Job Title: Interim Finance Accountant (3 Month Fixed Term Contract)
Location: Peterborough
Contract and Shift details: Hybrid (2 - 3 days in office)
Are you an experienced Financial Accountant looking for an opportunity to make an immediate impact? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where your expertise helps maintain strong financial controls, ensure statutory compliance, and support critical year-end activities?
Our Group Finance team are looking for an Interim Financial Accountant to join them on a 3–4 month fixed-term contract during an exciting period of transition. In this role, you'll take ownership of key financial accounting processes, support year-end reporting and external audit activities, and help ensure our finance operations continue to run smoothly while we recruit a permanent Group Accountant.
What you'll be doing:
- Taking ownership of the Group's monthly VAT returns, ensuring accurate and timely submission.
- Managing the annual PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA) process and completing Office for National Statistics (ONS) reporting.
- Supporting month-end close activities, including journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Assisting with year-end financial reporting and preparing audit schedules, statutory accounts working papers and supporting documentation.
- Liaising with external auditors and responding to audit queries in a timely and professional manner.
- Ensuring compliance with HMRC requirements, statutory reporting deadlines and internal financial controls.
- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance finance processes and reporting.
Providing flexible support across the wider Group Finance team during peak workload periods and other ad hoc financial reporting activities.
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What you'll bring:
- Part-qualified ACCA, CIMA or ACA, or be Qualified by Experience (QBE).
- Previous experience in a Financial Accountant, Group Accountant or Management Accountant role.
- Strong knowledge of VAT legislation, compliance and statutory reporting requirements.
- Experience preparing balance sheet reconciliations and supporting month-end activities.
- Experience supporting year-end processes and working with external auditors.
- A sound understanding of financial controls and accounting principles.
- Strong Excel skills and experience using ERP or accounting systems (experience with Microsoft Dynamics or M3 would be advantageous).
- Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities.
Where growth meets purpose
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
