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About us

Our ambition is to double the number of lives we impact, while making life more rewarding and dignified for the people who use our products and services. To achieve this, we focus on attracting, developing, rewarding and retaining great people, and on creating a high-performing, inclusive working environment.

Fittleworth Medical is a leading Dispensing Appliance Contractor (DAC), providing a discreet and reliable home dispensing service to more than 60,000 clients across the UK. We support people with a wide range of needs, including a cut-to-fit stoma product customisation service, ensuring care is tailored to each individual.

We are part of the wider JDS Family and are continuing through a period of rapid growth and transformation. Our services are delivered through a dedicated Customer Service Team and 38 dispensing centres nationwide.

At the heart of Fittleworth are our 360 employees, who live and breathe our core principles and proudly carry forward the Schneider legacy.

Immutable Principles

The Immutable Principles are timeless guideposts that define what it means to be an employee at Fittleworth. We strive to embody these qualities in our actions as individuals and as a company.

Dignity of the Person

Our employees, indeed, all people, have dignity and intrinsic value independent of the work they do. We treat each other with respect. We vigilantly strive to meet the needs of those who use our products and services. In the process, we make life more rewarding for them and we ourselves become better human beings.

Service

We serve those who use our products and services, our other customers, each other, and our communities, all with humility, compassion, and perseverance.

Integrity

Integrity is at the heart of how we do business. The ethical way is the only way. We are open and truthful, treat others justly, and do the right thing even when it is difficult.

Stewardship

We have been entrusted with an independent and employee-owned company. As stewards of that trust, we are guided by the policies and principles of our founder, John Dickinson Schneider, to ensure that Hollister continues in perpetuity as independent and employee owned and that as the company grows and prospers, it remains financially strong.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain accurate financial records, journals, accruals, prepayments, and reconciliations.
• Lead or support month-end close activities, ensuring balances are complete, accurate, and supported.
• Maintain the fixed asset register and depreciation processes.
• Support statutory reporting, audits, and regulatory requirements.
• Deliver balance sheet and income statement analysis and reconciliations.
• Provide financial insights, analysis, and reporting to stakeholders.
• Support inventory accounting, including valuation, obsolescence review, and costing processes.
• Partner with accounts payable and receivable teams to ensure accurate processing and reconciliation.
• Contribute to process improvement, automation, and control enhancement initiatives.
• Collaborate effectively across finance and the wider business.

Essential Functions of the Role

• Maintain integrity of the general ledger in accordance with accounting standards and internal controls.
• Perform timely reconciliations of key balance sheet accounts.
• Support cashflow forecasting and financial planning activities.
• Prepare and review financial data for completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
• Respond to internal and external audit requests with appropriate documentation.
• Translate financial data into clear insights for non-finance stakeholders.
• Apply professional judgement to resolve accounting issues and discrepancies.

Qualifications and Experience

• A University Graduate with a minimum 2:1 qualification; ideally within Finance, Economics, Mathematics.
• A strong interest in finance with an expectation to complete ACCA / CIMA qualification if not already qualified.
• Previous experience working in a finance team.
• Strong computer literacy with a good working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and Outlook – Microsoft Dynamics experience would be highly advantageous.
• Logical and analytical thinker with strong numerical skills and the ability to challenge and influence.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build effective working relationships at all organisation levels.
• Natural curiosity and drive to always ask 'why' and provide actionable insight through analysis of data and translation of what the data is telling us.
• Business partnering experience to liaise with stakeholders across the whole business.
• Strong organisational skills with a focus on achieving deadlines.
• Team player with a positive "can do" attitude.
• Customer focused and service driven.
• Self-motivated with the ability to take ownership, to work autonomously and use initiative.
• Personal integrity and professionalism.
• Ability to use initiative and perform under pressure.
• Confident with ability to influence and persuade others.
• Strong attention to detail is essential.

What we offer

• Life Insurance cover worth 10x your annual salary (subject to T&C's of policy).
• 8.5% employer pension contribution.
• Salary Sacrifice.
• Private healthcare options including for family members.
• Access to "fittle-perks" – our reward platform full of discounts and wellbeing tools.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy and sell extra days.
• 1 "Me Day" and 1 paid Volunteer Day every year.
• Support for families, including enhanced family-friendly policies.
• Employee Assistance Programme for everyday support.
• Refer a friend scheme if you bring great people into the team.