Finance manager in order to cash

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.

• 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.
• Your role will involve addressing compliance issues.
• Your role will involve managing controls.
• Your role will involve resolving queries and disputes.
• Your role will involve coordinating audits.
• Your role will involve supporting financial plans.
• Your role will involve driving process improvements in collaboration with key stakeholders.

• 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

• you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work.
• 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.
• you'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits.
• you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year.
• We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover.
• You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
• You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare.
• We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
• And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.
• we give up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.