Finance Assistant

Employer: Sincereal UK

Location:  Bromborough

Salary circa £27,000 (depending on experience). 

Some of our other fantastic benefits

• Potential, discretionary annual bonus


• pension scheme


• Study Support available

Scope

Join our team as a Factory Finance Assistant, playing a key role in supporting the financial performance of a busy manufacturing site.

A bit about us

Sincereal Group is a dynamic and growing company providing private label offers to customers in Europe.  With locations in UK and France, our factories complement each other enabling us to provide a wide range of products to our customers.  This is a great opportunity to contribute to a new company that is a major, sustainable and competitive player in the growing cereal private label market

 About – Sincereal

Role Purpose

You’ll be responsible for the accurate tracking and management of factory costs, inventory, and production-related transactions. Working closely with production, supply chain, and procurement teams, you’ll help ensure financial accuracy and control within a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

Responsibilities will include;

• Process high volumes of purchase invoices, including raw materials, packaging, and factory overheads, ensuring accurate 3-way matching within the ERP system


• Support stock accounting activities, including inventory movements, cycle counts, reconciliations, and regular stock reporting with variance analysis


• Work closely with warehouse and production teams to maintain accurate inventory records and support yield, waste, and production variance reporting


• Assist with month-end close processes, including accruals, prepayments, cost allocation, and supplier statement reconciliations


• Maintain accurate financial data in ERP systems while supporting cost tracking, identifying efficiencies, and ensuring compliance with controls and audit requirements

What will you make successful

To be successful in a Finance Assistant role, you will bring a solid foundation in accounting principles alongside strong attention to detail and accuracy. You’ll be confident working with financial systems and Excel, with the ability to manage high volumes of data in a fast-paced environment. Strong organisational and time management skills are essential, as well as the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines. Effective communication and teamwork skills will enable you to collaborate across departments, while a proactive, problem-solving mindset and commitment to continuous improvement will help drive efficiency and support the wider finance function.

• Understanding of accounting principles, particularly in cost and inventory accounting, with experience using ERP systems (SAP or D365 desirable)


• Strong Excel skills and the ability to analyse data, identify trends, and solve problems effectively


• Excellent organisation, communication, and teamwork skills, with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines


• A proactive, hands-on approach with high integrity and a continuous improvement mindset, ideally supported by AAT study or similar qualification

Job Posting Date 29/05/2026

Job Posting Close date 12/06/2026

Working Conditions

Office based role within a food manufacturing environment. Role requires regular time on the factory floor and exposure to noise, dust (grain), moving machinery, temperature variation, and manual handling activities. (Flexibility is required to support shift teams, critical incidents, shutdowns, trials, and business needs – please remove).

Right to work in the UK

In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment.  We have assessed this role and do not consider that we would be able to sponsor a successful candidate under the Skilled Worker route as the role does not meet the relevant Home Office criteria; the successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their own right to work during the recruitment process without Sincereal sponsorship.

Equal Opportunities

We work together as one team. Everyone is welcome here, and we treat each other with fairness, respect, and equality