Bank Accountant

Job Title: Bank Accountant

Location: Peterborough / Hybrid (2-3 days in the office) 

Shift details: Full-time 8.30am - 5.00pm with flexibility to start earlier

Are you an Accountant or finance professional with experience in banking? Do you enjoy bank reconciliations and journal entries ensuring best practice is followed? Do you have experience working in a global business or with international transactions?

If so, we have a great opportunity for you to work in a diverse environment with exposure to various financial systems and international banking practices.  The role offers an opportunity to develop and improve processes within the team, working collaboratively with leadership to bring in relevant experience from different work environments, potentially introducing new ideas and ways of working to support the team's growth.

What you'll be doing: 

• Informing Sales ledger and credit control of all customer receipts received on a daily basis
• Entering new payment templates to banking systems
• Ensuring all purchase ledger and payroll UK and international payments are checked thoroughly and processed within strict payment terms
• Authorising payments and templates entered by others after thoroughly checking
• Reconciling all bank accounts and resolving queries with business units on a weekly basis
• Ordering of Foreign currency from ABF and ensuring sufficient funds to cover payments
• Processing submitted Expense payments through Concur system
• Liaising with other department to resolve queries efficiently
• Assisting with projects to streamline banking systems

What you'll bring: 

• Experience with multiple bank accounts and different currencies, ideally with global banking experience
• Background in finance, understanding of bank reconciliations and journal entries
• Ability to handle a large volume of bank transactions and accounts
• Flexibility and willingness to adapt to changing processes and procedures
• Structured work approach and ability to follow and develop processes
• Attention to detail, prioritising and an ability to work to tight deadlines on a daily basis
• Experience of working with various ERP systems would be valuable

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. 

About us

We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.  What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you.  People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture. 

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.