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    Seasalt is a modern Cornish company with an ambitious vision. As a successful omnichannel retailer spanning our website, over 70 shops and 400 wholesale stockists, we’re always challenging ourselves to think creatively, innovate and improve.

    The role

    We’re looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Assistant Management Accountant to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team, working closely with our Management Accountant to support the delivery of the team’s data strategy. If you’re passionate about financial analysis, reporting, and delivering insightful data to drive business decisions, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

    Please note, as part of our Seasalt Connected approach to ways of working, this role will be based flexibly across our Cornwall head office locations (minimum 40% of working week) and remotely within the UK.

    You’ll help us by

    You’ll play a key role in conducting financial analysis and creating tools to enhance business partnering capabilities, financial performance, forecasting, and financial close reporting process within the Financial Accounting team. This includes processing key accruals, prepayments, and other accounting adjustments to maintain the accuracy and integrity of the monthly results. You’ll ensure that critical controls are followed during the month-end process, while also reporting monthly primary statement results for review by the Senior Financial Accounting Manager and Director of Finance.

    You’ll produce key variance analysis (actual vs. budget) and other management information reports to support month end close and reporting, such as retail reports, creditor/stock analysis, and wage reporting. In addition, you will generate KPI information to analyse the financial result and provide commentary on key movements.

    Beyond regular reporting, you will contribute to finance change projects, ensuring these initiatives are delivered on time and meet business requirements.

    The skills you’ll be sharing with the team

    • AAT qualified or a ACCA/CIMA studier (or a desire to study)
    • Comfortable with numbers and an interest in financial insight
    • Strong financial analysis skills with experience within a finance function
    • Knowledge of planning and budgeting cycles
    • Ability to interrogate numbers in order to drive insight from data and inform business decisions
    • Strong Microsoft Excel skills
    • Excellent attention to detail
    • Ability to confidently communicate with key stakeholders across the business
    • Good system knowledge with the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new systems
    • You do not see yourself as a ‘typical accountant’ but a sociable and diligent finance business partner
    • Willingness to learn and develop in a finance professional role

    Why we hope you’ll love working with us

    The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us. From the moment your Seasalt journey begins, it's our pledge to support you by providing dedicated learning and development opportunities that will enhance your day-to-day working life and help you build your skills and knowledge.

    As well as doing everything we can to boost your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:

    • Salary: £25,000 - £29,000 depending on experience(Band 2)
    • 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
    • Attractive 50% employee discount
    • Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
    • Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
    • Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
    • Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
    • Life assurance programme
    • Enhanced family leave policies
    • Flexible working opportunities with our ‘blended’ working approach
    • Learning and Development opportunities including specialist training, coaching opportunities, and professional qualification support
    • Paid volunteering opportunities
    • Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion Network and Culture Crew
    • 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub

    At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles.

    We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives -diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day.