Why join us
Joining Argos as the Finance Manager - Order to Cash/Sales to Settlement offers a unique opportunity to drive process and control excellence in sales-to-settlement activities, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting. As a key player in overseeing outsourced services, collaborating with various departments, and driving continuous improvement initiatives, you will have a significant impact on safeguarding financial accuracy and enhancing operational efficiency. By joining our team, you will be part of a dynamic environment that values collaboration, innovation, and professional growth, empowering you to make a tangible difference in shaping the financial landscape of a leading retail organisation.
What you'll do
You will be responsible for ensuring process and control excellence across sales-to-settlement activities, overseeing the integrity of processes connecting sales, takings, and financial reporting. You will interact with multiple stakeholders across Finance, Technology, Retail Operations, and more to resolve issues, improve compliance, and drive changes that safeguard the accuracy and completeness of financial information. Your role will involve monitoring outsourced services, addressing compliance issues, managing controls, resolving queries and disputes, coordinating audits, supporting financial plans, and driving process improvements in collaboration with key stakeholders. Collaborate with key stakeholders to deliver improvements, enhance compliance, and protect the accuracy of financial information. Your strategic mindset, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering results make you a valuable asset in driving operational efficiency and financial integrity within the organisation.
Who you are
You are a seasoned finance professional with a strong background in finance operations, accounting controls, and risk management within high-volume transactional processes. Your expertise in overseeing outsourced services, resolving complex queries, and driving continuous improvement enables you to ensure process and control excellence across sales-to-settlement activities. With clear communication skills and the ability to build effective partnerships, you collaborate with key stakeholders to deliver improvements, enhance compliance, and protect the accuracy of financial information. Your strategic mindset, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering results make you a valuable asset in driving operational efficiency and financial integrity within the organisation.
Essential Criteria
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with demonstrable O2C experience, ideally within retail/FMCG
- Demonstrable experience in finance operations, accounting controls and risk management within high-volume transactional environments
- Proven experience managing outsourced or third-party service providers, using performance measures and service data to drive service improvements
- Evidence of assessing operational or control issues, making risk-based decisions and resolving complex or escalated queries
- Ability to communicate business requirements effectively and translate them into process, control or technology improvements
- Track record of delivering process, control or compliance improvements through collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners
Benefits
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you'll be welcomed whatever 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.
- Colleague discount – 10% on shopping online and in store at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, with discount raised to 15% at points during the year
- Health and life cover and pensions scheme
- Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform
- Annual holiday allowance, and the chance to buy up to an additional week's holiday
- Private healthcare
- Season ticket loan
- Interest free car loan of up to £10k
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health cash plan
- Salary advance (access to some of your pay before pay day)
- Access to a wide range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave
- Up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave
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