The Company
Join a heritage brand with a passion for quality.
For over 50 years, Cottage Delight has crafted artisan jams, marmalades, chutneys and sauces in the Staffordshire Moorlands. We are a values-led business with a passion for quality, creativity and bringing people together through great food.
Role overview:
We’re looking for a hands-on manufacturing-finance all-rounder to own credit control and Accounts Receivable while supporting reporting, analysis, systems and continuous improvement across our finance team.
Around half of the role is focused on credit control. The rest offers variety across management accounts, reconciliations, analysis, automation and wider finance support. You’ll have real ownership, visibility across the business and scope to develop.
Key Responsibilities
Credit control and Accounts Receivable
- Own the sales ledger, cash collection and day-to-day Accounts Receivable activity.
- Build positive customer relationships and handle overdue debt conversations confidently.
- Resolve account queries, disputed invoices and payment deductions.
- Review aged debt, collection forecasts, credit risks and customer credit limits.
- Keep customer accounts accurate and support cash-flow forecasting.
Reporting and analysis
- Support monthly management accounts, journals and balance-sheet reconciliations.
- Produce KPI reporting and analysis that helps explain business performance.
- Assist with budgets, forecasts and year-end requirements.
Systems and improvement
- Use Excel, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables and ideally Power Query, to improve reporting.
- Identify practical opportunities to simplify, automate and strengthen finance processes.
- Help us get more from EFACS and support Accounts Payable automation.
Wider finance support
- Provide cover across Accounts Payable, supplier reconciliations and payment processing.
- Support credit-card administration, audit preparation and financial controls.
What we’re looking for
About you
- Finance experience in a manufacturing or production environment.
- Strong practical sales ledger and credit-control knowledge.
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with data.
- Confident communication with customers and colleagues at all levels.
- A practical, organised approach with sound judgement and attention to detail.
- Curiosity, commercial awareness and a willingness to take ownership and improve how things are done.
- A positive, team-first approach.
Qualifications
You may be part-qualified and studying, qualified by experience with strong manufacturing-finance knowledge, or fully qualified and looking for a varied, hands-on role. Capability, experience, attitude and potential matter more to us than job titles or ticking every box.
Useful, but not essential
- EFACS or another manufacturing ERP system.
- Management accounts, budgeting, forecasting or year-end support.
- Process automation or finance-system implementation.
- Manufacturing costs, inventory or standard costing.
Why join us?
- Join a heritage premium-food brand where quality and detail matter.
- Be part of a friendly, collaborative finance team.
- Play a visible role in commercial decision-making and process improvement.
- Build broader finance experience with genuine scope to grow.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
