Excellent opportunity to join the Commercial Finance department at JD Sports!
This position is a key role in within the Eastern Europe Region of the JD Finance Team. As the Eastern Europe Commercial Finance Manager, your responsibilities will include all budgeting, forecasting and analysis for multiple countries/companies and stakeholders within the region. There will be focus on store payroll enabling the retail to team to manage this efficiency and drive costs savings. Key point of liaison with the in country teams in order to understand trends and future projections as well as support adhoc requests to provide insight to the field based teams.
* Sales forecasting and budgeting in collaboration with Retail teams
* Payroll forecasting and budgeting in line with the established regional headcount model
* Presentation of forecast and budgets reviews to the Head of International Finance and retail team highlighting risks and opportunities to plan.
* Regular Sales analysis and reporting - providing insight to underlying key drivers of performance
* Regular Payroll analysis and reporting - providing insight to good / bad performance, and supporting improvement
* Responsible for ensuring the integrity of time and attendance systems and associated reporting and including any implementation of new time and attendance systems.
* Analysis and insight across all store operating costs. Converting this information into efficiencies, working with other departments to achieve
* Analysis and insight of central operating overheads, developing benchmarks for efficiency
* Longer term growth forecasting and analysis to support the Group's strategic growth plans across Europe
* Quickly develop and deliver new analysis to help stakeholders understand changes in the businesses' environment
* Input into Cashflow forecasting process to support
* Support Property Finance team on new store investment appraisals
* Support Reporting team to deliver clear and robust reporting and analysis
* Understand commercial retail context allowing review of store and multichannel operational performance
* Ability to work with stakeholders across different levels and different countries
* Manage a team of one in the region
Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed:
* CIMA / ACCA / ACA Qualified Accountant - PQE experience essential.
* Experience with working alongside and influencing multiple senior stakeholders; both financial and non-financial
* Management accounts / core finance experience essential.
* Advanced Excel skills, TM1 experience not essential but an advantage
* Excellent attention to detail.
* Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
* Positive, flexible, enthusiastic and driven.
* Flexibility to be able to adapt to a fast pace of change
The Company:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.
We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.
To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.
We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:
* Incremental Holiday Allowance
* Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
* Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
* Discounted Gym membership
* Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
* Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications
Interested?
If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.
Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion
Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.
Thank you again for your time.
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