Halfords

About us

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

Halfords is quickly becoming a digital services business. In addition to being a leading UK retailer, Halfords has now developed a market leading field service management platform that enables businesses to deliver their complex services to customers through an end-to-end digital solution. The platform is deployed throughout Halfords stores, garages and their mobile business.  The platform has now been taken to market to enable other businesses in our sector and other industries globally to deliver market leading service delivery and an unrivalled customer experience. This SaaS division is called Avayler (Avayler.com).  

If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

The role

As a Finance Assistant, you take pride in building and maintaining key relationships with suppliers, ensuring invoices are processed and paid on time, and using your strong attention to detail to keep records clean and up to date.

You are highly organised and have an inquisitive nature, keen to suggest and work with your colleagues to implement process improvements to increase efficiency, while ensuring accuracy and compliance with company policies.

To you, it’s the opportunity to play a vital role in maintaining the financial health of the organisation, ensuring smooth operations and contributing to the overall success of the team.

As a Finance Assistant at Halfords, you will be part of a dynamic team of approximately six people, responsible for ensuring that an assigned group of suppliers are paid correctly, on time, and in full. This ensures that goods or services supplied to Halfords are not disrupted and that the appropriate financial records reflect all associated transactions correctly. You will also provide administrative support to the Finance and Property Teams to effectively serve the customers of the Halfords Group.

Key responsibilities

• Raising purchase orders and goods receipting of invoices requesting payment against correct purchase orders.
• High-volume purchase invoice processing.
• Resolving all queries arising from activities on the assigned portion of the Accounts Payable ledger, involving research and liaison with both suppliers and colleagues throughout Halfords' retail business via email, phone, and face-to-face interactions.
• Auditing Personal Expense Claims and Procurement Card Transactions to ensure adherence to Company Policy.
• Processing payments to suppliers and landlords.
• Assisting with month-end and KPI reporting.
• Maintaining rent payment schedules accurately, making amendments following instructions from the Property Team, and processing service charges and insurance-related payments.
• Responding to property arrears queries and advising the Property Team on legitimate arrears or working to recover overpayments.
• Supporting the assigned Team Manager with Continuous Improvement activities as required.

About you

• Strong team skills and a willingness to support other team members.
• Proficiency in Excel and Word;
• Accuracy and speed in processing documentation, primarily invoices.
• Experience with SAP and/or Accounts Payable is advantageous.
• Ability to work to deadlines.
• Comfortable working in a friendly and fast paced environment.
• Commitment to participating in the drive for both process and service improvement.

Reward & benefits

• A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.
• Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.
• We offer hybrid working with a blend of working in our Support Centre and from home.  
• You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.
• Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.

This position will be based at least 2 days per week at our Support Centre in Redditch, West Midlands.