SENIOR RECONCILIATION ANALYST – 6 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT/SECONDMENT

£26,500 to £30,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 6B)
Manchester head office, hybrid. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way – splitting your time between home and the office, typically on Thursdays (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy)
We’re looking for a Senior Reconciliation Analyst to join our Co-op Business Services (CBS) team. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You’ll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of ‘co-operating to build more value for member-owners every day’.
In this role, you’ll be in charge of the daily operations of the reconciliation team, ensuring everything runs smoothly. We’ll rely on you to make sure the work gets done on time and meets our high standards, while you juggle service agreements and targets. If you’re seeking the next big step in your reconciliation career, this is your chance to get hands-on experience and exposure to the broader financial accounting team. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Manage team resource to make sure accurate and timely reconciliations are produced monthly
• Work with the reconciliations team making sure the creditors’ balances are kept up to date and any aged items are action and resolved
• Support the team as a referral point on reconciliation and journal queries
• Make sure service level agreements and key performance indicators are managed and understood by the team
• Assess and improve the controls within the processes to make sure that any risks are managed and negated

THIS ROLE WOULD SUIT PEOPLE WHO HAVE

• Experience with reconciliations
• Good understanding of controls in reconciliation and experience building them into processes
• Good relationship forming skills with both internal and external partners
• The ability to continuously improve processes with the confidence to challenge when necessary