📍 Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
🕒 Full Time | Permanent
🎓 Graduate Opportunity
Bring Out Your Best Side with Albert Bartlett
Albert Bartlett is the UK's leading supplier of potatoes and potato products. As a family-owned business with a proud heritage and ambitious growth plans, we are committed to developing future talent and creating rewarding long-term careers.
We are looking for a motivated and ambitious Graduate Financial Accountant to join our Finance team at our Airdrie headquarters. This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate to gain hands-on experience within a busy commercial finance function while working towards a professional accountancy qualification.
The Opportunity
This role will provide exposure to all areas of the finance department, helping you build a strong foundation in financial and management accounting within a dynamic manufacturing business.
You will work closely with experienced finance professionals and senior stakeholders across the business to develop your technical knowledge and commercial awareness.
Key Responsibilities
- Assisting with month-end and year-end financial reporting
- Supporting the preparation of management accounts
- Performing balance sheet reconciliations
- Assisting with budgeting and forecasting processes
- Supporting cash flow reporting and analysis
- Processing and analysing financial data
- Assisting with audit preparation and compliance requirements
- Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes and controls
- Producing reports and analysis to support business decision-making
About You
- Recently graduated, or due to graduate, with a degree in:
- Accounting & Finance
- Finance
- Economics
- Business Management
- Mathematics
- A related discipline
What We Offer
- Competitive graduate salary
- Study support towards a professional qualification
- Company pension scheme
- Employee benefits package
- Structured training and development
- Career progression opportunities
- Exposure to a large and successful UK business
Requirements
Required Skills
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Eager to learn and develop professionally
- Ambitious with a desire to pursue a professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA or ICAS)
Benefits
- Pension Plans
- Life Assurance
- Leave Package
- Training & Development
- Employee Assistance Programme - Counselling
- Free Parking
- Long Service Awards
Skills Required
- Degree in Accounting & Finance, Finance, Economics, Business Management, Mathematics, or a related discipline
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Eager to learn and develop professionally
- Ambition to pursue a professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA or ICAS)
What We Do
Albert Bartlett is a family-owned company established in 1948, and is the UK's leading supplier of potatoes, offering fresh, chilled, and frozen potato products to retail, wholesale, and foodservice customers.
