Finance Manager
- Recruiter
- The Consultancy Group
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- £55000 - £60000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
- Posted
- 21 Aug 2017
- Closes
- 28 Aug 2017
- Ref
- MW-FAM-NAP
- Contact
- Matt Whipp
- Job Title
- Finance Manager
- Category
- Retail / Wholesale
- Experience Levels
- Manager
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client, a well known International Retail Brand is looking for a Financial Accounting Manager to work in their Group Finance function as the Financial Accounting Manager. This position will manage a team of 6 and will report into the UK Financial Controller.
The Financial Accounting Manager will have full responsibility for leading the team through the month-end process; reviewing all the month-end journals and preparing all monthly management accounts for the businesses in the EMEA region.
Key Responsibilities:
Month-end
- Lead team throughout month-end processes to ensure reporting deadlines are met
- Review all month-end journals posted by the Financial Accounting team (Opex/Capex, Brands/Creative and Gross Margin)
- Preparation of monthly management accounts
- Preparation of month-end file for review by UK and Head of Financial Control
- Providing and reviewing monthly P&L and Balance Sheet commentary
- Prepare month-end cost centre packs and summaries for use in the wider business, commenting on key in-month performance
- Responsible for the upkeep of monthly spend trackers within the wider business to ensure completeness and consistency in month-end reporting
Management
- Train, support and directly supervise 3 Accountants and 3 Accounts Assistants
- Develop improvements within the Financial Accounting team, identifying areas for process improvements and reviewing the impact on the team and wider business
Other
- Work cross functionally between the global finance and other business teams, developing key relationships and influencing multiple levels of the business
- Attend monthly FP&A trade reviews to gather commercial insight into business activities
- Frequent use of FP&A budgets/ latest estimates to aid analysis and field ad hoc business queries, extracting necessary data to support decision making processes
- Assisting with year-end audit
- Actively involved in merger related work
- Other ad-hoc queries
You will need to be a qualified accountant ACA/CIMA/ACCA with relevant post qualified experience and a keen interest in the Retail sector.