
- Produce monthly reporting, variance analysis, and clear financial commentary
- Support budgeting and forecasting with accurate actuals and spend visibility
- Act as key finance interface with Shared Services, improving end-to-end P2P and close processes
- Manage finance clean-up projects: clearing historic balances, improving data quality, fixing broken processes.
Requirements
- Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent experience)
- Extensive controllership experience, including month-end close, accounts payable, purchase orders, and recharges
- Experience working with shared service centres
- Advanced spreadsheet proficiency and solid financial reporting skills
- Pragmatic, delivery-focused, comfortable in a contractor / change environment
Benefits
- Yearly bonus based on personal contribution and financial performance
- Flexible working options
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays and the option to buy and sell holidays
- Onsite Gym and Wellbeing Centre
- Perkbox – employee discount scheme with discounts online, in high street stores, cinema, holidays, restaurants and many more
- Pension scheme with your contributions matched for up to 10% of your salary
- Cycle to work scheme
- SimplyHealth Cash plan
- Onsite Staff shop and online staff discounts
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Access to ABF Networking, connect, collaborate, and grow across the ABF Group.