Accountant - Convenience Financial Control

More about the role

We are looking for a proactive Accountant with an analytical and problem solving mindset to join our team and specialise in convenience stock financial control. In this role, you'll primarily be responsible for maintaining robust financial controls around convenience stock, including balance sheet reconciliations and managing provisions, whilst working closely with finance and operational business partners to communicate and interrogate stock positions and movements.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Control & Stock Accounting

• Balance Sheet Reconciliations: Perform timely and accurate monthly balance sheet reconciliations for convenience stock accounts, ensuring all variances and aged items are fully investigated and resolved.
• Provisions & Valuations: Manage and calculate stock provisions (e.g shrinkage, and obsolescence) to reflect accurate financial positions in accordance with accounting standards.

Business Understanding

• Teamwork: Work collaboratively with commercial and supply chain finance business partners to help them understand their convenience stock position, movements, and key risk areas.
• Systems & Operations Integration: Develop an end-to-end understanding of how operational convenience processes and logistics flow into core financial systems, driving improvements in data accuracy and system integration.

Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Control Framework: Maintain and strengthen internal controls around stock management, offering insight and actionable recommendations to support operational efficiencies and reduce stock loss.

More about you
A qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with strong analytical and commercial skills.

• Comfortable working with large data sets and financial systems (experience with Excel and SAP or similar systems is a plus).
• Curious and proactive, with the confidence to question and explore the story behind the numbers.
• Able to work independently while building strong relationships with both finance and non-finance colleagues.
• Detail-oriented and organised, with a focus on delivering accurate and actionable insight.

More about our perks

We value your hard work and commitment, and in return, we provide:

• Generous holiday entitlement
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 15% discount in our supermarkets and convenience stores from the day you join us
• Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
• Genuine career progression and development opportunities - read more about our Leadership School here
• Su life assurance
• Healthcare / Wellbeing benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• 'MyPerks' with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more
• Optional payroll charity donations
• A range of family-friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

Alive with activity, our modern Head Office is home to our corporate teams that make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you'll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, Morrisons Daily and a subsidised restaurant. We are within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - and we even have free parking!

At our Head Office you will expect to find supplier showcases, charity fundraising and celebrations all year round for the events that mean the most to our colleagues.

There's more to our business as it's fast paced and ever changing, as such we've got lots of fresh opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We'd love to meet you!