Operational Accountant

Ask any wilko team member about us and the first thing they would mention is the people. Passionate people who encourage and respect each other, pulling together to keep wilko a much-loved high-street name by being better every day and ensuring we always inject some fun along the way. We appreciate our team members and the value they add to our business. We are looking for an enthusiastic team member to join our Finance team as a Operational Accountant based at our Worksop Support Centre. This is a great role for a newly qualified Accountant. As our Operational Accountant you'll be part of a Finance power duo, supporting a specific function with financial advice and analysis alongside our Finance Manager. By working cross functionally you will help to support the operation by keeping controls and processes in place, ensuring the financial information given provides the right basis for decision making. Taking huge pride in what you do, your role will involve: * Ensuring that rigorous controls and processes are in place to safeguard business assets and maintain the integrity of financial data and reporting, and that these are adhered to. * Timely review of accruals and prepayments utilising knowledge from relevant accounting standards. * Providing a link between the financial control team and the wider finance team for financial accounting matters. * General ledger reconciliations and appropriate analysis on a periodic and ad hoc basis. * Providing a support service to other Finance areas and with the wider business through the appraisal and analysis of financial performance and the implementation of best practice. * Supporting in the delivery of key financial measures including the year end audit, statutory accounts and changes in accounting standards. From you, we need you to have a minimum of 3 years' experience of working in finance and a professional qualification e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA. If would be great if you've worked in a large Retail/FMCG environment too. We also need you to have excellent excel and analytical skills with an ability to manipulate complex data sets. We know it's not just about the role but how we can reward you too, so with every role comes a competitive salary, a brilliant rewards scheme, 33 days holiday entitlement (inc Bank Holidays) rising to 38 days after 5 years' service, a great pension scheme, an exceptional array of apprenticeships, wilko WOW flexible benefits (such as great discounts on shopping, days out, holidays, health and fitness and money-saving schemes to cut the costs of childcare), holiday homes and most importantly 20% team member and family discount in store and online. We want you to be yourself here at wilko. We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek to build talented diverse teams at our Support Centre, Retail Stores and Distribution Centres. If you're invited to an interview with us we can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs.