The Opportunity: Financial Accountant

Contract: Permanent 

Salary: £40,000

Location: Cannock / Hybrid

The Briggs Equipment Group is a leading provider of asset management and maintenance solutions across the UK and Ireland. If you don’t feel like you meet all of the role criteria outlined below please don’t let that discourage you from applying.

The Impact you will have:

• Responsible for the accounting of  the parts and engineering side of the business, including inventory, work in progress, revenues and costs etc.
• Assisting with managing daily cash balances ensuring there are sufficient funds to cover the groups commitments
• Responsible for completing all UK entity draw downs
• Responsible for reviewing and managing the UK entities cashflow forecasts including capex forecasts, HP forecasts and daybook uploads
• Assisting with consolidating all entities cashflows into a group file to determine our overall group headroom position with Wells Fargo, ensuring compliance with our ABL agreement covenant
• Weekly availability / loan reconciliations between Wells Fargo report and cashflow
• Assisting with daily reconciliations of the group ABL loan and collateral ledger to Wells Fargo portal
• Completing the monthly UK Borrowing Base Certificate for Wells Fargo
• Onboarding new entities into the UK’s online banking facility
• Managing foreign currency requirements for the UK (Euro/CNY) and completion of a monthly FX tracker
• Responsible for reconciling and posting all associated transactions for our financial instrument hedges / FX forwards
• Responsible for reconciling all inter-company bank reconciliations
• Assisting with the external quarterly banking audit with Wells Fargo
• Covering for England and Wales treasury activities including bank payments, daybook, posting daily payments and reconciling the bank accounts
• Covering for any Irish Group treasury activities including, daybook uploads, draw downs, cashflow forecasts and day to day support
• Administrator for UK online banking across the Group and assist with the administration for all Southern Ireland’s online banking across the Group
• Treasury support for the Group
• Other ad-hoc general ledger and treasury duties as required

What will help you to excel in this role:

• Good Finance experience (including balance sheet reconciliations / fixed assets / accruals / prepayments / forecasting / variance analysis etc…)
• Treasury experience would be preferrable (bank payments / Foreign Exchange management / forecasting / cashflows)
• Good analytical skills and attention to detail
• Advanced Excel skills (including being able to combine more than one formula together, v-lookup, h-lookup, if statement, sumifs, etc…)– this would be tested during the interview
• Part qualified /someone studying CIMA or ACCA is preferable

What you can expect from us:

• Future development and career opportunities
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions up to 6%
• Profitshare bonus based on business performance
• Paycare and eyecare health scheme
• High street discounts

What’s next

• If you are interested in joining the Briggs Group then please click on the apply now button and a member of the team will be in touch
• Not sure if this is the right role for you? Please feel free to visit the careers page on our website and send us your CV speculatively for a member of the team to review
• If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you in the interview process, then please contact a member of the Recruitment team and inform them prior to attending so we can ensure these are met