Finance Assistant Accountant

36 Hours p/w

If you’re keen to develop your Finance experience within a FTSE 100 retailer and are looking for a varied role, we might have the perfect position for you.

About the Team

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our dynamic Finance team who are responsible for supporting our 500+ retail stores. Our Retail Cash Accounting team are responsible for delivering finance support to a number of key stakeholders across the business for a variety of purposes including:

• Tender Management
• Producing Management Information
• Monitoring and assessing performance statistics and trends
• Daily and weekly payment reconciliations
• Deliver project testing and reporting

About the role

You will:

• Be responsible for reconciling and managing retail stores credit and debit card and gift card balances for annual sales of around £2.6bn.
• Conducting analysis of banking write off P&L accounts, correcting any miss-postings and liaising with other departments and stores to correct errors.
• Liaise with various third parties to resolve any payment variances.
• Monitor and assess performance statistics and trends including identifying any problem areas/ concerns, reporting findings to be used in improving processes and conducting fraud management reporting.
• Provide detailed data analysis in relation to retail payments and conducting analysis and critical assessments of data.
• Be a key driver in project testing in terms of scoping tests and assessing the resultant output.

Criteria

About You

• Experience in a similar role and ideally part qualified and working towards CIMA/ ACCA/ ACA
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• High work tempo with the ability to work in a fast paced environment with changing priorities
• Proven ability to plan and prioritise workloads whilst working within required deadlines
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to put forwards new ideas and processes and influence key stakeholders across the business
• Strong Excel skills and ideally experience of Power Pivot and SQL would be advantageous

Benefits

• Bonus Scheme
• Pension Scheme
• ShareSave Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Staff Discount
• On-site Nursery

About Next

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 43,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 540 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!

Closes 24th Mar 2019

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.