Senior Reconciliation Analyst – 6 month Fixed Term Contract/Secondment

£26,500 to £30,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 6B) 

Manchester head office, hybrid. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way – splitting your time between home and the office, typically on Thursdays (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy)

We’re looking for a Senior Reconciliation Analyst to join our Co-op Business Services (CBS) team. 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 be in charge of the daily operations of the reconciliation team, ensuring everything runs smoothly. We’ll rely on you to make sure the work gets done on time and meets our high standards, while you juggle service agreements and targets. If you're seeking the next big step in your reconciliation career, this is your chance to get hands-on experience and exposure to the broader financial accounting team. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

What you’ll do

• Manage team resource to make sure accurate and timely reconciliations are produced monthly 
• Work with the reconciliations team making sure the creditors’ balances are kept up to date and any aged items are action and resolved 
• Support the team as a referral point on reconciliation and journal queries 
• Make sure service level agreements and key performance indicators are managed and understood by the team 
• Assess and improve the controls within the processes to make sure that any risks are managed and negated 

This role would suit people who have

• Experience with reconciliations 
• Good understanding of controls in reconciliation and experience building them into processes 
• Good relationship forming skills with both internal and external partners 
• The ability to continuously improve processes with the confidence to challenge when necessary 

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 – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Grocery Aid – 24/7 access to a range of emotional, financial, and practical support services for you and your family

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.