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Management Accountant! Location: Coleshill, Warwickshire Job Type: Full-time (Agile Working Arrangements Available) Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum 10% annual bonus Attention Finance Professionals! Are you ready to take the next step in your finance career? We are currently partnering with a prestigious client in the Southwest Midlands to find a sharp and dedicated Management Accountant. This is a prime opportunity to join a forward-thinking team and play a crucial role in the financial steering of the company. What You'll Do: Engage in detailed financial and commercial analysis to support the regional finance team's goals. Contribute to the accuracy and timeliness of internal and external financial reporting. Prepare and analyse regular management information reports and monthly management accounts. Manage house sale completion statements and journals with precision. Perform balance sheet reconciliations and maintain accurate plot data. We're Looking For Someone With: Progress towards a recognised accountancy qualification. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel. Exceptional analytical, organisational, and IT skills. The ability to communicate complex financial information clearly. Why You'll Love It Here: Agile working options to support your work-life balance. Generous annual leave entitlement up to 33 days, plus bank holidays. Private healthcare access. A robust contributory pension scheme. Life assurance at four times your annual salary. A comprehensive rewards portal offering a variety of benefits. Apply Now: If you're a Management Accountant looking to make a significant impact within a dynamic company, we want to hear from you. Please apply by submitting your CV TODAY detailing your relevant experience and why you're the perfect fit for this role. Join us in shaping the future of finance!
Location Hybrid < 1-2 days in the office/Support Centre on Hams Hall Distribution Park, Coleshill. Why The Works? We don't just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family member's memory. You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories. The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you. Become a Commercial Finance Business Partner Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, this role sits within an existing commercial team of six. In this role, you will develop a good understanding of the key drivers of the business to enable you to effectively deliver insight, challenge, add value and influence strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for building strong relationships and business partnering with senior managers and their teams, providing financial insight to support their commercial decision making. Your Mission Dedicated Business Partner to The Works management team, building partnerships and strong relationships with all senior managers and their teams. Providing financial support to commercial decision making. Delivering analysis and insight that links financial reports to business strategies. Improving the impact, and understanding, of financial reporting on business performance; providing options and scenarios for business decisions Providing effective commercial support to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered. Key leadership role in supporting the budgeting and forecast processes, providing support and challenge for budget holders, high-lighting risks, and opportunities, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. Assisting with the development of new MI reporting, systems, and processes, embracing continuous improvement For areas of responsibility, ownership of the monthly management accounts and reporting to the board. Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart A fully qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA, with commercial business partnering experience, you will be able to demonstrate the following: Motivated and self-sufficient, using initiative to be pro-active. Naturally inquisitive and confident to challenge both accepted assumptions and processes. Collaborative approach with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to liaise with and influence colleagues at all levels. Commercially astute with a strong desire to understand the key levers in the business, and an ability to interpret numbers into meaningful insight, and communicate to the business. Ability to professionally challenge the business to make improvements to operational and financial performance. Experience of budgeting and forecasting processes including reviewing and challenging commercial targets with budget-holders Strong Excel and analytical skills, with attention to detail and able to work at pace under time pressure. Confidence to initiate process improvements and the tenacity to see them through to completion. Strong organisational skills, flexible and able to adapt quickly to deliver a fast turnaround on ad-hoc tasks. ?? 25% Colleague Discount! -Plus, exclusive Double Discount days! ??MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more! ?? Holiday 33 days including bank holidays. ?? Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days ? Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you. ?? Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life' happens! ? Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works! ??24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more! ?? Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs ?? And loads more! Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving. Our Purpose To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled. Our Values We are Crafty We are Caring We are Can-do We Listen. We Care Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what's going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you've ever worked! You'll have opportunity to help give us that direction. Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term). We are open to discussing part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply for this role, please contact and we'll be happy to help! #LIHybrid
Finance Analyst! Location: Coleshill, Warwickshire Job Type: Full-time (Agile Working Arrangements Available) Salary: £30,000 per annum annual bonus Attention Finance Professionals! Are you ready to take the next step in your finance career? We are currently partnering with a prestigious client in the South West Midlands to find a sharp and dedicated Finance Analyst. This is a prime opportunity to join a forward-thinking team and play a crucial role in the financial steering of the company. What You'll Do: Engage in detailed financial and commercial analysis to support the regional finance team's goals. Contribute to the accuracy and timeliness of internal and external financial reporting. Prepare and analyse regular management information reports and monthly management accounts. Manage house sale completion statements and journals with precision. Perform balance sheet reconciliations and maintain accurate plot data. We're Looking For Someone With: Progress towards a recognised accountancy qualification. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel. Exceptional analytical, organisational, and IT skills. The ability to communicate complex financial information clearly. Why You'll Love It Here: Agile working options to support your work-life balance. Generous annual leave entitlement up to 33 days, plus bank holidays. Private healthcare access. A robust contributory pension scheme. Life assurance at four times your annual salary. A comprehensive rewards portal offering a variety of benefits. Apply Now: If you're a finance analyst looking to make a significant impact within a dynamic company, we want to hear from you. Please apply by submitting your CV TODAY detailing your relevant experience and why you're the perfect fit for this role. Join us in shaping the future of finance!
