Senior Financial Accountant - 12 month FTC
Posted 1 day ago by Moonpig
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Financial Accountant involves joining a high-performing Finance team on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract to support Greetz. The position requires ownership of key elements of the P&L and balance sheet, focusing on gross margin, inventory, and operational performance while ensuring accurate financial reporting. The successful candidate will collaborate with various stakeholders to enhance business performance through insightful reporting. This opportunity is ideal for a hands-on, qualified accountant with experience in commercial finance within a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ownership of key parts of our P&L and balance sheet (including gross margin and inventory management), and the supporting month end processes
- Responsible for insightful management reporting and accurate financial reporting
- Partnering with FP&A to develop insightful reporting and analysis
- Be the go-to person for non-finance colleagues in our operations facilities to help them understand performance
- Proactively reviewing, challenging and undertaking continuous improvement within your processes
- Ensuring a robust financial control environment for inventory
- Coaching and advising non-finance staff on process improvements
Key Skills:
- Qualified accountant, ACA or equivalent, with at least two years PQE, with solid technical accounting knowledge
- Can-do attitude, analytical and problem-solving mind-set
- Proactive and comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
- Great attention to detail
- Experience within retail, technology and e-commerce industries would be beneficial
- Comfortable working with and challenging senior stakeholders, including those outside finance
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
We’re looking for a Senior Financial Accountant to join our high performing Finance team on an initial 12 month Fixed Term Contract supporting Greetz. You’ll be stepping into a key role in our Financial Control team, supporting the Greetz Financial Controller, where you'll take ownership of key elements of our P&L and balance sheet – with a particular focus on gross margin, inventory, and operational performance. You'll be responsible for key aspects of our financial statements whilst working with stakeholders across finance and the wider business to help deliver accurate and insightful reporting that help drive better business performance. This is a great opportunity if you’re a hands-on, qualified accountant with a mix of financial and management accounting experience within a commercial finance team, who enjoys making an impact and thrives in a fast-paced, scale-up environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ownership of key parts of our P&L and balance sheet (including gross margin and inventory management), and the supporting month end processes
- Responsible for insightful management reporting and accurate financial reporting
- Partnering with FP&A to develop insightful reporting and analysis
- Be the go-to person for non-finance colleagues in our operations facilities to help them understand performance
- Proactively reviewing, challenging and undertaking continuous improvement within your processes
- Ensuring a robust financial control environment for inventory
- Coaching and advising non-finance staff on process improvements
About you:
- Qualified accountant, ACA or equivalent, with at least two years PQE, with solid technical accounting knowledge
- Have a can-do attitude, an analytical and problem-solving mind-set to understand and challenge ways of working
- Proactive and comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment, with an ability to prioritise workload around deadlines
- Have excellent Microsoft Excel skills
- Show great attention to detail
- Experience within retail, technology and e-commerce industries would be beneficial
- Comfortable working with and challenging senior stakeholders, including those outside finance