The role reports to the Balance Sheet Reporting & Control Manager- as part of the wider Group finance team. You would have coaching responsibilities for 2 team members. This currently would be an assistant accountant and a graduate. A great role for an individual looking to make a first move into industry or an individual who has audit or management accounts experience.
Responsibilities:
• Prepare monthly balance sheets and management accounts, providing commentary on significant movements and variances.
• Establish, monitor, and improve internal controls over financial processes to safeguard the Group's financial integrity.
• Oversee the general ledger and ensure all transactions are recorded, filed, and reported accurately.
• Business partnering with teams to obtain key information for financial control meetings
• Analyse financial data to identify trends and variances, and provide insights into their causes.
• Support the team with technical expertise relating to project-based accounting
• Implement improvements of finance processes and reporting
• Take a proactive approach to risk management, ensuring risks and issues are identified, addressed and reported and, where appropriate, escalated
About you
Key Skills;
• Qualified accountant (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex information to diverse audiences.
• The confidence & ability to challenge non-finance stakeholders to deliver the right end-results
• Resilience and the ability to adapt in an ever changing environment
• Strong ability to build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, to work collaboratively to achieve objectives.
• Strong ability to work flexibly - managing changing and competing priorities and absorbing new information rapidly to address complex issues.
• Takes ownership and uses initiative to solve problems
• Pro-active individual with a can-do attitude
About us
Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.
Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you'll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.
We host regular seasonal events and you'll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We're also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.
Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we've lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We'd love to meet you...
Some of the benefits you can expect as follows; 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
Generous holiday entitlement
4 and a half day working week with flexible working hours
Company pension contributions
Perks with over 850 retailers
Free parking onsite
A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave
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