Description
Joining Argos as the Finance Manager - Order to Cash/Sales to Settlement offers a unique opportunity to drive process and control excellence in sales-to-settlement activities, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting. As a key player in overseeing outsourced services, collaborating with various departments, and driving continuous improvement initiatives, you will have a significant impact on safeguarding financial accuracy and enhancing operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for ensuring process and control excellence across sales-to-settlement activities, overseeing the integrity of processes connecting sales, takings, and financial reporting. You will interact with multiple stakeholders across Finance, Technology, Retail Operations, and more to resolve issues, improve compliance, and drive changes that safeguard the accuracy and completeness of financial information. Your role will involve:
•Monitoring outsourced services
•Addressing compliance issues
•Managing controls
•Resolving queries and disputes
•Coordinating audits
•Supporting financial plans
•Driving process improvements in collaboration with key stakeholders
Requirements
•Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with demonstrable O2C experience, ideally within retail/FMCG
•Demonstrable experience in finance operations, accounting controls and risk management within high-volume transactional environments
•Proven experience managing outsourced or third-party service providers, using performance measures and service data to drive service improvements
•Evidence of assessing operational or control issues, making risk-based decisions and resolving complex or escalated queries
•Ability to communicate business requirements effectively and translate them into process, control or technology improvements
•Track record of delivering process, control or compliance improvements through collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners
Conditions and Benefits
•You'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work
•Development support promised
•Recognition for colleagues who go the extra mile, and flexible working where possible
•10% discount on shopping online and in-store at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, increased to 15% at points during the year
•Pension scheme and life cover
•Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on company performance
•Annual holiday allowance, with option to buy up to an additional week's holiday
•Private healthcare
•Season ticket loans
•Interest-free car loan of up to £10k
•Cycle to work scheme
•Health cash plans
•Salary advance (access to some pay before pay day)
•Discounts from hundreds of other retailers
•Employee Assistance Programme
•Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave
•Up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave
