Advisor - Financial Accounting 
£26,000 - £28,000 plus great benefits (Work level 6C)
Manchester city centre, working in a hybrid way, splitting your time between home and coming into the office around once a week. You can find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy

We’re looking for a motivated Advisor to join our Financial Accounting team 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, you’ll support the Food financial accounting processes and ensure accuracy and timeliness in our financial controls. If you’re eager to enhance your reconciliation skills, this position offers excellent hands-on experience. You'll gain valuable insights within a dynamic accounting environment, all while benefiting from ongoing professional development and qualification support. This is a fantastic opportunity to advance your accounting career and take on greater responsibilities as you grow with us. If you're ready to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you.

What you'll do

• Calculate, process and reverse journals 
• Complete a number of balance sheet reconciliations, making sure that all reconciling items are investigated and resolved on time
• Use your excellent stakeholder engagement skills by managing and resolving their queries
• Complete audit requests accurately and on-time
• Provide cover within the team for sickness and holiday leave whenever necessary

This role would suit people who have

• An AAT qualification, looking to study towards or currently working towards gaining this qualification
• Basic accountancy and reconciliations experience
• The ability to work independently when necessary as well as in part of a wider team
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills – we’ll need you to be confident in manipulating formulas, using pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, SUMIFs and IF statements
• Experience with data analysis - you're able to analyse large sets of data
• Great communication skills up to senior level with the ability to explain technical information to non-technical audiences in a clear way

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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