About the Role
Joining our team at Argos as a Finance Manager - P2P means becoming a crucial player in ensuring process and control excellence throughout the end-to-end purchase to pay cycle. Through overseeing outsourced service delivery, governance, and financial controls, you will have the opportunity to drive accurate and efficient transaction processing while upholding high standards of compliance.
Responsibilities
You will be accountable for ensuring process and control excellence throughout the purchase to pay cycle, overseeing supplier master data, invoicing, expense processing, payments, reconciliations, and payroll. You will monitor outsourced service delivery, governance, and financial controls to ensure accurate and efficient processing of transactions in adherence to agreed standards. Your responsibilities will include managing compliance, resolving queries or disputes, driving process and control improvements, coordinating audit requirements, and supporting the development of financial plans and budgets. By collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, you will play a critical role in enhancing operational efficiency, risk management, and financial performance within the organisation.
Requirements
You are a seasoned professional with a strong background in end-to-end purchase to pay operations, accounting controls, and managing outsourced service delivery. Your ability to assess issues, make informed decisions, and drive process improvements while ensuring financial controls and compliance are paramount. Your clear communication skills, collaborative approach, and continuous improvement mindset enable you to build effective partnerships across various teams and deliver exceptional results in a dynamic and high-volume transactional environment.
•Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
•Demonstrable experience managing or overseeing end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) operations, including accounting controls and risk management within high-volume transactional environments – ideally retail/FMCG
•Proven experience managing outsourced or third-party service providers, using service performance measures and operational insight to drive improvements in delivery and outcomes
•Ability to assess risks, make evidence-based decisions and resolve complex operational or process issues, including escalated queries
•Demonstrable experience implementing process, control or technology improvements that enhance compliance, operational efficiency or customer outcomes
Benefits
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there's always the chance to try something new — whether that's as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working.
When you join our team, we'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits:
•Colleague discount: 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, regularly increased to 15% at points during the year
•Pensions scheme and life cover
•Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on performance
•Annual holiday allowance, with the 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 some of your pay before pay day)
•Access to discounts from hundreds of other retailers
•Employee Assistance Programme
•Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave
