Job Purpose
Provide support for all weekly delivery analysis, weekly & period reporting and forecasting for juice (weekly and period) and ESL (weekly) activities.

Position in organisation
Reports to Transport Finance Analyst (Grade 6) and works closely with Culina (warehouse and transport 3PL provider) and Juice Operations team.
Support the transport analysis on weekly reconciliation between ESL and planning team and compare to finance teams reports
This role will be responsible for all juice finance transactions until moved over with the joint venture. Supports internal metric scorecards eg juice, PowerApp and Measure Up.

Principal Accountabilities

Weekly process the IWT entries for Tropicana and be key finance person in Logistics

Responsibility for all Culina PO for weekly costs and 3PL transport invoices including query resolution

Responsible for the stock analysis at period end and any quarterly stock counts

Responsible for all juice period end journals and reporting including any scorecards.

Responsible for reconciliation between ESL weekly deliveries and planning expected deliveries including identifying Backhaul income runs and additional miles run

Responsibility for period scorecards on metric reports such as PowerApps and Measure up

Cover for Transport Cost Technician

Support Ad-hoc projects for the site and business eg GCS work, analytical work from budget holders or auditors.

Job Dimensions:
Financial
Responsibility for the reporting an AOP spend in excess of £10,000,000 for juice. Responsibility of analysing stock data c£6,000,000. Responsibility for analysis of ESL data (Signed off by Transport Manager on a weekly basis).

Non - Financial
Responsibility for non-finance scorecards completed by Finance team

Decision- Making Authority

Period close: Autonomous role, decisions on financial variances to accept/investigate against a deadline. Discusses position with Transport Finance Analyst/ Site Finance Manager prior to closure

PO control on Culina and import transport- analyse outstanding PO receipts and orders and close down when evidenced they are not required. Deal with queries without escalating at first sign of a problem.

Action Plans completed and controlled within own supervision, period meeting with Transport Finance Analyst.

Supports weekly reconciliation of ESL delivery - escalate any queries to put into action tracker with Transport Manger and inform Transport Finance Analyst for invoice creation and period end reporting

AAT or relevant finance degree
Advanced Excel skills
Drive for results/ability to work under pressure (role is deadline driven)
Ability to work under own or little supervision
Communication skills to all levels - investigating mindset and wanting to understand intricacies of role.
Organised and ability to self-prioritise
Team Player
Ability to coach non-finance teams on basic financials
Ability to make standard period accruals and prepayments without discussion and with relevant backup/controls in place. Need double entry booking keeping experience.

Special features:
SRDC Leicester
Logistics Finance Team - major part of team, support when people absent
Senior Managers & Budget holders (Grade 6 - Grade 10) - weekly/period, forecasting & AOP
Transport Planning team - information regarding ESL on a weekly basis

Reading
Financial Control - regarding GCS, juice stock and deliveries.
HO Reporting team - period end queries and accruals
MyBuy Helpdesk liaise with team to resolve issues and understand system changes
Juice Planning team to understand IWT and invoicing on Culina and UK imports

Other Sites
Zeebrugge - for Tropicana production and deliveries

External
Culina - weekly and period reporting and forecasting
ESL - weekly reconciliation and sign off
Other 3PL Transport - for invoicing and queries

Other Feature - Period ends may require late/ weekends working due to deadline. There are no authorised holidays granted at this time, however time will be given back in lieu.