About the company
We’re a top 10 UK clothing, footwear and homeware digital retailer based in Manchester. Our retail brands include JD Williams, Simply Be, and Jacamo. We champion inclusivity by making our customers look and feel amazing. We don’t believe that age, size, shape or background should stop anyone from feeling confident, stylish and happy with the way they look and feel. With our industry leading expertise in creating fashion that fits, we’ve been proudly breaking down these barriers for over 160 years. We help our customers to express themselves with stylish products, helpful services and flexible finance. Now, we’re moving forward together, embracing innovation and new technology, to continue to delight our customers.
About the role
Finance: Financial Services: within this department, you will support a variety of tasks that helps our Financial Services division to secure funding that enables us to offer credit to underserved customers, whilst also getting involved in creating the end-to-end accounts.
Group Finance: within this department, you will broaden your understanding of all the teams that keep our business moving forward and on track, by getting in involved with tasks relating to month-end reporting, through to Group consolidation, external audits, processing payments to employees and suppliers, and tax and treasury.
Commercial Finance: within this department, you will learn about how Finance supports the wider business by providing effective financial insight to make commercially sound decisions; identifying with divisional leaders’ ways in which we can make money and save money. Getting involved in the operations, you’ll gain insight to finance business partnering, strategic and tactical decision making, budgeting, forecasting and strategic business planning.
Requirements
- Minimum Maths GCSE (we are open to all disciplines and faculties).
- A commercial and numerical mindset
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Office product suite, particularly Excel i.e. Pivot Tables and V-Lookups.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A methodical, analytical approach and great problem-solving skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and a team player who could work collaboratively with other members of the team, wider Finance, and key stakeholders.
- A true collaborator with a positive and supportive approach and able to work off your own initiative.
- Desire to qualify as an accountant!
How to apply
Click here to apply (Ref ID: O768K).