Logistics financial coordinator
Title: Logistics Financial Coordinator
Hours: 37.5 per week
Location: Grangemouth – Office-based 5 days
Salary: Competitive
Contract type: Permanent
ABOUT US
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A truly global company, INEOS comprises of 36 businesses with 194 sites in 29 countries throughout the world. We also encompass a range of consumer brands and sports interests.
INEOS Grangemouth is an integrated refinery and petrochemicals centre of excellence. We are the largest manufacturing site in Scotland. Click here to find out more Grangemouth | INEOS.
We pride ourselves in offering a working environment that is friendly and welcoming, that offers employees true autonomy and empowerment and that enables everyone to achieve their goals and to have a fulfilling professional career with us. At Grangemouth and across the wider INEOS family, there are always opportunities.
Our aim, as always, is to find new, improved ways of doing things. Whether that’s through improving the energy efficiency of our plants, developing new ways of working or delivering on our net zero promises, we like to push boundaries and overcome challenges.
If you share our vision for a sustainable future; if you possess the skills and competencies to help deliver our net zero road map; if you want to play your part in the remarkable next step the UK petrochemical sector, we’d like to hear from you.
ABOUT OUR OPPORTUNITY
The Logistics Financial Coordinator is responsible for delivering the financial transactions for the O&P UK supply chain function and identifying and developing areas for process improvement to ensure the supply chain 3rd party spend is accurate and fully understood.
Dimensions:
- Ensure payment enablers are functional and correct for all O&P business costs circa €60M.
- Verify and process annual fixed costs of the order €5M.
- Validate the value and justification for additional charges and freight costs.
- Approximately 50 vendors and 1500 deliveries transacted per month.
Key accountabilities:
- Raise annual Purchase Orders for O&P business circa €60m to allow segregated payment to vendors and ensure that correct profit centres are selected so that product costs are segregated and reported in the correct manner.
- Accurately maintain and add new routes, freight rates and carrier details into SAP as requested by the procurement team in order to ensure that deliveries can be transacted.
- Coordinate and prepare weekly and monthly self-bills for freight vendors including verifying freight costs and additional charges and checking for erroneous information to ensure accurate freight billing across the anticipated €20M polymer freight spend.
- Analyse costs provided by 3rd parties and where necessary challenge against supplier contracts, in order to support business EBITDA targets.
- Investigate and resolve invoice discrepancies to ensure that the invoices are accurate and the correct payments are processed in accordance with the relevant payment terms.
- Manipulate payload data in order to identify potential areas to maximize payload and hence reduce freight costs.
- Validate terminal costs and perform Service Entry activities by month end to ensure accurate monthly costings and to enable prompt payment to suppliers.
- Prepare accruals for expected costs not received prior to month-end closure to ensure that any future costs are anticipated.
- Support both the preparation of the annual budget and supply chain projects by providing accurate financial data so that both these activities can be developed with confidence in the knowledge that the data required is correct.
- Identify and develop improvements to the financial transaction processes in order to increase efficiency and reduce workload.
- Perform a number of safety related checks at designated intervals to support delivery of O&P UK HSE objectives.
- Prepare monthly report showing the additional cost to the business of doing non-optimal moves versus optimal.
ABOUT YOU
You should:
- Have a HNC in a related discipline or suitable previous work experience.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to use the SAP ERP system.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent behavioural and relationship skills.
- Confident communicator and must be able to interact across various levels both internally and externally.
- Able to express financial and SAP issues to personnel who are otherwise unfamiliar with these issues.
- Ability to work productively when under pressure and under tight time restraints, meet deadlines and multi-task.
You may also:
- Have previous supply chain experience.
- Have experience of accountancy practices.
Special Features:
- Due to the nature of the role, there is a requirement to work month-end closures.
WHAT WE OFFER
- 34 days holiday.
- Benefits Platform – access to discounts on high street stores. Discounted PMI, travel insurance, etc.
- Up to 20% discretionary bonus opportunity.
- Scottish Widows contributory pension including employer contributions.
- Free on-site gym.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Enhanced maternity leave.
- Salary Sacrifice car and Cycle to Work schemes.
- Ongoing career development.
HOW TO APPLY
Application Process
Interested candidates should submit their CV via our website ineosopportunities.co.uk
Pre-screen (If applicable)
Applicants with a successful CV may be invited to an online MS Teams or telephone call to further discuss the role, the organisation and your suitability.
Formal Interview
Successful applicants will then be invited to interview which will consist of behavioural and technical questions.
Provisional Offer
If you are selected as the preferred candidate you will receive a provisional offer which will be subject to a medical assessment and reference checks.
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