Financial Controller - Property & Retail

Financial Controller, Property & Retail required for our client, a FTSE 250 retailer based in West London.

This is a hugely exciting role offering a mixture of both commercial and technical accounting whilst have the opportunity to manage a team of 5.

This role will also have the opportunity to progress into a divisional Finance Director role, and would suit someone either with relevant retail / property experience from industry OR Manager / Senior Managers from Audit (Big 4) will be considered.

As this role focuses and partners with the Assets and Estates team, the successful candidate MUST BE FAMILIAR WITH THE NEW IFRS16 regulation, which recently came into effect, regarding property reporting.

Key skills:

• ACA / ACCA Qualified Accountant with a minimum of 5 years PQE
• Retail / Property experience either within Audit / Industry
• IFRS 16 knowledge if also essential
• Stakeholder Management - Manage and influence senior stakeholders

Role will include:

• Directly Business Partner the Property Assets team by providing analysis and delivering insight that ensure opportunities are maximised and risks appropriately mitigated for strategic business projects
• Own the financial processes including month end, balance sheet, P&L and cash inputs for the property, retail and overhead areas including
  • Management of month end in a timely and accurate manner
  • Ensuring the balance sheet is fully understood and reconciled
• Manage a balance sheet and P&L accounting for in excess of £1bn of assets and liabilities
• Ensure accounting treatments are in line with relevant accounting standards and minimum control standards, manage the audit process with our external auditors and half year and year end
• Oversee the accounting for complex areas and areas of judgement including property provisions and accruals
• Lead the team to deliver high quality accounting and control and clear communication to other areas of finance and the business
• Drive process improvement to standardise and simplify processes across the brands and the various areas
• Ensure risks and opportunities are identified and mitigated where required
• Creatively drive value through identification of accounting and business opportunities
• Budgeting and Forecasting - support these key processes as required in particular through provision of actual costs and balances with insights into key drivers and movements
• Accounting advice - advise on the financial accounting implications of new accounting standards, in particular IFRS 16 and be responsible for implementation of related process changes
• Work closely with the shared service centres and other financial control teams to ensure the operations are efficient and financial results well controlled
• Drive performance- continually identify opportunities to drive business profit and team efficiency

For more information, please contact Amel Steel on 020 3862 2800 /