In 1979, Sir Michael Hill and his wife Christine opened their first jewellery store with a simple yet ground-breaking vision: to make fine jewellery accessible to everybody. 40 plus years later, we remain committed to creating quality jewellery for our customers to cherish for a lifetime. From 1979 through today and into our future, one value underpins all that we do: We’re for love.

An opportunity exists for an experienced Banking and Accounts Receivable Team Lead to join our Finance team. Reporting into the Shared Services Manager, this role is responsible for overseeing our Banking and Accounts Receivable teams. Working from our state of the art building based in Cannon Hill, we offer complimentary parking in addition to light open plan offices which encourages collaborative ideas and thinking.

As well as providing management and workload assistance to each team, this broad and challenging role also includes the following specific responsibilities across the two teams.

Accounts Receivable

• Outstanding ledger reporting to internal stakeholders.
• Agreeing payment plan terms and rates with external payment plan providers and internal stakeholders.
• Reconciling the receivables ledger balances.
• Raising general ledger journals as part of the month end process.
• Ensuring new payment plans are maintained in the ERP system.
• Finance SME contribution for new system implementations or improvements 

Banking

• Administrator duties for all bank & credit providers.
• Ensuring bank accounts across the retail and corporate sectors are reconciled monthly.
• Review and post journals raised by the banking team.
• Ensure corporate credit cards are processed and reconciled monthly.
• Ensure the petty cash system (Weel) used by stores is reconciled monthly.
• Overseeing gift cards administration, both for Michael Hill gift cards external combination cards sold at other retailers.
• Finance SME contribution for new system implementations or improvements.
• Deposit collection management.

About You

We are looking for someone with:

• Previous leadership experience in a similar role (+5 yrs).
• ERP system experience (Microsoft Dynamics 365 or similar preferred).
• Intermediate to advanced excel skills.
• Ability to build, lead and develop a high performing team.
• Ability to work with large amounts of data with a high attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, building relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work under pressure and organise work priorities to meet deadlines.

In return we offer: 

• Exposure to international accounting, tax and retail practices
• Competitive salary and great employee purchasing privileges
• A key contributor to an internationally expanding retail business
• Flat organisation structure with accountability