Accountant - Convenience

Due to a recent acquisition we're recruiting for an Accountant – Convenience who will report to one of our Finance Managers.

You'll be responsible for the support and delivery of company-wide transactions and processes supporting the overall strategic objectives. To deliver financial and business performance, ensuring that your thinking is Customer first in all aspects of your role, improving processes and outputs through simplifying tasks.

Key responsibilities include:

• Identify financial risks and opportunities for departments so that managers across the business can respond to them in a timely manner.
• Retain a customer focus through daily routines.  
• Participate in projects based on providing expertise and support for improving business processes and procedures.
• Develop and maintain relationships with stores and internal stakeholders, to understand and meet their needs.
• Consult with managers across the business to understand requirements and identify opportunities to speed up and simplify.
• Provide variance analysis and trending techniques to measure performance against budget, forecasts and business costs.
• Provide periodic forecasts to enable managers across the business to understand the implications of current spend behaviours on the full year.

We're looking for a professional qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA) or equivalent knowledge of financial accounting, purchasing and management systems.  

For this role we're looking for someone who has:

• A 'Can do' approach
• An ability to deliver in a complex, fast paced environment
• Excellent analytical thinking and numerical skills
• Excellent Microsoft Excel or Google sheet skills
• Good verbal communication skills, ability to articulate financial data in a clear and transparent way
• Resilience and ability to adapt in an ever changing environment
• Attention to detail
• Ownership of results
• The confidence and ability to challenge non finance stakeholders to deliver the right-end results

 We're Foodmakers and Shopkeepers and together, we make Morrisons. We're the only UK retailer with our own manufacturing business spread across 18 sites, not to mention nearly 500 stores, we've lots of opportunities for you to play your part. So, whether you want to make the freshest food, sell it or join us in our head office, we'd love to meet you.

As part of our Total rewards package we offer:

• 15% colleague discount in store and online, plus an additional 10% discount card for friends/family members
• Annual bonus scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement 
• Four day working week* with flexible working hours
• Enhanced company pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Perks with over 850 retailers through 'my morri'