Accounts Manager
Full Time
Job Description
- Monthly transactional processing, to ensure the timely completion of management accounts within internal deadlines.
- Assist and provide guidance to the Accounts Payable Officer, Central Europe in completion of their duties.
- Review monthly Income Statements and Balance Sheets for errors/omissions, ensure compliance with company policies and procedures and ensure that the basis of preparation of financial information from subsidiaries is in accordance with GAAP and AIFRS.
- Ensure consistent financial processes are in place across European subsidiaries.
- Provide high level commentary and analysis to the Finance Manager on monthly performance and drivers of variances.
- Review and control balance sheets and ensure tight control over provisions and receivables.
- Ensure foreign currency balances are revalued appropriately in the monthly management accounts.
- Update and reconcile intercompany loan accounts for all relevant group entities, ensuring that these accounts are reconciled regularly.
- Review Capex spending against forecast and ensure any variations are approved in accordance with company policy.
- Develop a commercial understanding of subsidiary businesses and communicate commercial issues to the Finance Manager as required.
- Become a key point of contact for in-house transactional teams and team members within the German, Austrian, Swiss and Italian markets.
- Assist with coordinating the completion and lodgment of all tax compliance requirements, including corporate tax, GST/VAT/Sales tax returns, employment taxes, etc.
- Assist with reducing the time required to close month end and report results by leveraging internal IT resources and refining existing manual processes.
- Help strengthen internal controls surrounding all finance related operations, both back office and at a retail level.
- Continuous improvement of monthly analysis as business needs change.
- Periodic review of financial systems and reporting to ensure analysis and reporting are in line with business needs.
- Assist with improving the efficiency of finance processes and building an effective control environment within European subsidiaries.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Professional qualifications: part qualified – finalist ACCA/CIMA or other recognised professional qualification.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in one or more of the following degrees: Business, Accounting, Finance, Commerce or similar.
- +4 years’ experience as an accounting professional, retail sector an advantage.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based ERP systems, with prior exposure to NetSuite and Anaplan a bonus.
- Pan-European accounting experience an advantage.
- Experience and understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP.
- Demonstrated ability to proactively identify and escalate issues and process improvements.
- Hands-on, practical problem solving and process improvement skills and ability to complete tasks within set timeframes.
- A keen eye for detail.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (English).
- Strong interpersonal skills and a natural capability to develop and maintain meaningful cross-functional relationships.
- Experience with Hybris, Adyen, Givex and retail POS systems would be advantageous.
- Comfortable within an open-plan and curated working environment, with a requirement to adapt and embrace the established norms, values and etiquette of the business.
- One additional European language would be a significant advantage
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