About the Role

At Pets at Home, we’re passionate about pets. But we’re also passionate about the fantastic people we work with. Across the country, our 450 stores provide the support, dedication and compassion that our customers and their pets need. And we’re looking for equally dedicated and compassionate people to join us on our journey to provide the best possible care for pets in the country, and that’s where you come in.

We are seeking a CIMA/ACCA Part Qualified/ Finalist Candidate. By joining the Pets at Home finance team, you will have the opportunity to flourish in your career with guidance from your colleagues as well as further development opportunities.

We are looking for candidates who will go above and beyond ensuring all tasks are complete, and deadlines are met.

Coming from a Finance background, you’ll have gained several years commercial hands-on experience, preferably within a busy Retail Finance environment and be ready to hit the ground running when joining. In practical terms, this may mean you have recently finished a finance apprenticeship program, gathering some great commercial expertise along the way, and now be looking to carve your finance career within a progressive organisation who value true collaboration and encourage individual drive and determination.

You will be joining a team of 9 supportive Colleagues, who will support you on your journey in Pets at Home.

Key Responsibilities – what you’ll be doing

Business Partnering

• Partnering one of our Central support functions at the support office, linking in with the Vet Group to build plans to support the business.
• Periodic rolling reforecast. This involves liaising with directors/departments Heads to produce forecasts on key costs lines.
• Weekly and periodic reporting, in addition to ad hoc reporting and providing support to department Heads as required (including actual vs. budget, reforecast and prior year, with variance analysis and commentary).

Period End

• Involved in the end-to-end period-end process, you will be responsible for several cost lines, which will involve posting journals and calculating accruals & prepayments.
• Input into the delivery of the periodic results to the Retail Finance Director.
• Input into the preparation of the period end board pack, detailing financial performance and KPI’s for the group (distributed to both Executive and Non-executive Directors).
• Maintain balance sheet control through preparation of balance sheet reconciliations
• To provide accurate, relevant, and timely management information to department heads and senior management to monitor the business performance and assist the decision-making process to enable its successful future development.

External Communication

• Required to liaise with our 3rd Party Auditors twice a year, providing them with required information to carry out the audits.

About You – What we want you to bring to the role

• You’ll be hungry about forgoing your career within an award winning, values-led business. Bringing financial expertise and a curious mind, you’ll play a part of progressing our team vision and capabilities
• You will be a part qualified Accountant with minimum of 1-2 years’ experience within a fast-paced finance background.
• You must be highly analytical with a high attention to detail.
• Experience of strong financial control and balance sheet management.
• Strong Excel Skills.
• Strong communication skills are essential to support and manage multiple stakeholders.
• You will have the flexibility to adapt to a fast-changing pressurised commercial environment.
• You will be a strong team player with the ability to work with other teams to build strong collaborative relationships.

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this.

We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you.

At Pets at Home, we stay true to our Value and Behaviours, and if you share these with us, why not apply today, and share with us our vision to become the best pet care platform in the world, looking after our pets, and the people who love them

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