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• Finance Manager
• Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
• £42,500 to £47,500 per annum depending on experience
• Permanent, 40 hours per week Monday-Friday
• Close date: Tuesday 4th July
• Informal Chats: Thursday 6th July

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Finance Manager with excellent organisational and communication skills to join our award-winning family business and oversee our finance department.

As our Beaverbrooks Finance Manager you will be passionate about people, have great systems knowledge and exceptional numerical skills; enabling the effective support of our Finance team to ensure that the high-volume of transactions are accurately recorded and reconciled.

This is a great opportunity to work for an award winning, jewellery retailer recognised as:

• ‘The Happiest Place to Work’, in partnership with Retail Trust, at the Retail Week Awards 2023
• The #6 Best Large Company in the UK and ‘Retail’s Best Company to Work For’ in the prestigious 100 Best Companies to Work For list 2022
• ‘Employer of the Year’ for 2022 at the UK Jewellery Awards

Working at Beaverbrooks also brings with it a whole host of rewards and benefits, some of which are:

• Great office profit share bonus
• Outstanding colleague discounts which extend to your family & friends
• Free car parking
• Wellbeing scheme
• Contributory Pension & Life Assurance
• Regular social events - including, but not limited to: pay day drinks, football hospitality events, theatre and theme park trips.
• Free eye test every 2 years
• Flu Vaccinations paid for
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package
• Maternity return to work bonus
• Employee & family support & counselling – Retail Trust

Key Responsibilities:

• Management and supervision of the transactional and banking team members, to include but not limited to:
  • Fostering a great workplace culture, that aligns with our company values
  • Providing coaching and support as systems and processes develop.
  • Developing and maintaining performance measurement (KPI'S) for the team.
• Ensuring all AP tasks are performed accurately within timescales and that all income streams are accurately recorded and flow through to monthly reconciliations of control accounts.
• Accurate and timely posting to the General Ledger of invoices, expenses, petty cash and company credit card transactions, and oversight of the monthly management accounts accruals and prepayments.
• Supporting store colleagues with POS and finance enquiries/regulations including IFC, money laundering and customer enquiries.
• Liaising with non-finance departments across the business to ensure data and systems feeding into the department are complete and accurate.
• System integrity:
  • Monitoring the accurate transfer of data between POS and finance systems through department reconciliations.
  • Testing and support for all new system/process integrations that impact on the finance function.
• Continuous improvement to processes and procedures within the department, identifying and initiating potential improvements.
• Reporting invoice payment activity in line with the government Payment Policy Reporting requirements.

• Minimum 5 years management experience of a team of 5 or more colleagues; playing an integral role in a retail or B2C finance team (AP and AR)
• Advanced Excel skills including Vlookups and pivot tables.
• A flexible and personable leadership approach.
• Experience of a retail environment and an understanding of the stock journey.
• Ability to meet objectives, working independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to build supportive relationships across different departments to drive company objectives.
• A logical and problem-solving approach to working with systems and identifying opportunities for improvements.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy and confidentiality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage with a broad range of stakeholders; providing information, support and advice.
  

Desirable Skills/ Experience

• Experience collaborating cross functionally to implement new systems, working in partnership with IT and external resource as appropriate.
• Experience of Navision software
• Experience implementing and using document scanning solutions.

We’re a family business. And you can tell that when you get here. It feels like family.

Established in 1919 we now have 73 stores across the UK and an ecommerce website, which was launched in 2001. We provide exceptional quality diamonds, jewellery and watches as well as top name brands such as TAG Heuer, Omega, Breitling, Tudor, Gucci and Vivienne Westwood.

Our purpose is to enrich lives, which simply means making a positive difference to the world we live in. We donate 20 per cent of retained profits to charity and since the year 2000, Beaverbrooks has donated £20 million to over 1000 different charities.

We pride ourselves on the work we do for local communities and in support of this we offer charity matching – you raise it, we match it! You can also take 2 paid charity days per year where you can spend time away from the business doing charity work and take time off to give blood.

If you would like to know more about Beaverbrooks, visit https://www.beaverbrooks.co.uk/about-us

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