Accounts Receivable Accountant

Working in the finance team at GANT means being at the heart of a global lifestyle brand with a rich heritage and a forward-looking mindset. As our Accounts Receivable Accountant, you will play an important role in ensuring the smooth running of daily cash and credit control processes, while developing your expertise in an international, fast-moving business environment.

In this role, you will take responsibility for the accuracy of store cash procedures and support wholesale customer invoicing and credit control processes across the UK and Nordics. You will be the first point of contact for store managers and cash collection providers in the UK, Ireland and Denmark – giving you valuable exposure to both internal teams and external partners.

This position is an excellent opportunity to build a solid foundation in accounting and finance. You'll learn from senior AR colleagues, work closely with multiple departments and play an active role in improving processes, all while growing your career in a collaborative and supportive team.

Key tasks & responsibilities:

• Record and reconcile daily cash receipts. Ensure cash transactions are posted correctly and match off against the corresponding sale/return entries.
• Track store cash balances, organise cash collections, maintain floats and probe differences.
• Support gift card processes across retail stores and e-commerce, including reconciliations of gift cards, store credits and customer bonus systems.
• Ownership of selected balance sheet accounts and the associated reconciliations.
• Post and reconcile monthly department store settlements for loyalty scheme and e-commerce transactions.
• Provide finance support for new store openings and closures.
• Assist with credit control activities, including raising customer invoices, uploading data onto customer portals, allocating payments and reconciling consignment customer entries.
• Help investigate customer debit notes and discrepancies between invoiced amounts and remittances.
• Process new customer and supplier set-up requests in line with company policies and controls.
• Support the Head of Accounting and senior AR colleagues with cash analysis, auditor requests and ad hoc tasks.

Cross-department collaboration:

• Work closely with the retail team to resolve customer transaction queries, monitor cash balances and provide information or analysis as needed.
• Act as a point of contact for the customer service team to facilitate customer requests.
• Collaborate with the systems and IT teams to review unusual, missing or incorrect transactions.
• Build strong working relationships with senior AR colleagues in the UK and Sweden, assisting with problem-solving and providing cover where appropriate.

Profile

Knowledge requirements:

• Solid understanding of accounting principles, double-entry bookkeeping and reconciliations.
• Awareness of revenue recognition and cash-handling processes within a retail environment.

Practical experience:

• At least 1-2 years in an accounting/finance role (retail sector preferred).

Educational level:

• AAT, or university degree in accounting/finance (preferred but not essential).

Systems:

• Proficient with Microsoft Office, especially Excel (pivot tables, XLOOKUPs, reconciliations).
• Experience with SAP (or another ERP system) is desirable.

Language skills:

• English (both written and spoken).

Personal characteristics:

• Organised, structured and detail-oriented; able to prioritise effectively.
• Strong problem-solver with persistence to investigate issues thoroughly.
• Proactive, willingness to take ownership of tasks and suggest process improvements.
• Clear communicator, confident working with colleagues across teams.
• Positive, adaptable and collaborative team player.

Benefits:

• Clothing allowance (taxable benefit)
• 50% discount including sale items (25% in outlets)
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Extra day off for your birthday
• 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Study support available for exceptional candidates
• Annual pay review
• My GANT Rewards Programme, providing savings with cashback and discounts with hundreds of retailers and services
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance (Death in Service)

Right to work in the UK

In accordance with Home Office guidance, successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. We have assessed this role and do not consider that we would be able to sponsor a successful candidate under the Skilled Worker route as the role does not meet the relevant Home Office criteria; the successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their own right to work during the recruitment process without GANT sponsorship.

GANT is one of the inspiring brands driven by passionate people of the MF Brands Group, alongside with Lacoste, Aigle, and Tecnifibre. Please visit the group website for more information.