Accountant (6-Month Fixed Term Contract)

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The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Accountant (6-Month Fixed Term Contract)

Location: Hybrid - primarily homeworking but occasional travel to Dunston office required.

Contract type, shift pattern, working hours: 6 month fixed term contract, 40 hours per week, Mon-Fri

Package includes: Salary from £30,000 a year, plus pension contributions matched up to 10% and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.

Are you a motivated and detail-oriented accountant looking to apply your skills in a fast-paced, purpose-driven business? Do you enjoy variety in your role and the chance to work with a supportive team focused on enhancing processes in the agricultural sector?

We're seeking an experienced Accountant to join the team on a 6-month fixed-term contract. This role offers the opportunity to own month-end accounting activities, work across multiple systems and processes, and support the finance team through a busy and exciting period of change. You’ll work closely with the Finance Manager and wider team to ensure our reporting remains accurate, timely and aligned with business needs.

What you’ll be doing:
- Managing and delivering all aspects of the month-end process
- Preparing monthly Profit & Loss and Trial Balance reports
- Posting journals, including accruals and prepayments
- Performing balance sheet reconciliations
- Maintaining and reconciling the fixed asset register
- Supporting the subcontractor reconciliation and recharge process
- Responding to customer queries and invoice checks
- Carrying out general finance administration and supporting the wider team as required
What you'll bring:
- Part-qualified ACCA or CIMA (or equivalent experience)
- Proven experience in an accounting or finance role, with a solid understanding of core processes and responsibilities.
- Proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Significant attention to detail coupled with notable accuracy
- Ability to effectively manage tasks both individually and collaboratively within a team
- Comfortable working to tight deadlines in a dynamic environment
- Full UK driving licence (due to limited public transport to the Dunston office)
Location

This role is based at our Dunston office, with hybrid working available. Candidates must be able to travel to the office as required. Due to limited public transport links, access to a car and a full UK driving licence are essential.

The quality of our people makes us unique

Kite Consulting provide business services to the entire food supply chain from farmer to retailer. We are recognised as one of the UK’s leading dairy consultancy companies, we are proud of our knowledge-base and relationships we form with our customers through practical imaginative advice focused on delivering excellence building success through the success of our customers.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division 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.

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