Salary: £26k-£30k
Beyond Retail is an award-winning multi-website online retailer offering bathroom, kitchen and heating products to retail and trade customers. Over 8 million people visit our websites annually, benefiting from keen pricing, design-led products, top-class service and continuous investment in technology.
We’re just over 14 years old, and in that time, we’ve accelerated from zero to £50m/year revenue, won local and national awards, and grown to 140-plus people. Our three websites—Drench, Tap Warehouse, and Only Radiators—are growing from strength to strength, and we’re looking for a Junior Financial Accountant to join the team for 12 months of maternity cover.
Alongside collating financial data, you will work with the Management Accountants to gain knowledge and understanding of how to analyse our finance data and ultimately start building your own reports to support our team and the business in key decision-making.
What you will be doing:
Prepare and post Accruals and prepayment journals
- Working closely with the Purchase Ledger team to have a full understanding of actual invoices received & posted
Assist in the preparation of month end & year-end schedules:
- Track monthly invoices, accruals and prepayment for key costs
- Compare to budget and/or forecast
- Nominal code reconciliations
- Ensure the accuracy of postings
- Build a full understanding of the costs in the month
- Identify anomalies, discrepancies or areas of concern
Post payroll journal
Update / Maintain Cashflow System:
- Ensure historic data is complete and balances to bank account(s)
- Categorisation of transactions not done by the system
- Weekly Import of detailed batch payments
- Review and report any anomalies
Assist with Balance Sheet reconciliations: Working alongside the Management Accountants to maintain, reconcile and have ownership of some of the current asset and liability codes on the balance sheet
Update and maintain the Fixed Asset Register
- Add new capital expenditure items to register ensuring correct category is selected
- Update register for disposed items
- Check/maintain a register for accuracy
- Assist in preparing a new register for each new financial year
Assist with budget and re-forecasting process:
- Collate data to be used in budgets and re-forecasting
- Help prepare the models used for the annual budget
Assist with VAT reconciliations: Working alongside the Management Accountants to build the VAT report and gain an understanding of the different VAT codes and meaning
- Run VAT reporting in the accounting software
- Validate results
- Other ad hoc tasks as may be requested
Skills you will need:
- Experience working within a Finance function for at least 1-2 years with exposure to Management Accounting a plus.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of intermediate financial accounting
- Knowledge of excel and Google Sheets & formulas essential
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Attention to detail
- A flexible approach to tasks and workload
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Understanding of Brightpearl an advantage
- Familiarity using accounting journals essential
What we can offer you:
- Flexible working hours — we work 40 hours per week, typically starting and finishing between 8 am and 6:30 pm Monday to Friday
- Generous annual leave
- All the tech you need
- A fantastic office, or flexibility to work at home
- A company-wide commitment to learning and development
- Team and company-wide social events
- A friendly, customer-focused environment built on teamwork, collaboration, ownership, and transparency
- Headspace subscription
- £500 refer-a-friend recruitment reward
- Buy & Sell Holiday
- Paid time off for volunteering
- No corporate dress code
- Paid Sick Leave
- Eye care vouchers
- Discounts for staff, friends and family
Our Values
Our ten core values shape everything we do. These inform the foundations of our relationships with customers and each other but also shape how we measure and reward the performance of our colleagues. Simply put, success is not about who you are or how loud you shout but about the impact you make and what you do. We encourage doing rather than dreaming – if you have an idea, speak up, and we will listen! Everyone’s opinion matters, and any suggestions are welcome.
Our Diversity
We aim to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included, and have their talents nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to our vision and goals.
Work is not a place; it is what you do…
The future of work is about flexibility. Not everyone does their best work from an office and wants to work from home exclusively. Our employees can work flexibly from home or in our office.
If you would like further information on this position before applying, please get in touch. Otherwise, please send in your CV for consideration.