Job Ref: 214494643

Date: 2021-08-23 15:39:18

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Our Client is one of the original, British, innovative, outdoor clothing brands. They were founded in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales in 1972. Our client have been innovators in technology, testing and garment design for almost half a century. Our client have clothed over a million people for the most inhospitable and challenging environments around the world. They have made their everyday lives a little more enjoyable, and their more modest adventures a little more possible. Our clients aim was – and is – to provide the very best, outdoor and travel, performance clothing in the world.

Who are they looking for?

Our client are seeking a sales and cash analyst to join the finance team at the company’s Head Office in Milton Keynes. This is a role that, along with bank reconciliations and sales postings, involves a significant amount of reconciling and investigating credit card, cash and customer account movements. The role is accountable for ensuring sales are reported accurately across the business.

Other Essential Qualities:

Strong numeracy skills
Excellent excel skills, including using formulas and lookups
Retail experience
Double entry knowledge
The ability to work as part of a successful financial team
The ability to communicate and work with stores/area managers and the customer services team

Excellent time management skills
Duties include:

Sales reporting

Produce daily and weekly sales reports to be sent out to the business for retail and online, comparing against targets.

Reconcile sales between different systems, understanding the differences.

Sales to Cash reconciliation

Compare cash received from Paypal, Amex, Global Pay or cheques to the sales system, ensuring amounts are fully reconciled.

Investigate timing differences, including customer’s credits on accounts and outstanding refunds to ensure all cash differences are understood and resolved.

Reconcile sales of gift cards, and purchases made using gift cards between the gift card external provider and the Rohan Designs sales system, understanding all differences and ensuring they’re resolved.

Match transactions off through the accounting system, ensuring suspense accounts for cash timing is fully reconciled.

Stores Banking and cash

Reconcile till floats and store banking to ensure amounts declared by stores match till amounts, and money banked.

Ensure all stores have a method to deposit cash, and that cash is banked regularly.

Till discrepancies

Understand and report all till discrepancies, working with stores to minimise these.

Process refunds for customers
Chargebacks and refund queries

Review chargebacks and work with the customer services or digital team to understand the cause of these and to minimise going forward.

Provide refund evidence if queried by customers

Bank reconciliations

Download bank statements and upload to the accounting system
Process journals automatically created from the bank statement, manually adjusting for any exceptions in the automated process.

Provide a list of DD payments to Accounts Payable
Investigate and journal any remaining bank transactions on accounting system
Fully reconcile all accounts

Petty Cash and foreign currency

Manage petty cash for the office and foreign currency staff loans for International trips.

Amex and Paypal fees

Process Amex and Paypal fees, ensuring journals are reviewed and checked.

Cheques

Issue cheques and bank cheques as and when required.

Stores Queries

Any queries stores have regarding EPOS, Petty Cash, PDQ machines, etc.

Social Fund Reconciliation

Manage the social fund and reconcile monthly

Company Credit Cards

Managing company credit card limits and issuing of cards

Ad-Hoc Projects

Any projects or work required by members of the team or manager

Team support

Occasional support to the rest of the finance team to help cover holidays, sickness or peaks of work.

What’s in it for you?

Having been retailing in the UK for over 40 years in the outdoor industry, our client are able to offer an excellent pay and benefits package.

Plus all of this:

Comprehensive training
Clothing allowance
50% discount on their own clothing
Contributions to a Pension scheme
Life cover based on salary
Employee Assistance Scheme
Extensive in-house training and access to e-learning modules

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

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