Assistant Accountant

The Role & Key Responsibilities Job Title: Assistant Accountant Location: United Kingdom (Flexible) Contract type: Fixed Tem – 12 months Package includes: Salary from £35,000 plus pension contributions matched up to 10%, and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing, and everyday life. Germains Seed Technology, a global leader in seed technology, is seeking a talented professional to join our team.

As our next Assistant Accountant, you will play a key role in supporting the financial operations of our European business, ensuring accurate financial reporting, maintaining strong financial controls, and partnering with stakeholders across multiple locations. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced finance professional who enjoys working in a collaborative international environment and wants to contribute to continuous improvement projects while developing their career within a global organisation.

What you'll be doing: Supporting accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, and payment processes to ensure accuracy and timeliness. Maintaining daily bank reconciliations and managing banking administration activities. Reconciling and settling intercompany balances. Preparing VAT (BTW), tax, Intrastat, and government statistical reporting.

Preparing month-end reports, accruals, prepayments, journals, and balance sheet reconciliations. Supporting internal and external audits and preparing year-end reporting information. Supporting stock control activities, stock reconciliations, and stock revaluation processes.

What you'll bring

Minimum Level 4 qualification in an administrative or finance-related discipline, or equivalent experience. At least 3 years' experience in an accounting role within a private-sector organisation. Experience in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processes. Strong Excel skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

Strong attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining accurate financial records. The ability to work effectively across different locations, cultures, and teams. A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and excellent customer service. 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.

About The Company Rewarding your Passion When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and 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

Germains Seed Technology's mission is to ‘maximise nature’s potential’ by using its seed technology processing know-how and deep expertise to unlock the genetic potential of seeds for food production. At a time when pressure on land, water and resources is greater than at any time in human history, Germains exists to help our customers maximise the productivity and cost-effectiveness of their crops.

Our team of around 200 people work across the USA, Europe and the UK. We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division 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