Assistant Accountant

2 months ago


Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom Next PLC Full time

Job Description

Job Title: Assistant Accountant

Location: Head Office, Leicestershire

Salary: Competitive plus bonus & benefits

This is a fantastic opportunity for a part qualified accountant to join a dynamic finance team supporting the Next business. Located within our Leicestershire Head Office, our Cash Accounting team is responsible for delivering finance support to key stakeholders across the business for a variety of purposes.

About You

Next is a dynamic and fast growing business, to succeed in this role you must be happy in a fast-moving, fluid, ever-changing environment. You will need a mixture of solid financial / management accounting skills, coupled with financial analysis to maintain core financial controls, support 'Key Stakeholders' and business initiatives.

You are ideally someone who thinks about the impact on the Customer and wider Business, a person that above all values the need for procedure, control and auditability.

Working as an integral part of our cash accounting team, the successful candidate will be primarily responsible for supporting our UK Retail and Online business.

Key Responsibilities

Finance Management

  • Responsibility for all payments for Next UK Retail stores
  • Ownership of retail tender reconciliations c.£2bn p.a
  • Daily reconciliation of retail payments received (c.£20m p.a) to ensure discrepancies are resolved in a timely manner (470 Next stores)

Cost Management

  • Review and validation of invoiced charges in line with contracted rates
  • Ensure costs are accurately accrued each month

Analysis and Reporting

  • Provide daily / weekly reporting around key cash KPIs to support Retail Field Team to address any issues
  • Support the audit process with any ad hoc queries

What we are looking for

  • A proactive Part qualified accountant CIMA/ACCA/ACA with proven experience of working in a large company
  • The ability to work productively, efficiently and effectively, maintaining attention to detail and quality
  • Strong problem solving skills and the ability to think outside the box
  • Ability to self motivate in a fast pace challenging and demanding environment with changing priorities
  • Proven ability to plan and prioritise workloads whilst working to strict deadlines
  • Can effectively communicate both orally and in writing and have the ability to influence and constructively challenge
  • Strong control skills
  • Exceptional working knowledge of MS Office (esp. MS Excel) suite of products, Google G Suite is desirable
  • SQL & Microsoft SSMS is experience is desirable

About Us

You know Next, but did you know we're a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 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 500 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

About some of our Benefits

  • 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
  • Company performance based bonus
  • Sharesave scheme
  • On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
  • 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
  • Early VIP access to sale stock
  • Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
  • Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
  • Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
  • Free on-site parking
  • Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
  • Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
  • Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
  • Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
  • Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more

Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on and leave a voicemail.

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


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