FIND YOUR ROLE

Providing customers with the best products at the best prices, we believe in seeing challenges where others see problems – our culture is resilient, energetic and exceptionally fast-paced. If you think you’ve got the skills and personality to succeed in this environment, consider joining us in this key Finance role. In this role, you’ll be pivotal to ensuring that our corporate and business strategies are supported by the very best financial accounting and control processes - and that these processes continually maximise our profitability and efficiency.

YOUR ROLE

This is a great first step into industry after qualification as you will gain an understanding of your area of a large-scale retailer end-to-end, acquiring many transferable skills in the process.

As a Finance Operations Accountant within the Controllership team, you will:

• Manage the timely production of accurate financial information in the commercial area to which you are aligned (for example eCommerce, Logistics or Retail);
• Work closely with your Commercial Finance business partners to review monthly financial performance, including articulation of variances to plan/forecast;
• Lead and coach a small team of part-qualified accountants;
• Utilise your technical accounting knowledge to ensure compliance with group accounting policies and financial controls;
• Work with internal and external stakeholders on new business initiatives (including system changes) to ensure financial reporting impacts are understood and financial controls remain robust;
• Review balance sheet reconciliations and ensure your team are investigating reconciling items in a timely manner as they arise;
• Deliver continuous improvement over processes and controls performed by your team through simple process changes, using data to your advantage or automation tools.