Finance Analyst - Sales to Cash
Marks & Spencer · Manchester
Your key accountabilities will include:
Own key financial control and reconciliation activities, ensuring transactions are accurate, complete and in line with agreed policies and procedures.
Prepare and maintain journals, and other financial adjustments, making sure supporting documentation is clear and audit-ready.
Complete balance sheet reconciliations, investigate variances and resolve aged or unreconciled items with clear commentary and evidence.
Support month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activity, calling out risks or issues early and helping deadlines stay on track.
Work with finance and non-finance business partners to resolve issues, improve processes and contribute to projects, change activity and continuous improvement.
Perks & benefits
Skills required
Your skills and experience will include:
Part qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
Demonstrable experience working in a finance role, with strong exposure to reconciliations, financial controls, month-end processes and stakeholder management.
Strong reconciliation skills, with confidence investigating variances across systems and data sources such as SAP, BW/CATS, BlackLine, Power BI and external acquirer portals.
A good understanding of journals, controls, month-end close and audit evidence within a finance operations environment.
Confidence working with high-volume transactional data, analysing information and drawing clear conclusions from incomplete or inconsistent sources.
Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across Finance, Tech, Master Data, AR, y commercial teams, controls and external providers.
An organised, detail-focused approach, with strong written communication skills and intermediate to advanced Excel capability; experience with SAP, BW, BlackLine, Power BI would be beneficial.
Qualifications required
Strong education background including degree
At least 2 years relevant work experience
Training you'll get
Accounting and Taxation Professional – Level 7 ACCA/ACA/CIMA Qualification
Take the next step towards becoming a fully qualified accountant with a globally recognised qualification.
The qualification is internationally recognised and highly respected across accountancy, taxation, finance and business. It is ideal for individuals looking to progress their career, become a chartered accountant, or develop their expertise within an accountancy, audit, tax or finance environment.
Upon successful completion of the required examinations, practical experience and institute membership requirements, you'll be able to progress towards becoming a qualified accountant, opening up a wide range of opportunities across accountancy, audit, taxation, financial management and business.
Please note: This is a commercially funded qualification and is not an apprenticeship programme.
The essentials
Hours, commitment and the dates that matter.
Training provider
Delivers the training for this role and manages your application.
