Interim Finance Manager - Retail

Communicate are working with one of the world's largest retailers to help them with the recruitment of a Finance Manager to join there growing finance function.

The Role

You will be providing a high level of financial support, challenge and control for the finance team. This is a key position where you will be given full ownership and accountability in driving the success of some of the world’s biggest brands, as well as an opportunity to establish yourself as a true Finance Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Running month end close activities and ensuring monthly reporting in accordance with Group Financial policy and procedures, requirements and timelines
• Balance sheet integrity and control reviewing reconciliations monthly
• Preparation of statutory accounts and liaising with external auditors
• Tax compliance including monthly VAT reporting
• Ensuring compliance with internal controls and process improvement. Working alongside the group controls team and internal audit
• Developing the financial controls environment within the business
• Liaising with the shared service centre and being the point person for the business
• Covering a set of RB businesses in UK and Ireland
• Review of work performance by outsourced shared service centre
• Submission of results to corporate HQ in accordance with timelines and policy and procedures
• Lead process improvement initiatives

Professional Qualifications and Personal Attributes

• The position is suitable for a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA) with strong experience in providing technical accounting advice
• Ambition and keen to take on responsibility in an organisation that provides a high level of autonomy and individual responsibility
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders through superior communication and presentation skills
• Driven to take on additional responsibility in an organisation that provides a high level of autonomy with ambition to progress your career within finance
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good Excel skills
• A confident self-starter who uses their initiative and can work independently with little supervision
• Acts with a sense of urgency and strong personal accountability
• Strong sense of ownership
• Self-driven
• Collaborative with peers and colleague to drive involvement and engagement
• Attitude and aptitude to thrive in a fast moving, demanding, changing, dynamic environment, with personal integrity to make a positive change when it challenges the status quo
• Understands the need and importance to focus on controls and compliance
• A willingness to challenge generally accepted norms and conceptual flexibility to find best answers

The role is is a 6 month interim role to start in April 2019.