Finance Associate - Credit Control (12 Month FTC)
Manchester (Manchester) Accounting / Management control
Job description
Please note, this role is based out of our Manchester Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the Manchester SSC 2 days per week on average.
As a Finance Associate - Credit Control you will ensure that aged debt is at a minimum through proactive chasing and ensuring reporting and analysis of this data is accurate and shared across the team/business. You will reconcile balance sheets and raise journals, as well as having a proactive approach to process improvements and automation of procedures.
More about the role
- Proactively investigate and chase debt across a wide-ranging ledger using various systems to ensure team KPI’s are met
- Build relationships with all internal and external Stakeholders
- Escalate queries and problem accounts as necessary and engage with various stakeholders to ensure resolution
- Aged Debt report updated with Notes to ensure accurate cash collection
- Support delivery of audit deliverables and internal controls management
- Ensure you have a good understanding of all tasks across the team for absence and holiday cover
- Support process efficiency improvements, working with Sainsbury’s Business Services (SBS) and Offshore team to deliver change
- Ensure process maps and guides are up to date and new ones implemented where required
- Identify and make process improvements to ensure that any risk element is identified and eliminated at source
- Identify areas for development and use own initiative to drive change
More about you
- Good knowledge of Basic accounting
- Intermediate Excel and use of other Microsoft packages
- Numerate and well organised
- Strong Communication skills
- Credit Control or Accounts Payable experience is desirable
- Basic accounting knowledge of invoice, credit notes, debit notes and VAT is desirable
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.