Reporting Finance Manager - Europe - 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Posted 1 week ago by JD Sports Fashion
Negotiable
Fixed-Term
Undetermined
Bury, England, United Kingdom
Summary: This role is for a Finance Manager within the Europe Reporting Team, responsible for producing management accounts and statutory accounts across multiple countries. The position involves managing a team to ensure timely reporting and compliance with local GAAP, as well as overseeing audits and financial reconciliations. The Finance Manager will also engage with senior stakeholders and ensure effective cash flow management and forecasting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the production of the monthly P&Ls and Balance Sheet, understanding variances and trends.
- Production of monthly reporting packs with analysis and commentary, presenting these to senior finance and retail stakeholders.
- Responsibility for the monthly balance sheet reconciliation with sign off on a monthly and quarterly basis.
- Production of balance sheet and cashflow pack with KPI summary.
- Continual review of processes including purchase ledger, banking, and trade receivables, ensuring relevant controls are in place.
- Production of reporting to feed into the monthly Group Board Pack.
- Responsibility for the half year and year end provision calculations.
- Responsible for the region’s submission into the group half year and year end statutory reporting.
- Responsibility for other statutory reporting including national statistics and intra stat.
- Cashflow management and forecasting.
- Key point of contact for the region with AP, AR, and treasury teams.
- Planning, managing, and completing the year end audits.
- Production of the annual statutory accounts in line with local GAAPs including the annual management report.
- Responsible for annual filing of company accounts.
- Main local point of contact for VAT and Tax submissions, queries, and audits.
- Proactively resolve queries.
Key Skills:
- CIMA / ACCA / ACA Qualified Accountant.
- Retail experience advantageous.
- 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.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Bury
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role Overview This position is a key role in within the Europe Reporting Team and the overall JD Finance Team. As a Finance Manager, your responsibilities will be the production of a robust set of management accounts across multiple countries/companies with P&L and balance sheet analysis to allow management review. The role will be responsible for the production of the statutory accounts in line with local GAAP and managing the external audit to competition. The role will manage a team of four to deliver to group deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for the production of the monthly P&Ls and Balance Sheet understand variances and trends
- Production of monthly reporting packs with analysis and commentary, presenting these to the senior finance and retail stakeholders.
- Responsibility for the monthly balance sheet reconciliation with sign off on a monthly and quarterly basis.
- Production of balance sheet and cashflow pack with KPI summary.
- Continual review of processes including purchase ledger, banking and trade receivables and ensuring relevant controls are in place.
- Production of reporting to feed into the monthly Group Board Pack.
- Responsibility for the half year and year end provision calculations.
- Responsible for the region’s submission into the group half year and year end statutory reporting.
- Responsibility of Other statutory reporting including national statistics and intra stat
- Cashflow management and forecasting.
- Key point of contact for the region with AP, AR and treasury teams.
- Planning, managing and completing the year end audits.
- Production of the annual statutory accounts in line with local GAAPs including the annual management report.
- Responsible for annual filing of company accounts
- Main local point of contact for VAT and Tax submissions, queries and audits.
- Proactively resolve queries
Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed
- CIMA / ACCA / ACA Qualified Accountant.
- Retail experience advantageous
- 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.