Financial Accountant – Fixed Assets, Tech & Lease Accounting Argos
Argos · London
Location: London, Coventry or Manchester Store Support Centre & Home – colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.
About the team
The Finance team supports accurate and timely accounting across Argos fixed assets, technology costs and leases. Working with Finance, Technology, Property, Procurement, Tax and audit colleagues, the team maintains the records, systems and data behind capital expenditure, depreciation, technology-related costs and IFRS 16 lease balances. This is an opportunity to build specialist accounting expertise while helping simplify, standardise and automate important reporting processes.
More about the role
As Financial Accountant – Fixed Assets, Tech & Lease Accounting, you will complete period-end accounting activities across fixed assets, technology costs and leases. You will prepare journals, reconciliations and reporting schedules, investigate variances and resolve reconciling items, ensuring additions, transfers, depreciation, disposals, technology expenditure and lease movements are recorded in line with policy and applicable accounting standards.
Day to day, you will maintain fixed asset and lease records, administer non-property lease data and complete IFRS 16 entries and reconciliations. You will support periodic, interim and year-end reporting, budgets and forecasts, statutory accounts, impairment reviews and audit requests. You will also work with stakeholders to improve data quality and identify opportunities to make processes more accurate, efficient and automated.
More about you
You will be a qualified or part-qualified accountant, or actively working towards an accounting qualification, with practical knowledge of financial accounting, reconciliations and period-end processes. You will understand fixed assets, capital expenditure, technology costs or lease accounting, including IFRS 16 and the treatment of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets.
You will be able to maintain detailed accounting records, investigate variances and use judgement to resolve or escalate complex matters. Strong Excel capability, clear communication and an organised approach to demanding deadlines will support your delivery. Experience of Oracle Financials or lease-accounting systems would be beneficial but is not essential.
Essential criteria
- A recognised accounting qualification, part-qualification, or active study towards an accounting qualification.
- Demonstrable experience of financial accounting, balance-sheet reconciliations and period-end journals or reporting activities.
- Practical understanding of fixed assets, capital expenditure, technology cost or lease accounting, including IFRS 16 or relevant asset-accounting requirements.
- Evidence of maintaining detailed accounting records, investigating variances and resolving or escalating reconciling items.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including experience of managing, analysing and reconciling detailed financial information.
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