Supply Chain Management Accountant

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Peterborough
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The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Supply Chain Management Accountant

Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)

Are you a finance professional with proficiency in analysis, skilled in simplifying processes, and a commitment to drive real operational impact? Do you enjoy working with cross-functional teams and making sense of complex data to inform key decisions?

We're looking for a Supply Chain Management Accountant to join our Finance team in Peterborough. Reporting to the Head of Finance, you'll play a crucial role in supporting our supply chain operations by delivering clear, accurate, and insightful financial reporting. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of our supply chain function, partnering with stakeholders across the business to facilitate performance and continuous improvement.

What you'll be doing:
- Deliver accurate and timely P&L reporting, including detailed variance analysis and causal insights.
- Collaborate with the Supply Chain Finance team during period end to ensure smooth and efficient financial close processes.
- Prepare and manage balance sheet reconciliations to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Provide clear, relevant, and insightful financial information to Supply Chain stakeholders.
- Continuously simplify and streamline reporting processes to improve efficiency and clarity.
- Identify opportunities for operational and financial improvements through cost base analysis.
- Support the preparation of annual budgets and rolling forecasts in collaboration with supply chain partners.
- Contribute to capex/project work and ad hoc analysis to support strategic initiatives.
What you'll bring:
- Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA).
- Experience in management accounting, ideally within a supply chain or operational environment.
- Extensive budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis skills.
- Advanced Excel skills and good working knowledge of finance systems.
- Ability to communicate complex information clearly and concisely to non-finance audiences.
- Motivated, solution-focused mindset with the confidence to challenge constructively.
- Proficient problem-solving skills and a passion for continuous improvement.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines in a busy workplace.
Location

Hybrid, a mix of office and homeworking. This role will be based at our Peterborough offices on the Lynchwood Business Park. The office has recently been renovated and along with a modern work environment has great public transport links, free onsite parking, free drink facilities, free lunch option each day and a great team culture.

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.

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Questions about this role?

If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Taylor Waldon via [email protected].

Supporting your application

We work with a number of external partners to ensure that our application process is as comfortable as possible, regardless of your circumstances or background.