Cash Reconciliation Assistant

Seasalt Limited; England; Hybrid; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking a Cash Reconciliation Assistant for their Finance team. This full-time role involves reconciling transactions, posting accounting entries, and assisting in financial operations. The role allows flexible working across their Cornwall offices and remote locations in the UK. Candidates should possess excellent IT skills, attention to detail, and strong analytical abilities. Competitive salary and generous employee benefits are offered including annual leave, medical plans, and learning opportunities.

Benefits

£24,640 annual salary

34 days paid annual leave

50% employee discount

Private medical scheme

Pension plan with 7% employer contributions

Flexible working opportunities

Learning and development opportunities

Paid volunteering opportunities

Qualifications

• Excellent attention to detail and numeracy essential.
• IT literate with good Microsoft Office package skills.
• Methodical and logical approach to problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Reconciling store and online transactions accurately.
• Posting and reconciling sales to partner accounts.
• Assisting Credit Controller with timely debt payment.

Skills

IT literate

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Organized

Time management

Team player

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

Seasalt began in 1981 with a small shop in Penzance, selling workwear to local mariners and practical overalls to artists. Today, we’ve grown into a thriving omnichannel retailer with over 80 UK and Ireland stores, 400+ wholesale stockists, and a growing international and online footprint.

As a B Corp and winner of both Drapers “Best Place to Work” and CIPD’s “Best Recognition Programme”, we care deeply about our people, our communities and our long‑term impact. Our Head Office teams provide the foundations that empower our people to drive sustainable growth across the UK and international markets.

Our Cash Reconciliation team are responsible for the posting and reconciliation of bank, payment channels and wholesale and partner transactions. As a Cash Reconciliation Assistant, you’ll assist in the operation of the Finance function by ensuring that all transactions are recorded, reconciled, and reported accurately in order to meet business requirements.

This is a full‑time, permanent role. As part of our Seasalt Connected approach to ways of working, this role will be based flexibly across our Cornwall head office locations (minimum 40% of working week but the nature of some roles may require more working time in our head offices) and remotely within the UK.

You’ll help us by:

• Reconciling store and online transactions, including: cash, gift‑cards, loyalty cards, petty cash and payment transactions.
• Recording and reconciling sales to e‑commerce partner accounts, such as Microsoft AX.
• Reconciling bank and control accounts including external payment bodies where relevant.
• Posting of accounting entries and preparation of audit working papers, updating as requested.
• Posting of income received from Partners and Wholesale customers ensuring their correct allocation to the relevant customer account on AX.
• Creating import journals and posting journal entries.
• Identifying and resolving any issues where required.
• Assisting the Credit Controller to ensure timely payment of Wholesale debt by sending copy invoices and credit notes on request, sending statement of accounts to customers, chasing up remittances, dealing with customer wholesale queries and maintaining the database.
• Planning, managing, and improving Seasalt’s financial accounting systems and control processes by co‑ordinating and supporting Finance system testing and development, supporting internal and external project teams and suggesting improvements for efficiency.

The skills you’ll be sharing with the team:

• IT literate with good working knowledge of IT packages including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook as a minimum.
• Numerate with excellent attention to detail.
• An analytical mind.
• Rigorous, methodical and logical approach to problems.
• Organised with excellent time management.
• Able to prioritise and work autonomously.
• Good team player.
• Excellent communications skills (IT, verbal, telephone and written).

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.

Benefits:

• Salary: £24,640 per year (Band 1)
• 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• Attractive 50% employee discount
• Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
• Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
• Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
• Life assurance programme
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Flexible working opportunities with our hybrid working approach
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Do Good Things with our two days per year paid volunteering opportunities
• Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion & Belonging Network
• 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub

At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles.

We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives – diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at [e-mail]

Close date - 20th January 2026