Assistant Accountant

Job Description

Job Title: Assistant Accountant

Location: Head Office, Leicestershire

Salary: Competitive plus bonus & benefits

This is a fantastic opportunity for a part qualified accountant to join a dynamic finance team supporting the Next International Online business. Located within our Leicestershire Head Office, our Cash Accounting team is responsible for delivering finance support to key stakeholders across the business driving a variety of core processes and initiatives.

About You

Next is a dynamic and fast growing business, to succeed in this role you must be happy in a fast-moving, fluid, ever-changing environment. You will need a mixture of solid financial /management accounting skills, coupled with financial analysis to maintain core financial controls and support ‘Key Stakeholders’ across the business .

You are ideally someone who thinks about the impact on the customer and wider business, a person that above all values the need for procedure, control, insight and auditability. Working as an integral part of our cash accounting team, the successful candidate will be primarily responsible for supporting our International Online business. Striving for continuous improvements and being a driving force for automation of tasks.

Key Responsibilities

Finance Management

• Support collective responsibility for payments for Next International Online transactions.
• Ownership of international tender reconciliations and providing close insight and management of cashflow.
• Daily reconciliation of international payments received to ensure discrepancies are resolved in a timely manner.

Cost Management and Stakeholder Management

• Ensure costs are accurately accrued each month.
• Follow a proactive approach to engage with Internal and External Stakeholders to bring issues to resolution. 
• Analysis and Reporting
• Provide daily / weekly reporting around key cash KPIs to support cross-functional teams to address any issues and support key business decisions. 
• Support the audit process with any ad hoc queries
• Take a future orientated approach to work, critically analysing processes to spot opportunities for growth, efficiency and automation.

What we are looking for

• A proactive part-qualified accountant CIMA/ACCA/ACA with proven experience/key desire to work and develop in a large fast-paced company.
• The ability to work productively, efficiently and effectively, maintaining attention to detail and quality.
• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to think outside the box.
• Ability to self motivate and show resilience in a challenging, innovative environment with changing priorities.
• Proven ability to plan and prioritise workloads whilst working to strict deadlines.
• Can effectively communicate and collaborate both orally and in writing and have the ability to influence and constructively challenge.
• Strong control skills.
• Exceptional working knowledge of MS Office (esp. MS Excel) suite of products, Google G Suite is desirable.
• SQL/Microsoft SSMS/Databricks is experience is desirable.

About Us

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!

About Some Of Our Benefits

• 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
• Company performance based bonus
• Sharesave scheme
• On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
• 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
• Early VIP access to sale stock
• Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
• Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
• Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
• Free on-site parking
• Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
• Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
• Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
• Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
• Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more

Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change. 

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.

Apply Before 02/09/2025, 03:59 PM

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.