Seasalt is a modern, Cornish-based international company with an ambitious vision. From our family roots, we have grown to be one of Cornwall’s largest employers and a successful omnichannel retailer spanning over 70 shops, 400 wholesale stockists and an impressive online presence.

It's an exciting time to be joining Seasalt! We're always challenging ourselves to think creatively and innovate and our next phase of growth will focus increasingly on opening international markets, as well as domestic expansion.

As our Stock Accountant within our expanding Finance team, you’ll ensure the accurate and timely reporting of our stock position, identifying opportunities to make controls more effective and enhance commercial results.

A great problem solver and influencer, you’ll be able to confidently represent the business with stakeholders (internal and external) and translate operational requirements into finance team tasks.

Please note, the successful candidate for this role will ideally be Cornwall based, however remote working could be considered.

You’ll help us by:

• Proactively develop stock accounting and reconciliation processes to enhance control, align with policy and deliver process efficiencies, including: GPY and landed cost reconciliation
• Managing month-end and BAU stock team processes to ensure accounting entries are complete and reflect the stock value across the business, including: stock provision, stock valuation, stock adjustments, stock write offs, returns write offs, valuation changes
• Proactively business partnering and relationship building with commercial and operational teams, to embed stock management processes and behaviours and drive a greater understanding of stock movements
• Collaborating with the stock management team to ensure timely and accurate reporting
• Supporting with FX/Hedging requirement information provision and reporting
• Assisting with understanding and delivery of internal and external audit requirements

The skills you’ll be sharing with the team:

You’ll be a fully qualified or finalist accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with experience working within a Stock Accountant role, ideally within the retail sector.

Highly motivated, you’ll be capable of working independently and as part of a team with great coaching and management skills.

Resourceful and self-motivated, you’ll be able to manage multiple deliverables while showing accuracy and adherence to tight deadlines and controls around accounting.

You’ll have great communication and organisational skills, being able to question and think logically to flag any issues and problem solve.

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 that 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 of up to £50,000 dependant on experience (Band 3)
• 34 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Flexible benefits allowance
• Long service enhanced holiday allowance
• Generous 50% staff discount on all full priced items
• Employer Contributory Pension
• Retail trust partnership
• Life assurance programme
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Remote medical support partnership
• Paid volunteering opportunities

At Seasalt we believe in creating a positive environment where our differences are respected and each of us feels valued for our contribution. Treating people fairly is part of our values and at the core of our culture. As an inclusive employer, all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, age, socioeconomic background, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity and caring responsibilities, marital status, nationality and disability including invisible disabilities and neurodiversity.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If there’s anything else you’d like to tell us which would help your application, please contact our Resourcing team at careers@seasaltcornwall.co.uk.