Job Description

Your responsibilities will include delivering an accurate & timely month end, preparing monthly management accounts, performing account reconciliations, maintaining the general ledger, preparing tax returns, assisting with audit preparations.

• Month end entries (prepayment, accruals, fixed assets…)
• In charge of the monthly closings and reporting
• Posting and reconciliation of IFRS16 leases
• Preparation of monthly profit and loss accounts and variance analysis
• Preparation of quarterly balance sheets and liaison with Consolidation teams in Paris
• Review/reconciliation of all balance sheet balances
• Input of consolidation / reporting package (Group tool)
• Reporting analyses (cash flow, debt, corporation tax)
• Preparation of statutory accounts
• Preparation of corporation tax computation in liaison with external tax advisor
• Coordination of year end audit with the external auditors
• Preparation of VAT returns
• Preparation of bank reconciliations
• Reconciliation and clearing of concessions accounts
• Reconciliation and clearing of cash and credit card sales payments
• Operational support to stores and other Head Office departments

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

•  Qualified or partly qualified ACCA candidate
• Experience of accounts preparation
• Experience of VAT and corporation tax
• Experience in retail industry
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills and a pro-active approach to challenges.
• Attention to details
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Strong technical skills (UK GAAP and IFRS)
• SAP knowledge
• French Speaker is a plus