Financial Accountant – Fixed Assets, Tech & Lease Accounting Argos

Location: London, Coventry or Manchester Store Support Centre & Home – colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.

About the team

The Finance team supports accurate and timely accounting across Argos fixed assets, technology costs and leases. Working with Finance, Technology, Property, Procurement, Tax and audit colleagues, the team maintains the records, systems and data behind capital expenditure, depreciation, technology-related costs and IFRS 16 lease balances. This is an opportunity to build specialist accounting expertise while helping simplify, standardise and automate important reporting processes.

More about the role

As Financial Accountant – Fixed Assets, Tech & Lease Accounting, you will complete period-end accounting activities across fixed assets, technology costs and leases. You will prepare journals, reconciliations and reporting schedules, investigate variances and resolve reconciling items, ensuring additions, transfers, depreciation, disposals, technology expenditure and lease movements are recorded in line with policy and applicable accounting standards.

Day to day, you will maintain fixed asset and lease records, administer non-property lease data and complete IFRS 16 entries and reconciliations. You will support periodic, interim and year-end reporting, budgets and forecasts, statutory accounts, impairment reviews and audit requests. You will also work with stakeholders to improve data quality and identify opportunities to make processes more accurate, efficient and automated.

More about you

You will be a qualified or part-qualified accountant, or actively working towards an accounting qualification, with practical knowledge of financial accounting, reconciliations and period-end processes. You will understand fixed assets, capital expenditure, technology costs or lease accounting, including IFRS 16 and the treatment of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets.

You will be able to maintain detailed accounting records, investigate variances and use judgement to resolve or escalate complex matters. Strong Excel capability, clear communication and an organised approach to demanding deadlines will support your delivery. Experience of Oracle Financials or lease-accounting systems would be beneficial but is not essential.

Essential criteria

• A recognised accounting qualification, part-qualification, or active study towards an accounting qualification.
• Demonstrable experience of financial accounting, balance-sheet reconciliations and period-end journals or reporting activities.
• Practical understanding of fixed assets, capital expenditure, technology cost or lease accounting, including IFRS 16 or relevant asset-accounting requirements.
• Evidence of maintaining detailed accounting records, investigating variances and resolving or escalating reconciling items.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including experience of managing, analysing and reconciling detailed financial information.

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Responsibilities

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.

Qualifications

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. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).