Location Hybrid: 1-2 days in the office/Support Centre on Hams Hall Distribution Park, Coleshill. Why The Works? We don't just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family member's memory. You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories. The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you. Become a Junior Finance Partner Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, this role sits within an existing commercial team of five. In this key role you will develop a good understanding of the key drivers of the business to enable you to effectively deliver insight, challenge, add value and influence strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for building strong relationships and business partnering with senior managers and their teams, providing financial insight to support their commercial decision making. Your Mission Dedicated support to the commercial management teams, building a strong relationship with them and their teams. Providing effective commercial support to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered. Reporting and understanding KPIs. Play a key role in supporting the budgeting and forecasting process. Providing ad-hoc analysis and reporting to the business Ownership of the monthly management accounts for areas of responsibility Represent finance in commercial project working groups. Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart Experience in a retail environment or similar fast paced organisation Experience in using MI tools such as Cognos, TM1, Aptos Experience of budgeting and forecasting processes including reviewing and challenging commercial targets with budget-holders Experience in using Excel. ?? 25% Colleague Discount! -Plus, exclusive Double Discount days! ??MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more! ?? Holiday 33 days including bank holidays. ?? Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days ? Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you. ?? Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life' happens! ? Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works! ??24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more! ?? Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs ?? And loads more! Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving. Our Purpose To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled. Our Values We are Crafty We are Caring We are Can-do We Listen. We Care Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what's going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you've ever worked! You'll have opportunity to help give us that direction. Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term). We are open to discussing part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply for this role, please contact and we'll be happy to help! #LIHybrid
Location Hybrid: 1-2 days in the office/Support Centre on Hams Hall Distribution Park, Coleshill. Why The Works? We don't just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family member's memory. You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories. The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you. Become a Commercial Finance Analyst Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, this role sits within an existing commercial team of five. In this key role you will develop a good understanding of the key drivers of the business to enable you to effectively deliver insight, challenge, add value and influence strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for building strong relationships and business partnering with senior managers and their teams, providing financial insight to support their commercial decision making. Your Mission Dedicated support to the commercial management teams, building a strong relationship with them and their teams. Providing effective commercial support to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered. Reporting and understanding KPIs. Play a key role in supporting the budgeting and forecasting process. Providing ad-hoc analysis and reporting to the business Ownership of the monthly management accounts for areas of responsibility Represent finance in commercial project working groups. Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart Experience in a retail environment or similar fast paced organisation Experience in using MI tools such as Cognos, TM1, Aptos Experience of budgeting and forecasting processes including reviewing and challenging commercial targets with budget-holders Experience in using Excel. Our PERKS really are The Works' ?? 25% Colleague Discount! - Plus, exclusive Double Discount days! ?? MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more! ?? Holiday 33 days including bank holidays. ?? Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days ? Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you. ?? Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life' happens! ? Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works! ?? 24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more! ?? Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs ?? And loads more! Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving. Our Purpose To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled. Our Values We are Crafty We are Caring We are Can-do We Listen. We Care Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what's going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you've ever worked! You'll have opportunity to help give us that direction. Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term). We are open to discussing part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply for this role, please contact and we'll be happy to help! #LIHybrid
Location Hybrid Based at our Support Centre in Coleshill 1-2 days per week This role is a maternity cover position for one year. Why The Works? We don't just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family member's memory. You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories. The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you. Become a Payroll Administrator Reporting into the Payroll Team Leader, you will play an essential role within the People Team. You will be an experienced administrator, ideally with some payroll knowledge but essentially a desire to learn and develop your payroll capability. You are a good communicator that can easily build relationships with internal and external stakeholders and provide an excellent service to our colleagues. You are driven by and able to meet routine and cyclical deadlines. You will be keen to learn and be able to absorb items of payroll legislation relative to the role under the guidance of your more experienced colleagues. Your Mission Processing new starters and leavers in our Payroll and Time & Attendance systems Producing