Cash Analyst - Funeralcare 

£27,000 to £33,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 6B) 

Manchester City Centre, in this role you’ll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming into the office once a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy). 

We’re looking for a Cash Analyst to join the Cash and Banking 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 control and reconcile the bank reconciliations for our Funeralcare business. We’ll look to you to resolve complex issues and support an improved reconciliation process. If you can bring us the qualification or experience we need, we can offer you the opportunity to make a positive impact on the way we do business for our customers, colleagues, and member-owners. 

What you’ll do

• Be an expert in the reconciliation of complex balance sheet reconciliations 
• Be an expert in complex bank reconciliations 
• Develop reports for internal customers to resolve reconciliation queries 
• Support team development by helping our advisors with complex queries and producing training guides 
• Guide the Funeralcare Finance administration team and other internal teams to help clear outstanding reconciliation entries 
• Work on business change programmes providing your specialist knowledge to support system roll outs 
• Find and implement ways to continuously improve processes within our team 

This role would suit people who have

• An AAT qualification, working towards one or have relevant accounting experience 
• The ability to deal with a large volume of transactions 
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage partners clearly 
• A strong attention to detail 

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 colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-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.