AddressSavers is a health and beauty retailer with a turnover exceeding £0.5 billion and trading from more than 500 stores across the UK. In 2023, we were award as 'Great place to work' by our amazing colleagues. We have been among the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK for three years running in 2017,2018 & 2019. Savers continues to deliver market-beating sales growth with an impressive store opening schedule. We are part of A.S. Watson, the retail arm of CKHH – a Fortune 500 company. We pride ourselves on being an employer who puts our people & customers at the heart of everything we do.
Outline of role
To support the continuing growth of the company, you will provide accurate and timely reports, insight and analysis for the business to support decision making. With support from the rest of the finance team, we need you to lead and deliver cost savings, accuracy improvements and initiatives within key cost areas. You will need to collaborate with both other finance and also non-finance teams to ensure that any initiatives or cost savings are maximised within the group.
Key Responsibilities
Person Specification
Education and background
Retail environment awareness preferred but not essential
Studying (or intending to study) for an accountancy qualification
Key Responsibilities
- To produce accurate daily, weekly & monthly reporting for the regional, central & property teams and support with the transition of regular reporting to Power BI
- Support Senior Management & operations team with presentations and ad hoc reporting & analysis
- Full accountability for selected cost centre monitoring and control (incl. posting accruals and prepayments)
- To manage and accurately account for store variable costs within the P&L, ranging from property cost lines to variable and store controllable costs. This will involve, controlling and accounting accurately throughout the year.
- Maintaining and developing the relationship with our third parties to ensure efficient management of our account and implement improvements where possible.
- Produce accurate budgeting & forecasts of the key store costs & selected cost centres
- Work with non-finance colleagues to identify and implement cost saving measures across your areas of responsibility
Person Specification
- Strong communication skills
- High attention to detail and enjoy fact-finding
- Structured and logical approach to work
- Good Excel skills and ability and desire to master other technical skills quickly
- Able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Basic Power BI familiarity would be a plus
Education and background
Retail environment awareness preferred but not essential
Studying (or intending to study) for an accountancy qualification
