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Finance Adminstrator page is loaded## Finance Adminstratorremote type: Site Basedlocations: Belper: Featherstonetime type: Part timeposted on: Posted Yesterdayjob requisition id: R-12008**About the Role**DS Smith is looking for a **Finance Administrator** to join our team on a fixed-term maternity cover contract. Reporting to the **Operations Finance Manager**, you’ll play a key role in supporting financial processes and ensuring we meet our business objectives across DS Smith Packaging.***Key Responsibilities: (included but not limited)**** Provide support for ad hoc site queries and analysis of key business performance metrics.* Use SAP and other systems to generate credit notes and supplementary sales invoices as required.* Assist the Operations Finance team at month-end to ensure accurate and complete SSC transactional processing.* Collaborate with site teams to improve efficiencies and enhance financial processes for effective cost and margin control.* Manage site workflow, ensuring items are kept to a minimum, costs are valid, and coding is accurate and consistent.* Maintain purchase order integrity by ensuring open POs remain valid, closing those no longer required, and matching against workflow items where appropriate.**About You**We’re seeking a Finance Administrator with a strong foundation in finance and excellent reporting skills, ideally with experience using SAP. You’ll be confident working under pressure and meeting tight deadlines, while demonstrating advanced proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel. Attention to detail is critical, alongside a flexible, proactive approach and the ability to challenge and hold others accountable when necessary. Strong communication skills are essential, as you’ll collaborate effectively across all levels of the business. If you’re driven, accurate, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is a fantastic opportunity to make an impact.***Minimum Requirements:**** Strong Excel and numerical skills* Understanding of finance administration and control* Self-motivated with a proactive attitude* Previous finance experience, ideally with SAP and strong reporting skills* Excellent communication skills; able to interact effectively at all levelsHighly organised with strong planning and prioritisation abilities* Driven, inquisitive mindset with enthusiasm for continuous improvement* Advantageous - Business or finance-related qualification (e.g., AAT)**Benefits**Additional benefits include:* 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (pro rated)* Pension scheme* Life assurance* Income protection* Employee assistance program* Cycle to work scheme* Shopping discounts**Location**: Belper or Featherstone**Hours:** Part Time – Monday to Friday – Hours Flexible – (2 days working from home)**Duration**: Maternity Cover – 6 – 12 months FTCWe’re DS Smith, the company who are redefining packaging for a changing world. We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. Today, we operate in more than 30 different countries, supporting customers across sectors like FMCG, industrial, and e-commerce. We deliver on quality, service, innovation, and added value to deliver market-leading sustainable packaging solutions our customers need. Our industry needs to transform, and we’re building the team to drive change across Europe and North America***To fulfil our purpose of redefining packaging for a changing world, we aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce. Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.******Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.******#LI-CE***We are DS Smith, together with International Paper, we are a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions and other fibre-based products.We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. We employ more than 60,000 colleagues in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), who are experts in innovation,manufacturing, design, sales, sustainability, supply chain, and much more. Together with our customers, we make the world safer and more productive, one sustainable packaging solution at a time. Become part of a world-leading organisation and do your best work with us!