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Frontier is the UK's leading crop inputs and grain marketing business, recognised for its close customer relationships with farmers and grain consumers and its successful management of the whole arable supply chain.
Frontier is pleased to confirm that we will be offering two placements for 2023 – 2024. The placements will commence in July 2023 for a period of 12 months. The successful student will have the unique opportunity to work within three key areas of the Frontier business.
The rotations will be the same for both but in different orders.
The Recruitment Process
Stage 1: Apply online (All applicants)
Stage 2: VC Interview (For those that have been shortlisted)
Stage: 3 Assessment Centre (For those that have been shortlisted)
The assessment centre for this placement opportunity will be the 6 th January 2023 and will be at our Witham St Hughs site, Lincolnshire.
Placement details
Grain Administration – July 2023 to Oct 2023
Role: Grain Administration Assistant – Witham St Hughs.
Day one
Customer Finance and Administration induction including a general business overview, Oxbury Bank, key stakeholder mapping for the department and business and accounting systems.
Grain administration
- Processing grain movement data
- Resolution of missing weights including contacting Hauliers and resolving issues
- Reconciliation of Stocks
- Reconciliation and administration of Customer queries including liaison with internal and external stakeholders
- Import/export invoicing
- An opportunity to understand how other roles within Frontier connect into Grain Administration, including Grain Trading, Planning and Forwarding
Customer Finance - Accounts Payable – Oct 2023 to Dec 2023
Role: Accounts Payable Assistant - Witham St Hughs, Lincolnshire.
Accounts payable
- Preparation and coding of admin supplier invoices
- Accurately process admin invoices to the accounting system
- Prepare and process payment runs for Farm, Consumer and Admin Suppliers
- Monitor and action the team email inbox
- Reconciliation of queries including liaison with internal and external stakeholders
- Visit to Crop Production store at Wickenby site
Role: Customer Finance Administration and Credit Control Assistant - Witham St Hughs, Lincolnshire.
Customer Finance - Administration & Credit Control – Jan 2024 to June 2024
Customer Finance Admin
- Ensure new and amended Customer and Supplier data is noted in the relevant systems in accordance with legal requirements and company procedures
- Overview of Red Tractor (Food Chain Assurance Scheme) and the relationship with Frontier
- Processing assurance data for all regulatory bodies
- Ensure data complies with GDPR regulations
Cashiering
- Preparation of customer self-billing invoices
- Daily allocation of payments into Frontier
- Liaise with Credit Controllers to reconcile payments and any Customer/Consumer queries
- Liaise with treasury to ensure payments are banked on time and any queries are resolved in a timely manner
Credit control
- To be responsible for cash collection from a specified group of customers, liaising with internal and external stakeholders to resolve any queries
- Build relationships with customers facilitating the ongoing supply of inputs and negotiating payment plans where required
- Provide, ad hoc reports, admin support for internal stores, and supply customer service of a very high standard
- Administer finance agreements within the designated area
Oxbury Bank
- Ensuring correct customer details are passed to Oxbury within GDPR parameters
- Facilitation of any campaign communications and queries as required
- Weekly and ad-hoc reporting on current referral figures
- Resolving invoice queries via banking dashboard
- Liaising with Oxbury regarding unpaid customer invoices
Understanding Customer Finance stakeholders
- Various opportunities to experience how other roles within Frontier connect with Customer Finance, including A Day in the life of a Farm Trader or Agronomist, A visit to our Crop Production store at Wickenby, A Day at one of our Trial sites
Considering the Frontier value of Expertise, we are keen to include candidates in our continuous improvement project. We would like a minimum of one proposal for an improvement either in process, task, stakeholder relationship or any other aspect of the roles experienced, for both Customer Finance and Grain Administration.
We encourage candidates to make the most of any in-house training opportunities that would enhance their skills, behaviours and personal agility.
Please note for the right candidate, there may be an opportunity to have an extended period as a harvest temp over the summer of 2024.
Personal requirements
We are looking for individuals with confidence, enthusiasm and initiative to inspire others and strive for innovation and change. With a proactive nature, you will be required to build effective working relationships inside and outside the business.
In a rapidly changing environment, you must be ready to work hard, take on new challenges and turn your ideas into reality. Analytical, hands-on qualities with positive and resilient characteristics are essential to Frontier.
With support from directors, managers and colleagues you will be expected to gain a quick understanding of our business environment and add value to our organisation. You will be actively encouraged to push boundaries and inspire new ideas and visions for the future.
About us
We live by our company values of Integrity, Customer Focus and Expertise, or 'ICE' for short. The way we
recruit, select and develop our people is no exception to this. If you are considering a role with us then we will need to:
- Understand how you put customer focus at the heart of what you do
- Know how you build trust and great relationships, always acting with integrity
- Understand how you have developed your expertise and how you are using it to benefit the customer.
Why work for Frontier?
At Frontier, we believe in rewarding our people for a job well done. As an employee you will have access to the following benefits:
- Opportunities for flexible working
- Helping you plan and save for the future with a contributory pension plan offering you a choice of contributing levels of up to 7% which is matched by us
- We know that time out is important for us all that’s why as standard we offer 25 days holiday (per annum) in addition to bank holidays with the opportunity to purchase up to an additional 5 days holiday per year
- Benefits supporting you and your family such as Life Assurance of 3x Salary
- You and your friends and family (up to five people) will have access to our Employee Assistance Programme which provides 24hour support and advice on a variety of topics including financial and wellbeing.
- Access to money saving discounts at selected retailers through our Employee Discounts Programme and our Cycle to Work scheme
- We have dedicated Learning and Development specialists to ensure our commit to your ongoing development
- Access to free eye tests across all roles
- Complimentary parking on site
