Divisional Assistant Accountant

Divisional Assistant Accountant -  Remote with travel to Volkswagen North West & South West (multi-site)

Driving Excellence in Automotive Finance 

As an Assistant Accountant, you will play a key role in supporting the Dealership Accountant and wider Retail Finance Team to ensure the efficient, accurate and timely processing of financial transactions. Working closely with site teams and senior management, you will help maintain strong financial controls and contribute to high-quality reporting across multiple Volkswagen locations.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your financial expertise within a global automotive organisation, working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What we can offer you 

• Enjoy 33 days of annual leave (including bank holidays) to rest and recharge
• Save money every day with our exclusive retail discounts
• Drive a great deal with discounts on new and used cars, plus servicing offers
• Plan for the years ahead with our company pension scheme
• Balance home and work with our industry-leading family-friendly policies designed to help you spend more time with the people that matter
• Commute for less with our cycle-to-work scheme
• Prioritise your wellbeing with dedicated support for you and your family
• 24/7 access to healthcare professionals, ensuring you get the expert advice you need quickly and easily
• Make a difference with a paid day to volunteer in your community
• Invest in your future with our company share purchase plan
• Earn financial rewards when you refer a friend to join the team
• Keep learning and growing with our training and development opportunities for everyone.
• Life assurance with the option to increase cover
• We’re open to flexible working options – just ask

What you’ll do day to day

• Support monthly financial processes, including preparation of accounts, nominal ledger balance sheet reconciliations (in line with Group 1 procedures and Sarbanes Oxley requirements), and completion of local month-end tasks to ensure timely and accurate accounts production.
• Provide financial analysis to support business partnering and decision-making, while ensuring adherence to all financial policies, auditing standards, and Group 1 accounting procedures, escalating any non-compliance where necessary.
• Assist with managing dealership fixed assets, processing payment requests, completing AX Manage reporting, and resolving finance-related queries for operational teams, escalating where appropriate.
• Support dealership teams and the Finance Centre with cashiering, banking queries, and stakeholder requests, responding professionally and promptly.
• Conduct regular debt reviews with site teams, actively investigate and clear aged items and accounting exceptions, and help ensure timely collections to minimise risk.

Helpful skills and qualifications

Don’t worry about ticking off every single skill here − if you care about delivering great experiences as much as we do, we want to hear from you.

• Experience in an accounting or finance support role, with strong numerical and analytical skills, including advanced Excel capability, and a high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Able to work to deadlines in a fast-paced environment, with excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload effectively.
• Confident managing multiple stakeholder requirements with a customer-first mindset, demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.
• Professional integrity with the ability to maintain financial control under pressure; knowledge of Keyloop/CDK/Autoline (Kerridge) is desirable.

We value diversity and believe it strengthens our team. If you don’t meet every requirement listed but are enthusiastic about this role and eager to learn, we encourage you to apply.

Be part of something big

Group 1 Automotive is on an exciting growth journey. We are home to over 7000 colleagues dedicated to providing exceptional customer service, with 114 dealerships in the UK, representing 21 brands at the forefront of automotive retail.

But you don’t need to love cars to work with us - just need to share our mission to create outstanding and trusted experiences for our customers, our partners, and our people.

Our Values

At Group 1 Automotive, we pride ourselves on our five core values that are incorporated in all that we do.

Respect - Integrity - Transparency - Teamwork – Professionalism

These are the principles that every member of our team lives by, whether that be business functions, customer interactions, how we interact with the local community and even how we view each other in the team.