manual pay calculation, where necessary, for changes to hours and pay Applying changes such as P45's, tax codes and bank details Gathering and checking Time & Attendance data; applying appropriate shift allowances Inputting and tracking of all absences, including holiday entitlements and accruals Understanding of current legislation and able to calculate and produce schedules for SSP, SMP, SPP etc Tracking NMW/NLW Processing AOE's, DEA's and Priority Orders 3rd party payments, such as Cycle2Work, Childcare Vouchers and GAYE Pensions administration, deferring new joiners, auto-enrolling colleagues and correctly processing opt-outs Maintaining employee benefits databases, such as Health Assurance, Life Assurance, PMI and SAYE Handling references such as Tenancy/Mortgage and Jury Service Responding to payroll queries received via phone and email in a timely and supportive manner Building relationship with and assisting with queries from, all departments and functions Assisting the Payroll Team Leader with any other ongoing projects Continuously reviewing our processes and suggesting where improvements could be made Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart Administration experience Supporting a busy, high transaction function High level numeracy and communication skills Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, including outlook, teams, word and excel Our PERKS really are The Works' ?? 25% Colleague Discount! - Plus, exclusive Double Discount days! ?? MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more! ?? Holiday 33 days including bank holidays. ?? Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days ? Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you. ?? Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life' happens! ? Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works! ?? 24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more! ?? Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs ?? And loads more! Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving. Our Purpose To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled. Our Values We are Crafty We are Caring We are Can-do We Listen. We Care Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what's going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you've ever worked! You'll have opportunity to help give us that direction. Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term). We are open to discussing part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply for this role, please contact and we'll be happy to help! #LIHybrid
Location Hybrid < 1-2 days in the office/Support Centre on Hams Hall Distribution Park, Coleshill. Why The Works? We don't just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family member's memory. You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories. The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you. Become a Team PA We're looking for an experienced Personal Assistant to work with 4 of our Executive Team Chief People and Retail Officer, Chief Supply Chain and Digital Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. Reporting to EA to CEO to ensure effective leadership team / cross-functional working. You will be accountable for supporting them to maximise their time and energy, enabling them to focus on their priorities aligned with our business strategy. Your Mission Demonstrating awareness of strategic objectives of the organisation and using knowledge to inform actions. Work with EA to CEO to keep directors aware of impending deadlines / manage expectations. Complex diary management Acting as a first point of contact, email management, responding, passing on messages / highlighting for Director's attention Prepare store visits info [pre and post] Travel and accommodation. Maintaining a bring forward system to ensure team requests are responded to timely. Collation and preparation of information for presentations and reports. Organisation and support of meetings (internal and external stakeholders) Maintaining calendar of key dates i.e. long service awards, new stores openings/closures, team birthdays etc Expenses Colleague Facebook group approvals. Reward and recognition emails and cards. Support writing blogs and posts for MyWorks. Support collaborative working between functions. Build relationships with key business stakeholders. Project Management oversight - labour project - engagement survey themes and actions - who do we have worrying about what? Management of maintenance of the trading business calendar. Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart Team Player Agility ability to adapt their working style to the Director's needs. Confident juggling demands from multiple need to be able to prioritise and manage their time cleverly. Work autonomously, using their initiative but will take direction and learn from their director or manager and colleagues. Shows initiative and anticipation of need. Active interest in the company's well-being. Ability to be accessible and friendly. Communication Skills: Clear and effective communication skills to convey information, instructions, and feedback to retail employees at all levels, ensuring understanding and engagement. Adaptability: Ability to adapt training approaches and materials to meet the diverse learning styles, backgrounds, and skill levels of employees. Collaboration: Collaboration with various stakeholders in the retail business, building strong working relationships with each of them. Time Management: Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively, balancing the creation and delivery of training programs with other responsibilities in a retail setting. Our PERKS really are The Works' ?? 25% Colleague Discount! - Plus, exclusive Double Discount days! ?? MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more! ?? Holiday 33 days including bank holidays. ?? Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days ? Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you. ?? Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life' happens! ? Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works! ?? 24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more! ?? Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs ?? And loads more! Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving. Our Purpose To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled. Our Values We are Crafty We are Caring We are Can-do We Listen. We Care Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what's going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you've ever worked! You'll have opportunity to help give us that direction. Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term). We are open to discussing part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply for this role, please contact and we'll be happy to help! #LIHybrid