Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.
Role Overview: Working alongside the Senior Central Operations Assistant to support on the following activities: • Barclaycard administration – ensure cardholder spend complies with policy. • Expenses – review expenses for compliance • Banking administration – setting up payments and gaining final approval.
Key Roles and Responsibilities: • Barclaycard ◦ Check all submissions for correct coding / VAT recovery / policy compliance. ◦ Liaise with cardholders to ensure all transactions are reviewed and submitted. ◦ Support cardholders on queries relating to card problems. ◦ Administration of new cardholder creation / cards cancellation. ◦ Recharge personal / out of policy spend as required. ◦ Undertake payments using virtual Barclaycards. • Employee expenses – provide support to employee out of pocket expenses using Core HR ◦ Check VAT compliance and policy compliance. ◦ Ensure correct expense categories are selected. ◦ Support employees on expense queries and system guidance. • Banking – create payments on the various banking platforms and obtain final approval including Barclays Precision pay. • Foreign petty cash ◦ Review foreign petty cash requests and issue cash to employees. ◦ Ensure policy is followed and paperwork / receipts / cash is returned at the end of the trip. ◦ Ad hoc tasks to support month end process.
Skills/Experience/Knowledge 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 Oracle (EBS) an advantage
We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
