Financial Accountant (16711) presso The World's Partner in High-Quality Beverage Solutions | Refresco

Join Refresco and take charge of financial excellence. In this role, you’ll ensure accurate, timely, and compliant accounts while driving improvements across all financial functions. Be part of a global leader where your expertise makes a real impact. 

Financial Accountant

Kegworth Head Office

Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, Friday 8:30am – 4pm

Permanent

Reward & Benefits:

• Annual bonus and pay review
• Early finish on a Friday
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Purchase up to an additional 3 days holidays
• Life assurance
• Employee referral scheme - earn a bonus for referring your friends or family
• GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling
• Cheers – access to our award winning benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well-being tools for all employees
• Free onsite parking, and discounted products

About the Role

The primary purpose of this role is to oversee and ensure the accurate, timely, and reliable preparation and maintenance of the company's financial accounts. This is achieved in compliance with Fundamental Accounting Principles, the Refresco Group Accounting Manual, and the requirements outlined in the Companies Act.

Additionally, the role involves managing and continuously improving all financial accounting functions within the Business Unit

Here are your key tasks and responsibilities as Financial Accountant at Refresco:

• Ownership of treasury and FX functions: Oversight of cash management, forecasting, variance analysis, payments, group cash pool operations, and liaison with corporate treasury.
• FX settlement and reporting: Monthly deal settlements with banks, reporting and analysis of FX results, hedging outlook, and accurate revaluation of foreign currency balances.
• Alcohol compliance management: Administer UK alcohol compliance, reconcile returns, lead steering meetings, oversee audits, and validate new customers for alcoholic products.
• Financial close and reporting: Deliver monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensure accuracy of submissions, handle AP balances, revaluations, and group reporting for subsidiaries.
• Balance sheet control and forecasting support: Reconcile accounts, post journals, provide inputs for budget/forecast activities, and submit national statistics surveys.
• Team and project support: Cover critical treasury tasks during absences and participate or lead assigned business projects.

About You

The ideal candidate will have proven expertise in managing cash flow, supported by a strong background in AR/AP. They will demonstrate proficiency in working with multiple currencies and bring experience in budgeting and forecasting within a large, complex organisation. A professional accounting qualification such as CIMA, ACCA, or ACA (or be at finalist level) is essential, reflecting their technical capability and commitment to excellence.

Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.

Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values

If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia.

Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass.

Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.