Accounts Assistant - Reporting
Home Bargains
Home BargainsLiverpool, L11 0JAView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Pay
£32,800/yr
Contract
Permanent
Hours
38 hrs/week · Full-time
Closing date
29 October 2026
6 days leftJob description
We are looking for a Reporting Accounts Assistant to join our Finance team, supporting the day-to-day finance processes across the Group.
Working closely with the Financial Accountant and wider team, you will process transactions, maintain accurate financial records and complete reconciliations, helping to ensure deadlines are met and financial information is reliable.
This role would suit someone with experience in transactional finance, strong attention to detail and the ability to manage a varied workload. You will work with colleagues across the business and external suppliers to resolve queries and keep finance processes running smoothly.
- Process daily bank statements and complete banking administration across Group entities, ensuring transactions are recorded accurately and promptly.
- Prepare and process supplier and other payments in line with authorisation procedures and agreed timetables.
- Process sales and income, ensuring receipts are correctly recorded and allocated.
- Administer employee expenses, checking claims against supporting documentation and company policy.
- Manage petty cash, maintaining accurate records and appropriate financial controls.
- Complete bank and other transactional reconciliations, investigating discrepancies and resolving them promptly.
- Support month-end processing, ensuring tasks are completed within agreed deadlines.
- Prepare and check transactional information to support VAT returns, ready for review and sign-off.
- Provide accurate information to support the Financial Accountant with wider tax compliance.
- Maintain complete, accurate and well-organised finance records and supporting documentation.
- Assist with finance system administration, including maintaining standing data and supporting system updates.
- Respond to routine finance queries from stores, Group entities, suppliers and colleagues.
- Provide general administrative support and assist with additional tasks across the wider Finance team.
- Experience working in transactional finance.
- Working knowledge of financial controls, reconciliations and banking processes.
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills, with strong attention to detail.
- Strong Excel skills.
- Ability to organise your workload, meet deadlines and manage competing priorities.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues and external contacts.
- An AAT qualification, or current study towards one, would be an advantage.
Salary & Hours
- £32,800 per annum
- 37.50 hours per week
- Based at our Liverpool Head Office
- Contributable company pension scheme
- 10% store discount at all our retail stores
- Death in Service Benefit
- Long service recognition scheme
- MyHB colleague benefits platform with access to:
- Discounts UK wide on retail, leisure, hospitality venues
- Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 confidential counselling and advice line
- Low-cost voluntary insured health cash plans and cancer cover
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
Home Bargains
First seen
15 October 2026
Last checked
24 October 2026
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About the employer
Retailer
This listing was structured from Home Bargains. Vacancy details and the application process remain the responsibility of the original source.
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