Company Overview
Kingsland Drinks is a well-established premier independent UK supplier of wine and spirits specialising in providing a complete category solution. Using our consumer understanding and drinks experience, we provide innovative, bespoke solutions to become the partner of choice as we create value for our customers.
Working at Kingsland, a company that is employee owned, means that you can suggest ideas and innovative ways in how we, as a collective run our business. Our most important stakeholder is our members (employees), who have also been key to our success. We have built on our heritage, with a family ethic, and always tried to encourage a positive can-do culture that encourages individual responsibility. We have always valued our members contribution and we recognise that the success of Kingsland has only been possible with everyone’s valued contributions.
Our key objective when we decided on the next step on the journey for Kingsland is for our business to continue to grow and develop and provide security for all our stakeholders. We strongly believe we have created a great legacy that we want to securely hand this on to the next generation and beyond, so the future of the business remains in its own hands. We want Kingsland Drinks Group to be a place people enjoy coming to work and a business our members feel proud of.
We are looking for passionate, professional, and fun-loving candidates to join our expanding business here in Manchester! As we’re accredited in IIP, we are invested in looking after our members and training / developing you to fulfil your careers.
Role Summary:
As a Stock Accountant, you will be responsible for reporting and performing analysis on our stock on our SAP system, performing periodic & weekly reconciliations to support the finance team with period-end and audit queries, as well as ensuring a successful and timely period-end close.
On top of this, the candidate will support the finance business partners with variance reporting and analysis, whilst developing a key understanding of the GL postings of these variances. They will also support the FBP’s with weekly/monthly reporting, with an opportunity to develop their own business partnering skills
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain robust controls & reporting for all costs of sales, Excise/CCT and overhead elements in the inventory value
- Ensure all packaging, bulk and finished goods stock is accurately recorded, reconciled and valued
- Support external inventory control processes, including audits and physical stock counts
- Periodic journal postings of stock provisions for all material components
- Weekly reconciliations of stock holdings to support our finance manager in managing the funding lenders
- Manage returnable packaging costs and ensure correct period-end settlement reporting
- Perform routine material standard cost reviews and periodic SAP standard cost updates
- Develop and deliver variance reporting and KPI analysis across the Operations functions
- Develop and deliver a robust process for monitoring and controlling the obsolete stock process, working with the FBP’s
- Support our warehouse team with costings for stock adjustments and destroyed stock.
- Delivering Key reports to support our FBP’s
The Candidate:
- Part Qualified or Relevant Degree
- Experience working within a finance function (Stock experience desirable)
- SAP experience is desirable but not essential
- Proficient in Excel for data analysis and reconciliations
At Kingsland we offer a wide range of benefits:
- Highly competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement that increases with length of service
- Company day at Christmas, to share with your nearest and dearest
- Annual profit share based on company KPI’s
- Huge discounts on wine and spirits in our company shop!
- Flexible working options
- Life assurance cover
- A generous thank-you gift if you 'recommend a friend' to work with us too. Lots of people work alongside their loved ones at Kingsland.
- Wellbeing resources, including Mental Health First Aiders and access to an EAP with free counselling. Your wellbeing is a top priority, and there's lots of support at Kingsland.
- Well-being App to help support your mental health
- Health Checks (diabetes/blood pressure, stop smoking advice etc.)
- Training and progression opportunities open to all, including fully funded apprenticeships.
- Involvement with New product development (Wine / Spirit tasting)
- On-site free car parking
- Electric Vehicle charging
- Local Community involvement – Irlam Live ticket discounts and Rugby ticket discounts
We welcome applications from everyone. If you have got the talent, the potential, the drive, and determination there is a place for you at Kingsland Drinks Group.
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Irlam M44
