Overview
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End Date Thursday 02 October 2025
Salary Range £43,803 - £48,670
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Job Details
Job Title: Assistant Manager, Retail Transport Financial Reporting and Control - Fixed Term Contract until November 2026
Location: Bristol Harbourside
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Working Pattern: Hybrid work style, involving spending at least two days per week (about 40% of time) at one of our office sites
About This Opportunity
Are you enthusiastic to make a significant impact and drive positive change in our Retail Financial Control & Reporting team? We’re looking for a positive and hardworking person to support our Transport team of ~18 colleagues. The role involves daily financial control activity, month end controls, and supporting change initiatives.
Day To Day Responsibilities
* Active involvement in financial control activity to support Retail Entity and Group Reporting: Take ownership of tasks and deliverables to support timely and controlled Month End close activity. Demonstrate diligence in preparation and review of work, and question inputs/outputs when appropriate.
* Delivery at Pace: Implement processes that break down work to deliver value quickly and frequently. Embrace a problem-solving mindset to explore and challenge existing processes.
* Innovation: Challenge the status quo to improve processes. Embrace a culture of continuous learning. Find opportunities for innovation and technology to improve processes using new technologies; advocate and bring new ideas within a diverse team.
* Governance and Risk: Prompt escalation of risks and issues; support to mitigate impacts. Demonstrate resilience and ownership when issues occur. Question the end-to-end context.
* Collaboration and Communication: Proactive engagement with Group collaborators for seamless integration of financial processes with broader change management initiatives. Opportunity for people management (managing a small team).
What You’ll Need
We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds, and we celebrate diversity in thought and experience. Here’s the minimum we’re looking for in your CV, to be considered for this role.
* Education: Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience in Finance or Accounting, alongside a recognised accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or working towards it.
* Technical skills & experience: Finance experience in a related role (preferably Retail finance); strong technical proficiency in financial software and Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and Oracle.
* Behavioral skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; excellent communication and interpersonal skills; strong attention to detail; proactive and continuous improvement mindset; integrity and confidentiality.
Nice-to-have experience: Power BI, Power Automate, Python, GCP, R, Co-pilot.
Working For Us
We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and creating an environment where everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We offer reasonable adjustments for disabilities, including flexibility in attendance, location and working patterns, and guarantee interviews for certain applicants through the Disability Confident Scheme where applicable.
We offer a wide range of benefits including:
* A generous pension contribution up to 15%
* An annual performance-related bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Lifestyle-adaptable benefits (e.g., discounted shopping)
* 28 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
* Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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