Finance Assistant - Property

The Range; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Long service awards

Employee discount

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

The Range is seeking an experienced Finance Assistant to join the Property finance team at our Head Office in Plymouth. You will oversee cost centres, process invoices, and support budgeting and forecasting to ensure timely, accurate reporting.

Reporting to the Property Overheads Manager, you will contribute to month-end tasks, variance analysis, and accounting close cycles for the property portfolio, while maintaining strong internal controls and data integrity.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and analytical skills.
• High level of accuracy and organisational skills.
• IT literate with intermediate/advanced Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of a selection of cost centres & balance sheet codes
• Posting and evidencing monthly accruals, prepayments and other journals as required
• Analysing costs versus budgets and communicating key variances
• Processing of Property & utility invoices using our data capture approval system
• Monthly business rates reconciliation
• Quarterly/monthly rents payment preparation
• Fixed Asset review and transactional postings to include depreciation
• CIS preparation
• Supporting budgeting and reforecasting
• Key role in Month end and year end deadlines
• Adhoc tasks as and when required

Skills

Communication

Analytical

Accuracy

Excel skills

Education

AAT or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Job description

Finance Assistant - Property

We are a Sunday Times Top Track 100 company and one of the UK 's fastest growing privately owned companies. The Range has grown enormously since its inception in 1989, and now has over 200 stores nationwide. People are at the heart of our retail concept, and we want to invest in our staff and make the future extraordinary. We are looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to join the finance team of a large, successful retail business based at their Head Office in Plymouth. Reporting to the Property Overheads Manager and as part of the Overheads team, you will be responsible for overseeing several cost centres, ensuring that expenditure is recorded accurately and on a timely basis.

About the Role

Day to day responsibilities will include processing of expenditure invoices via our data capture system to ensure payment deadlines are met, review of sensitive nominal codes, identifying CAPEX, prepayments and accruals. Analysing costs against budgets and reporting key variances to the Finance Manager team. Assisting in budgeting and reforecasting as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of a selection of cost centres & balance sheet codes
• Posting and evidencing monthly accruals, prepayments and other journals as required
• Analysing costs versus budgets and communicating key variances
• Processing of Property & utility invoices using our data capture approval system
• Monthly business rates reconciliation
• Quarterly/monthly rents payment preparation
• Fixed Asset review and transactional postings to include depreciation
• CIS preparation
• Supporting budgeting and reforecasting
• key role in Month end and year end deadlines
• adhoc tasks as and when required

Person Specification

• Financial qualification (AAT or equivalent) preferred
• Excellent communication and analytical skills
• High level of accuracy / organisational skills
• IT literate with intermediate / advanced Excel skills

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Pension
• Long service awards
• Employee discount
• Cycle to work scheme

Position: Permanent, Full-time

Hours: Monday – Friday, 08:45am – 17:30pm.

Location: Plymouth, Devon