A new opportunity has arisen for two Finance Assistants to join the Pavers Head Office Finance/Accounts Team at Northminster Business Park, York. Both roles are offered on a full-time permanent basis, in a growing business where you are encouraged to develop your skills in a supportive environment. These are key roles within the finance team, both will support the team lead/supervisor, one role will be aligned to the Store and Home Shopping accounts, the other role will support the Purchase Ledger for all non-stock purchases. The roles Finance Assistant – Store and Home Shopping This role involves overseeing the reconciliation of daily Stores and Home Shopping intakes reports against bank deposits, identifying discrepancies and making adjustments, maintaining effective communications with store managers and preparing weekly reconciliation reports. You will manage the bank reconciliations for the Store and Home Shopping accounts, perform investigations on stores’ transactions, perform several journal postings and assisting the period-end and year-end processes. This helps towards ensuring daily and weekly cash flow reporting is updated. Finance Assistant – Purchase Ledger This role will assist to ensure all non-stock purchases made are accurately recorded and paid for in a timely matter. In that process, the team will be the key contact with other departments, liaising with purchase order originators, ensuring goods and services received are adequately matched and invoiced. You will manage third party queries, such as suppliers, contractors and auditors. You will also assist in preparing regular payments, handle remittance advice and disputes/queries. These roles would suit individual’s who have already worked in a similar organisation within the retail sector, or have familiarity with maintaining purchase ledger. We also welcome recent graduates or someone who is looking to get back into the industry. Support towards professional qualifications would be considered once probation periods have been completed successfully. We are looking for colleagues who are self-motivated and can work on their own initiative, able to demonstrate a methodical approach, with excellent written and verbal communication skills. What’s in it for you: Salary Circa £26,000 - dependent on experience. Enrolment into company’s pension scheme. Discretionary Annual Bonus scheme. Generous colleague discount scheme, some of which can be shared with your family and friends! And that’s not all, working for Pavers comes with so much more to enjoy: Free onsite parking at York Head Office. Death In Service Benefit. Holiday Entitlement (Increases with service). Access to RetailTRUST (Wellbeing & Financial Support). Access to the Pavers Foundation: employee-led grant application and charitable giving scheme. Access to wider training and development opportunities through Pavers Academy. Snapshot of your responsibilities: Finance Assistant – Store and Home Shopping Review daily till reports, recorded sales, cash received and payment methods and reconcile against imported reports on Sage and bank receipts. Identify and investigate discrepancies and make necessary adjustments. Post cash sheet batches upon completion of reconciliation. Deal with inquiries from stores and any customer payment disputes. Post occasional manual trading transactions. Manage Home Shopping transactions and reconcile with bank account and post relevant transactions onto Sage. Look after petty cash. Raise one-off sale ledger invoices occasions. Finance Assistant – Purchase Ledger Manage the Purchase Ledger Inbox and clearing emails daily. Checking all non-stocks purchase requisitions and liaising with purchase orders originators. Accurate logging, coding, and checking the posting of invoices on to the Sage 200. Resolving purchase ledge queries. Supplier statement reconciliations. Process all rent invoices relating to stores and updating the rent schedule for month-end purposes. Take care of expenses claims and company credit cards statements reconciliations. Assisting and liaising with stores recording shop queries / discrepancies Assisting with month end procedures. General administration duties, including filing, photocopying, scanning, etc. Bank Statement posting. What will you need: AAT part qualified / Beginner in finance / Someone aiming to resume their finance profession after time off / Recent Finance Graduate wanting their first professional role MS Excel Intermediate user (Essential) High attention to detail when maintaining accurate and detailed financial records (Essential) Ability to prioritise and juggle multiple tasks at once (Essential) Effective communication skills (Essential) Positive attitude with an inquisitive mindset (Essential) Keen to learn and develop (Essential) Experiences within retail sector (Desirable) Sage 200 experience (Desirable) The Company The Pavers story began in York in 1971 when Catherine Paver took out a £200 bank loan (for a sofa she told them) to fund her new business. She had big dreams of changing the world of footwear and a passion to provide comfortable and stylish shoes for all. Starting small, she sold shoes at village halls and homeware parties before opening the first Pavers shop in Scarborough in 1981, when Catherine’s three sons joined the business. One of her sons, Stuart, ran the business as Managing Director for over 40 years, joined by his son Jason in 2016. As of September 2023, Jason Paver is now the Managing Director of Pavers Ltd, with Stuart Paver moving to Chairman, taking the company into the 3rd generation of family run leadership. From these modest beginnings, Pavers Shoes has grown to be a UK leader in today’s footwear industry, with over 180 stores nationwide encompassing our more recently acquired brands including Jones Bootmaker, Herring Shoes, Padders & Van Dal. We remain acquisitive, highly profitable, and are an ever-growing, independent family-run business, employing over 1,900 people. We were delighted to receive recognition as a 3* Employer with ‘World Class’ levels of workplace engagement and the ‘2nd Best Retailer to Work For’ by Best Companies in November 2024. At Pavers, we attribute the talents, passion, and dedication of our colleagues as the reasons for our success. Benefits Holidays that increase with service Company Pension Contribution Wellbeing Assistance through Retail Trust Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay Gym Discounts Multiple Retailer Discounts Documents