Client Details

An ambitious and growing global retailer who's Finance team supports the overall global business.

Description

Key responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining accounting manual documentation by ensuring policies adhere to IFRS for management and statutory accounting.
• Ensure the business' audit deliverables meet the requirements of the auditors both in terms of quality and timeliness by way of the year end audit milestone plan.
• Responsible for the annual audit, including day-to-day liaison with the external audit team for year end.
• Coordinating the preparation of audit deliverables with the Finance team and other departments in line with audit timings.
• Redesign and production of Statutory (company only and consolidated) FRS101 & IFRS accounts of all Group Companies (local and overseas).
• Recommending any changes from new/amended accounting standards and implementing them in the Financial Statements as required.
• Proactively supporting the wider Finance team and BI team to help improve the Finance reporting suite as required.
• Ensuring external tax experts prepare the year-end tax computations and returns in line with audit milestones.
• Ad hoc requests from the FC, GFD, or CFO.

Profile

Successful candidate:

• ACA or equivalent qualification.
• Solid accounting experience including statutory accounting, consolidation, and tax.
• Knowledge of the end-to-end statutory audit process, and experience of liaising with auditors.
• Up to date knowledge of the latest accounting standards and how they affect a retail business.
• Experience of producing accurate, high quality, reliable financial information.
• Experience of working with finance systems - Navision preferred.
• Experience of working with BI and reporting systems - Tableau, Smartsheet advantageous.
• Able to work as part of a team and autonomously to deadlines when required.
• Effective communication and organisational skills.
• Have an inherent sense of dependability and accountability.
• Advanced user of MS Excel and intermediate user of MS Word & PowerPoint.
• Possessing strong business awareness and acumen.

Job Offer

Competative day rate

2-3 day a week in the office hybrid approach