Financial Accountant - Gross Margin Accounting

We are seeking a Financial Accountant - Gross Margin Accounting to join our Finance team at Argos. As a Financial Accountant, you will play a critical role in bringing the numbers behind our fast-moving retail business to life. You will partner with commercial finance and property colleagues, collaborate with our Accenture service team, and provide clear insight to Finance Leadership.

The successful candidate will take ownership of consolidating period-end results for Sales and Margin adjustments, ensuring outputs are complete, accurate, supported by evidence, and delivered to deadline. You will investigate variances against the Latest view and budget, explain the key drivers, and help identify risks and opportunities that need to be reflected in future forecasts.

Key responsibilities include:

• Overseeing period-end activities completed by Accenture
• Reviewing margin, sales, and property cost balance sheets
• Maintaining reconciliations for complex accounts and resolving outstanding items
• Working with commercial finance teams to prepare Latest views and budgets
• Supporting presentations to Finance Leadership
• Challenging expenditure and processes where appropriate
• Contributing to half-year and year-end audit activity

To be considered for this role, you will need:

• A completed ACA, ACCA, or CIMA accountancy qualification
• Demonstrable experience of period-end accounting, including consolidation, reconciliations, and balance sheet review
• Proven experience analyzing actual financial performance against forecast or budget and explaining material variances to stakeholders
• Demonstrable ability to use Excel to consolidate and analyze large financial datasets and produce accurate reporting outputs
• Proven experience delivering financial outputs to fixed reporting deadlines while coordinating inputs from internal teams or an external service provider

We offer a competitive salary plus benefits, including a pension scheme, life cover, and a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary. You will also receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. Other benefits include season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance, and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.