What’s the role about?
We’re looking for an organised and detail-focused Accounts Assistant to join our Cash and Banking team within Finance. In this role, you’ll provide essential administrative and transactional support, helping to maintain accurate financial records and ensure key banking, reconciliation, invoice and credit control processes are completed correctly and on time.
Working closely with colleagues across Finance, Retail Operations, FP&A and external partners, you’ll help support the accuracy, compliance and smooth running of company accounts in line with internal policies and regulations.
Who you are
- A highly organised and detail-oriented individual with an interest in finance, accounting and transactional processes.
- Confident working with numbers, financial records and accounting systems, with a strong focus on accuracy and compliance.
- Proactive and solutions-focused, with the ability to investigate discrepancies, resolve issues and follow through on actions in a timely manner.
- Able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines across reconciliations, invoice processing, reporting and month-end activity.
- A clear communicator who can build effective working relationships with internal teams and external providers.
- Reliable and accountable, with a methodical approach to administration and the confidence to take ownership of recurring tasks.
- Comfortable working collaboratively as part of a busy Finance team, while using your own initiative to support day-to-day operations.
What you’ll be doing
- Managing end-to-end bank reconciliations across multiple accounts, ensuring transactions are accurately recorded, reconciled and posted to the ledgers.
- Completing bank reconciliations in a timely manner and providing clear commentary on cash discrepancies each week.
- Supporting Retail Operations with cash and banking activity, discrepancy reporting and efficient cash collection processes.
- Providing daily cash balance reporting to support FP&A with cashflow reporting requirements.
- Posting concession partner invoices, supporting invoice automation through Continia and reviewing concession control accounts each week.
- Setting up corporate customers, raising and distributing invoices, reviewing aged debtors and proactively chasing outstanding debt.
- Preparing balance sheet reconciliations for month-end and year-end close, including branch sales, concession control accounts and bank accounts.
- Investigating balance discrepancies, resolving issues in line with deadlines and ensuring write-offs are actioned with appropriate commentary.
What we’ll do for you
- Competitive salary and company bonus.
- Up to 65% employee discount.
- Access to exclusive sample sales.
- Health and wellbeing services.
- Medicash health support plan.
- Workplace pension contributions.
- Enhanced parental leave policies.
- Electric Vehicle scheme via Octopus Energy.
- Cycle to Work programme.
- Season ticket travel loan.
- Plus further workplace benefits.
If you want to start your story at Reiss as our Accounts Assistant, don’t miss out - apply now!
At Reiss, it’s not just what we do - it’s how we do it that sets us apart. Creativity drives us forward, but it’s our shared behaviours that underpin our success. We look for individuals who embody these behaviours and bring them to life everyday:
Ambition | Accountability | Courage | Commitment | Focus | Resilience
#WeAreReiss
We recognise the importance and power of diversity within our business and, as such, we ensure that our people processes are fair, transparent and promote equality of opportunity for all candidates.
It is our pledge that candidates will not be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, race, colour, ethnic background, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, religious or similar belief. Every individual will be treated with respect.
We know that some people won’t apply for a role unless they feel they meet all of the requirements listed. We want you to know that finding people who will add to our inspirational culture and have a learning mindset is incredibly important to us. Even if you feel you don’t tick all the boxes, we’d still like to hear from you.
Skills Required
- Organised and detail-oriented
- Confident working with numbers, financial records and accounting systems
- Manage end-to-end bank reconciliations across multiple accounts
- Experience posting invoices, setting up corporate customers and credit control (reviewing aged debtors, chasing outstanding debt)
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations for month-end and year-end close
- Investigate and resolve balance discrepancies and action write-offs with appropriate commentary
- Proactive, solutions-focused with ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
- Support invoice automation through Continia
- Clear communicator able to build effective working relationships with internal teams and external providers
What We Do
Since its creation in 1971, Reiss has established a design philosophy centred on creating modern womenswear, menswear, accessories, and childrenswear that transcends time and trends. Today, we operate as a modern fashion house, offering attainable luxury collections of unwavering elegance. Our expert creative Product teams in our Head Office and Stores, work tirelessly to dress our customers in reliable Reiss style - supported by the exceptional planning and execution of our support functions. From Logistics to IT, Finance to Marketing, every team member is dedicated to ensuring uncompromised precision, quality, service and ethics. Our people are what make our business great. We embrace every person’s individuality and build market-leading teams across Head Office and Retail globally. We nurture ambition, curiosity, creativity and authenticity. A diverse community with two purposes: the precision of our craftsmanship and dedication to our customers.
