Andover, GB-HAM, SP116DB, GBRFull TimeMid-levelPosted 24d ago
Job opportunity: Financial Reporting Accountant
Hours: 40 per week
Working Pattern: Full time in office for 3 months training period, then 3 days in office with two from home
Location: Vitacress Salads St Mary Bourne, Lower Link Farm, Lower Link, Andover, Hampshire, SP11 6DB
Salary: competitive with eligibility for incentive scheme and company pension
Are you a part-qualified accountant ready to take ownership of reporting processes and make a real impact? Do you enjoy turning complex financial data into clear, meaningful insight for non-finance stakeholders? Looking for a role where you can develop, challenge the status quo, and grow your career in a supportive finance team at Vitacress?
In this role you’ll…
• Work closely with the Financial Reporting Manager and Finance Business Partners to ensure financial information is clearly communicated across the business.
• Take ownership of key finance processes, particularly around the balance sheet, fixed costs, and fixed asset management.
• Manage the fixed asset register, including capitalisation, depreciation, disposals, and reconciliations to the general ledger.
• Support weekly and monthly reporting cycles, including forecasts, KPI reporting, and management accounts preparation.
• Produce accruals, cost centre reporting, and IFRS 16 lease accounting, working directly with budget holders.
• Contribute to intercompany accounting, payroll validation, and month-end close activities.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, statutory accounts, and year-end audit processes.
• Get involved in ad hoc finance projects and continuous improvement initiatives to drive efficiency.
You’ll do this for us…
• Deliver accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting that supports decision-making across Vitacress.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, helping non-finance teams understand financial performance.
• Ensure robust control and management of financial processes, particularly across fixed assets and overheads.
• Support forecasting and budgeting processes by working closely with cost centre owners.
• Improve financial processes by identifying inefficiencies and implementing better ways of working.
• Contribute to a high-performing finance team that values quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
You can do this if you have…
• Part-qualified accountant status (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA), with a desire to complete your qualification.
• Experience in a finance function with exposure to reporting, forecasting, and month-end processes.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with advanced Excel capability and ERP system experience (IFS is a plus).
• An understanding of financial reporting concepts such as accruals, fixed assets, and ideally IFRS 16.
• The ability to produce clear financial reports and analysis (e.g. KPIs, Capex proposals, payback assessments).
• A proactive mindset, with the ability to review processes and suggest improvements.
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to explain financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
• High attention to detail, a self-starting attitude, and a collaborative, team-focused approach.
Vitacress Salads, based in leafy St Mary Bourne, Andover is one of the principal salad and watercress suppliers in the UK. With our own salad leaf farms, we take immense pride in delivering a field to fork operation. We grow, wash, pack and distribute salad and watercress for retailer own brands and our own brand Steve’s Leaves. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standard and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the salads that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing out talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.
Hours: 40 per week
Working Pattern: Full time in office for 3 months training period, then 3 days in office with two from home
Location: Vitacress Salads St Mary Bourne, Lower Link Farm, Lower Link, Andover, Hampshire, SP11 6DB
Salary: competitive with eligibility for incentive scheme and company pension
Are you a part-qualified accountant ready to take ownership of reporting processes and make a real impact? Do you enjoy turning complex financial data into clear, meaningful insight for non-finance stakeholders? Looking for a role where you can develop, challenge the status quo, and grow your career in a supportive finance team at Vitacress?
In this role you’ll…
• Work closely with the Financial Reporting Manager and Finance Business Partners to ensure financial information is clearly communicated across the business.
• Take ownership of key finance processes, particularly around the balance sheet, fixed costs, and fixed asset management.
• Manage the fixed asset register, including capitalisation, depreciation, disposals, and reconciliations to the general ledger.
• Support weekly and monthly reporting cycles, including forecasts, KPI reporting, and management accounts preparation.
• Produce accruals, cost centre reporting, and IFRS 16 lease accounting, working directly with budget holders.
• Contribute to intercompany accounting, payroll validation, and month-end close activities.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, statutory accounts, and year-end audit processes.
• Get involved in ad hoc finance projects and continuous improvement initiatives to drive efficiency.
You’ll do this for us…
• Deliver accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting that supports decision-making across Vitacress.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, helping non-finance teams understand financial performance.
• Ensure robust control and management of financial processes, particularly across fixed assets and overheads.
• Support forecasting and budgeting processes by working closely with cost centre owners.
• Improve financial processes by identifying inefficiencies and implementing better ways of working.
• Contribute to a high-performing finance team that values quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
You can do this if you have…
• Part-qualified accountant status (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA), with a desire to complete your qualification.
• Experience in a finance function with exposure to reporting, forecasting, and month-end processes.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with advanced Excel capability and ERP system experience (IFS is a plus).
• An understanding of financial reporting concepts such as accruals, fixed assets, and ideally IFRS 16.
• The ability to produce clear financial reports and analysis (e.g. KPIs, Capex proposals, payback assessments).
• A proactive mindset, with the ability to review processes and suggest improvements.
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to explain financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
• High attention to detail, a self-starting attitude, and a collaborative, team-focused approach.
Vitacress Salads, based in leafy St Mary Bourne, Andover is one of the principal salad and watercress suppliers in the UK. With our own salad leaf farms, we take immense pride in delivering a field to fork operation. We grow, wash, pack and distribute salad and watercress for retailer own brands and our own brand Steve’s Leaves. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standard and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the salads that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing out talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.