Treasury Assistant

Robert Dyas currently has an exciting opportunity to join our Finance team, the role is based in our vibrant, central Wimbledon Retail Support Centre.

What will you get from us?

There are lots of reasons to love working for Robert Dyas Aside from a fantastic team and friendly working environment, there are also these benefits to look forward to:
Competitive Salary

Bonus

Holiday Allowance

Generous discount at TPRG and our amazing benefits hub

Company Pension scheme

Access to mental health first aiders

Continued training and development opportunities.

**Overall purpose and scope of the job**:
This role is part of a small team of 2 Treasury Assistants reporting into a highly motivated Financial Controller. It's a business critical function ensuring the correct accounting for all sales from both the online and retail stores and the cash for the business. Our accounts system upgrade this year will be a catalyst for change in this department with huge scope for improvements to processes, we welcome new ideas

**Duties Include**:
Detailed transactional reconciliations of cash in transit, coinage, Klarna & credit card control accounts, to ensure all sales are received into the bank and following up discrepancies
Weekly balance sheet account reconciliations of cash in transit, coinage, vouchers, Klarna and credit card control accounts
Identify, investigate and escalate issues found
Be a key contact for Retail Store colleagues to resolve queries and issues, send out banking books, liaise with cash collections company etc
Raise and process manual payments requested by Customer Service, Trade & OverHeads Purchase Ledger teams
Investigate and challenge chargebacks, detailed tracking and reporting on chargebacks
Weekly reporting to Profit Protection team and senior personnel on cash discrepancies and chargebacks
Count and reconcile paper vouchers tendered by customers in store, track and report totals
Monthly balance sheet account reconciliations of other control accounts including charity donations and vouchers
Be a key contact for the bank and merchant services to resolve any queries or issues quickly
Holiday cover for other Treasury Assistant, cross trained on their essential tasks including Daily Sales & Cash Report sent to business owners and daily bank transaction posting
Pro-active improvements to processes and spreadsheets focusing on repetitive manual processes and work with other departments including IT to systemise some of these
Provide assistance to the Financial Controller and Finance Manager on ad hoc projects

**What we would like to see in you**:
Confident to ask questions and interact with the team and other departments

Keen to learn about the business

Attention to detail

Ability to multi task

Intermediate Excel skills, pivot tables, nested formulas etc considered an asset

Team player attitude

Accurate, thorough and well organised

**Who we are**:
We're a multiple channel retailer with just under 100 stores across Southern England and a strong online business. We began as Ironmongers 150 years ago but now we're so much more. Kitchenware, household items, electrical appliances, home office, gardening products, power tools, china, glassware, DIY, ironmongery - we have almost everything that you need for your home and garden.

We're growing a multi-channel business where our customers can choose when, where and how to shop. We're developing our e-commerce, marketing, customer service and distribution functions to support both the on and offline businesses and drive growth. It's a very exciting time to be part of a growing business that is rising to the challenges of today's retail environment.