This business is growing – at a rate of knots. With 60 new stores this year we’re really bucking the trend in retail. This growth means we’re busy – super busy. And with that, we’re growing our teams and looking for great talent join us.

We’re on the lookout for a driven Finance Assistant just like you to join our ever-expanding team. If you’re looking for a role that will give you a strong grounding in the Finance department of a fast-growing retail business and kick-start your Finance career, then this is the one for you! 

What you’ll be doing 

From processing our invoices to reconciling sales data from our stores you’ll get a well-rounded understanding of our business. You’ll have a clear area of responsibility, with the autonomy to problem solve, identify queries and improve the process.

• Processing invoices

• Reconciling store sales

• Processing credit card statements

• Invoicing customers

• Reconciling bank accounts

What you’ll bring 

This role is incredibly busy so you’ll need to be a dab hand at prioritising and working under pressure. We don't need you to be a finance whizz, we just need personality, energy and someone who's looking for a career in Finance.

Essential:

• Great interpersonal skills, you’ll be able to build and maintain excellent relationships
• Motivated, ambitious and excited to start a career in finance
• Numerate – Maths GSCE or equivalent
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel – able to create spreadsheets, use formulas and functions such as v lookups, conditional formatting, text to columns, pivot tables, etc.
• Proven experience of attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure

Great, but not essential as training will be given:

• Prior experience in a high-volume and fast-paced environment 
• Experience using Sage X3
• AAT

What we’ll give to you 

At Toolstation we’re proud to offer great career development opportunities to our colleagues, with a strong culture of recognising and supporting talent and promoting colleagues from within. You’ll be challenged in your role and our values are high, but we’re here to support you and ensure your success with us. 

As part of the Travis Perkins group plc, Toolstation are able to offer great benefits to our employees; including colleague pension, childcare vouchers, competitive rates of pay, discount on products across the Travis Perkins Group, company share save schemes and more!