JD Sports Careers – Ledger Assistant

Additional Information:

Responsible to: Resale Team Leader

Department: Finance

Location: Bury Head Office

JD Overview:

JD Fashion Plc is a leading international multi-channel retailer of branded sports, fashion, and outdoor brands. Established in 1981 with a single store in the North-West of England, today JD is an industry leading retail business with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across a number of retail fascias in 32 markets around the world. JD is at the pinnacle of the global sports fashion industry, providing customers with a product range that remains both authentic and uniquely appealing across a highly differentiated omni-channel experience.

Our business model is split into Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019. In FY21, JD Sports Fashion Plc generated revenues of £6,167.3m, underlying PBT of £324.0m and net cash of £795.4m and a market capitalisation of £7.275bn.

JD won the International Excellence award at the Drapers Awards 2021 and was named best performing share of the 2010s with revenues increasing from £770m in 2010 to £6.1bn in 2021.

Role Overview:

To ensure accurate and timely payments are made to Resale suppliers through efficient well controlled processes.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Delivery of accurate processing of high volumes of invoices to pre agreed KPIs
• Performing 3-way match between order, invoice and receipt using Didos system
• Investigation of quantity/price discrepancies and liaison with the Merchandising team and the Warehouse
• Reconciling supplier statements and dealing with supplier queries
• Applying strong controls to deliver a smooth month end closure process

Skills/Knowledge/Experience needed:

• Experience required – microsoft outlook, excel and word
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Ability to achieve high levels of accuracy whilst working under pressure
• Experience of working within a fast paced accounts payable environment
• Experience of Oracle (EBS) an advantage