Bank Reconciliations Advisor
| Posting date: | 10 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £23,400 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 September 2024 |
| Location: | City Of Manchester, Greater Manchester, M60 0AG |
| Company: | Co-op Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1045825_1725955410 |
Summary
Bank Reconciliations Advisor
£23,400 pro rata plus excellent benefits (Work Level 6C)
Full time 37.5 hours per week
Manchester city centre, in this role you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and 1 day in the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).
We're looking for a Bank Reconciliations Advisor to join the Bank Reconciliations team within our wider Co-op Business Services (CBS) organisation. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You'll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of 'co-operating to build more value for member-owners everyday'.
In this role, you'll keep on top of bank reconciliations, and make sure we are accounting for everything correctly for our clients, customers, and third-party investors. We'll look to you to resolve queries and build relationships with internal and external partners. It's a great opportunity for you to develop your skills as part of a busy team.
What you'll do
- Work within a team of advisers and seniors to review and reconcile multiple bank accounts daily
- Support in the production of period end balance sheet reconciliations, analysing variances and ensuring aged items are resolved
- Support in the production of query reports to partners, chasing up responses and acting on the information provided to resolve unreconciled bank transactions
- Make sure that financial integrity is maintained and that all reconciling items and adjustments are resolved within agreed deadlines
- Respond to queries via email, investigating issues and resolving them in a timely manner
- Assist in the production and review of process documentation and supporting with training
- Train new and existing team members, providing support and guidance
- Provide regular updates to team managers about any outstanding issues, and escalate problems where necessary to discuss resolutions
This role would suit people who have
- Experience working in bank reconciliations
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written
- Good general IT skills with the ability to use programmes in the Microsoft Office Package at a basic level (mainly Excel and Outlook)
- Great problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to work
Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
Building a diverse environment
We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing