ABOUT US

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.
Halfords is quickly becoming a digital services business. In addition to being a leading UK retailer, Halfords has now developed a market leading field service management platform that enables businesses to deliver their complex services to customers through an end-to-end digital solution. The platform is deployed throughout Halfords stores, garages and their mobile business. The platform has now been taken to market to enable other businesses in our sector and other industries globally to deliver market leading service delivery and an unrivalled customer experience. This SaaS division is called Avayler (Avayler.com).
If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

THE ROLE

As a Finance Assistant, you take pride in building and maintaining key relationships with suppliers, ensuring invoices are processed and paid on time, and using your strong attention to detail to keep records clean and up to date.
You are highly organised and have an inquisitive nature, keen to suggest and work with your colleagues to implement process improvements to increase efficiency, while ensuring accuracy and compliance with company policies.
To you, it’s the opportunity to play a vital role in maintaining the financial health of the organisation, ensuring smooth operations and contributing to the overall success of the team.
As a Finance Assistant at Halfords, you will be part of a dynamic team of approximately six people, responsible for ensuring that an assigned group of suppliers are paid correctly, on time, and in full. This ensures that goods or services supplied to Halfords are not disrupted and that the appropriate financial records reflect all associated transactions correctly. You will also provide administrative support to the Finance and Property Teams to effectively serve the customers of the Halfords Group.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Raising purchase orders and goods receipting of invoices requesting payment against correct purchase orders.
• High-volume purchase invoice processing.
• Resolving all queries arising from activities on the assigned portion of the Accounts Payable ledger, involving research and liaison with both suppliers and colleagues throughout Halfords’ retail business via email, phone, and face-to-face interactions.
• Auditing Personal Expense Claims and Procurement Card Transactions to ensure adherence to Company Policy.
• Processing payments to suppliers and landlords.
• Assisting with month-end and KPI reporting.
• Maintaining rent payment schedules accurately, making amendments following instructions from the Property Team, and processing service charges and insurance-related payments.
• Responding to property arrears queries and advising the Property Team on legitimate arrears or working to recover overpayments.
• Supporting the assigned Team Manager with Continuous Improvement activities as required.