Reconciliations Advisor
£24,600 - £25,500 plus great benefits (Work level 6C)
Manchester city centre (hybrid working)

We're looking for a Reconciliations Advisor to join our Co-op Business Services (CBS) Finance team. You'll be working within our wider Co-op Business Services (CBS) organisation. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You’ll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of ‘co-operating to build more value for member-owners every day’.

In this role, we’ll look to you to support the Record to Report Manager, taking ownership of account reconciliations to make sure they’re accurate and up to date. If you’re looking to develop your reconciliation skills or you’re working towards gaining your AAT qualifications, then this role will provide great experience to support this. You’ll also have an exciting opportunity to gain exposure to SAP, and to work in the wider Financial Accounting team.

What you'll do

• Produce management information reports
• Complete and query control account reconciliations 
• Be responsible for accurate completion of cross system reconciliations 
• Co-ordinate the resolution and escalation of issues arising on a day-to-day basis, including resolving errors within our ecommerce food store offering
• Collate, extract and interpret data from multiple source systems to provide summary management information via various reporting techniques to support financial control
• Demonstrate and contribute to a continuous improvement ethos and way of working

This role would suit people who have

• Previous accountancy and reconciliations experience, or you’re working towards your AAT qualification
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills (you’re comfortable using pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, SUMIFS and writing formulas) with the ability to analyse large sets of data
• Great communication skills with the ability to explain technical information to non-technical audiences in a clear way
• The ability to work independently and manage your own workload 
• A flexible and adaptable attitude with a passion for self-development

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays 
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.

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