Culina Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides logistics, warehousing, distribution, and other services for the food and drink industry in United Kingdom and Ireland. It provides chilled, ambient, contract packaging, and bonded logistics services, as well as value-added services, such as online visibility and systems integration, pallet management, and supply chain management.
Job DescriptionAt Great Bear, we're looking for an ambitious and detail-oriented Assistant Management Accountant to join our finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their accounting career within a fast-paced and growing logistics business.
In this role, you will play a key part in supporting the financial performance of the operation by delivering accurate and timely management information to the General Manager, Operational teams, Finance colleagues, and senior leadership. You'll be responsible for producing insightful financial reporting and analysis, helping drive informed business decisions across multiple customer contracts and sites.
What You'll Be Doing
- Producing weekly costings and financial reports for multiple customer contracts and sites.
- Preparing monthly management accounts, including journals, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
- Supporting customer invoicing, credit control, supplier payments, and cash flow forecasting.
- Assisting with monthly review packs, budgets, and quarterly forecasts.
- Producing internal reports and providing finance support on ad hoc projects and business initiatives.
- Supporting the wider finance team with administrative and process improvement activities.
- Part qualified Accountant (AAT, CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
- Proven attention to detail and analytical approach.
- Strong Excel skills and comfortable using MSWord and PowerBI.
- Questioning and enquiring approach with a real desire to seek out new methods that will allow more efficient provision of accurate financial data.
- Comfortable working individually and as part of a team, sharing knowledge and improvement ideas for the benefit of the Company and its staff.
- Hard working and flexible, with a strong commitment to meeting deadlines
- Keen to get involved and a team player.
- Good communicator at all levels in the business
- Have the ability to take on further responsibility and progress into a Management Accountant role.
- Previous experience in a Finance role, including journals, accruals, prepayments, depreciation and income matching
- Experience of working in a similar industry is an advantage
As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work, we are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.
Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.
Our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:
- Annual Leave – Competitive holiday entitlement.
- Pension scheme – We want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement, so we offer a great contribution of 4% employee and 4% employer.
- Life Assurance - x2 your annual salary.
- Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year.
- Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses.
- Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the Month and Year, special recognition and long service awards.
- Everyday discounts - Via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!
Skills Required
- Part qualified Accountant (AAT, CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
- Proven attention to detail and analytical approach
- Strong Excel skills
- Comfortable using MS Word
- Experience with Power BI
- Questioning and enquiring approach to improve financial data provision
- Ability to work individually and as part of a team and share knowledge
- Hard working, flexible, and committed to meeting deadlines
- Good communication skills at all business levels
- Willingness and ability to take on further responsibility toward Management Accountant role
- Previous finance experience including journals, accruals, prepayments, depreciation and income matching
- Experience of working in a similar industry
What We Do
Culina Group is a market leading provider of high quality logistics services for food and drink companies in the UK and Ireland. We serve a sizeable portfolio of customers - ranging from niche operators to major multinational companies - across our vast depot network, comprised of over 100 strategically located sites. We work with over 22,000 fantastic people at peak and specialise in the development and implementation of total supply chain solutions for ambient and chilled brand manufacturers and distributors. We are totally customer focused and always seek to add real value to our clients, providing a holistic solution to meet the challenges faced by manufacturers and the changing demands of the retail sector.
