Halfords

About Us

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you’re willing to  get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

About the role

As the Group Financial Accounting Assistant, you will be responsible for assisting with external reporting process, providing administration support to the financial reporting team, and where possible providing technical support to the business. The role interacts on a regular basis with Financial Reporting team members, Supply Chain teams and external logistics suppliers and manufacturers. In addition, you'll also play a key role as part of the external audit process.

This is a superb opportunity to join a finance team in a growing listed retail and services business. The right person for the role will have some good base financial reporting and accounting knowledge, an engaging, energetic and proactive style, and be keen to learn and develop within the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Supplier statement reconciliations for major tyre manufacturers.
• Reconcile deliveries into 3PL warehouse vs invoice records.
• Follow up with tyre manufacturers on shortages.
• Completion of balance sheet reconciliations for above process.
• Key contact for external audit process.
• Project work to improve and implement processes around the 3PL tyre service provider.
• Use of internal systems such as SAP/BW, GDP to improve processes.
• Utilise the Group Data Platform and become trained in the new Power BI tool.

Skills & Experience

• Trainee accountant – part qualified
• Great attention to detail
• Technically astute and intellectually curious
• Ability to challenge and drive through change
• Collaborative team worker
• Good IT skills – needs to be competent in using Excel in particular
• A basic knowledge of IFRS accounting standards would be useful
• Ability to quickly build effective working relationships and internal networks