# Accountant - Convenience Financial Control

**Company**: Morrisons
**Location**: Bradford, West Yorkshire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a proactive Accountant with analytical and problem-solving skills to join our team specialising in convenience stock financial control.

The successful candidate will primarily be responsible for maintaining robust financial controls around convenience stock, including balance sheet reconciliations and managing provisions, while working closely with finance and operational business partners to communicate and interrogate stock positions and movements.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Financial Control & Stock Accounting**

- Perform timely and accurate monthly balance sheet reconciliations for convenience stock accounts, ensuring all variances and aged items are fully investigated and resolved.

- Manage and calculate stock provisions (e.g., shrinkage and obsolescence) to reflect accurate financial positions in accordance with accounting standards.

**Business Understanding**

- Work collaboratively with commercial and supply chain finance business partners to help them understand their convenience stock position, movements, and key risk areas.

- 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**

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

**Requirements**

- 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.

**Benefits**

- 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

- 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

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## Skills

### Required
- accounting
- financial analysis
- problem-solving
- communication

### Nice to have
- Excel
- SAP

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