The Vacancy
What is the role
Working within an onsite, in-house, commercial finance team, delivering consistent quality business information to a rapidly growing multi-channel, multi brand retail business. This requires close working relationships with key stakeholders and supervision of a small team, ensuring that they are effectively trained and performing within a fast-paced environment.
What you will do
* Responsible for the maintenance of the monthly balance sheet control accounts along with branch account reporting and processing
* Assist with the preparation of statutory financial statements and annual audit requirements, liaising with auditors when required.
* Review and control purchase ledger accuracy and completeness.
* Overall responsibility of stock management from a financial perspective. Processing, reviewing and reporting on stock intake, despatch, invoicing and movements. Including the following:
o Identifying, establishing and implementing inventory policies and procedures.
o Assisting with regular stock checks and investigating variances to report to management.
o Coordinating with the production and supply chain teams to ensure that records relating to inventory in the system are properly maintained.
o Coordinating with other accounting team members to ensure that all product costs are properly taken in the cost of sales and inventory costs.
o Communicating with warehouse, department managers and purchasing department on inventory levels and locations.
o Supervision of staff and ensuring that goods received by warehouse are appropriately matched to purchase invoices and costs are correctly recorded.
* Regular stock and margin reconciliation with investigation and reporting on key variances.
* Compliance reporting
* Assisting Financial Controller with system development and ad-hoc relevant projects
* Working with the wider finance team, supporting other functions as and when required
What you will bring
* Qualified (or nearly qualified) professional accountant
* Experience of staff management
* Operationally oriented and comfortable working in a retail environment; experience with multi-site operations would be ideal.
* Have a detailed understanding of systems and inventory control systems, with a working knowledge of inventory processes.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Competent in Microsoft Excel and comfortable with leaning new software systems/packages. Experience of Access Accounting would be advantageous.
* Fluent in English.
* Mature, self-motivated, proactive, willing to learn and able to work under pressure.
* Experience of large company reporting requirements would be beneficial.
The Company
Yours Clothing is a retailer that provides the best value on the UK high street and internet for curvy customers. Along with our big and tall menswear brand, BadRhino, our Long Tall Sally brand and our most recent addition, PixieGirl Petites, the business is growing at pace to cater for non-standard sizes on the high street and online.
Our continued success comes from our entrepreneurial thinking and listening to our customers to deliver fashion products at the right price. Our environment is fast paced, ever evolving and full of excitement. Yours Clothing continues to expand and become the number one plus size fashion retailer in the UK whilst continuing to develop our brands into new and exciting niche markets both in the UK and further afield.
Find out more about us here.
The Benefits
50% Discount on all of our brands
Enhanced Holiday allowance
Pension & Life assurance
Bonus scheme
Employee wellbeing and assistance programme
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