Financial Accountant

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast‑paced, highly collaborative finance team where your technical expertise and ideas will genuinely shape how the function operates. If you’re motivated by process efficiency, enjoy solving complex financial challenges, and want to be part of a company committed to becoming a Great Place to Work, this role offers the perfect platform to grow, influence and make a meaningful impact.

Financial Accountant

Kegworth Head Office

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

Permanent

Reward & Benefits:

• Annual bonus


• Annual 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

Manage and enhance all financial accounting activities in the Business Unit.

The Financial Accountant acts as an entrepreneur and is committed to developing high performance teams and at the same time acts as a role model in terms of demonstrating and living Refresco’s core values and behaviours.

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

• VAT compliance — Manage UK VAT processes, monthly reconciliations, quarterly HMRC filings, and resolve VAT queries.


• Intercompany accounting — Coordinate UK intercompany reconciliations, validate costs, and resolve global intercompany issues.


• Financial close — Deliver accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities.


• Balance sheet control — Reconcile key balance sheet accounts and post journals.


• Forecasting support — Provide data and insight for budgeting and forecasting of intercompany balances.


• Cross‑functional contribution — Support Treasury, lead/participate in business projects, and contribute to Great Place to Work initiatives.

About You

The ideal candidate will be studying toward near‑completion of ACA, ACCA or an equivalent qualification and will have extensive experience either reviewing financial records for external audit or owning the audit process within an accounts department. They will bring strong experience preparing full statutory accounts within a large business, alongside practical exposure to FMCG and/or manufacturing environments. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to identify and implement more efficient methodologies that improve speed and efficiency without compromising accuracy, as well as recognise opportunities to achieve cost savings while safeguarding the company’s financial and operational position.

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.