Assistant Accountant + Cima Study Support

Home to some of the UK’s leading dairy brands, including Cravendale, Anchor, Lurpak and Tickler, Arla Foods is the UK’s number one dairy company. Also supplying a full range of fresh dairy products to the major retailers and food service customers, Arla has an annual turnover of £2 billion. Not only that, but Arla is also the UK’s number one cheese manufacturer and the largest supplier of butter and spreads. Behind this leading global business, is a UK team of 4000 colleagues located across our dairies, distribution centres and head offices, ensuring that more than 4000 daily deliveries are made to stores and regional distribution centres. So if you’ve poured some of the nice cold white stuff over your bowl of breakfast cereal today or had cheese on toast for your evening snack, chances are you’ve already experienced Arla!

Our site in Settle is a fast paced environment producing UHT milk and we are currently recruiting for an Assistant Accountant to join our team.

This role supports the site management team and the Finance and Administration Manager covering all operational activity across production. Your responsibilities will include assisting with weekly financial reporting, preparing weekly KPI reports, providing support in our budget and forecasting process and the preparation and administration of various reports and systems. Monthly duties will include assisting in producing month end accounts. As part of the site support team you will also be required to assist with other administrative tasks when required.

The successful candidate will have successfully completed a degree in finance or accountancy and have achieved a 2:2 or above. You will be studying towards, or looking to begin studying towards a professional accountancy qualification, (preferably CIMA). Applicants must have good communication and organisation skills with the ability to meet strict deadlines, and produce accurate and reliable information. Knowledge of SAP is desirable.

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