Controllership Finance Manager - Trading
Job Title
Controllership Finance Manager - Trading
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
Category
Accounting
Closing Date
4 March 2025
About the role:
Providing customers with the best products at the best prices, we believe in seeing challenges where others see problems – our culture is resilient, energetic and exceptionally fast-paced. If you think you’ve got the skills and personality to succeed in this environment, consider joining us in this key Finance role.
In this role, you’ll be pivotal to ensuring that our corporate and business strategies are supported by the very best financial accounting and control processes – and that these processes continually maximise our profitability and efficiency.
As a Finance Manager within our Financial Control team, you will combine technical accounting with coaching, communication, influencing, leadership and prioritisation skills to ensure that we maintain a strong control environment over one of our key Trading areas, and help the Traders/Buyers to deliver their financial plan (Sales & GP).
Your role:
* As Financial Controller for one of our key Trading areas you would manage accurate and timely production of financial information for internal/external reporting, including compliance with group accounting policies and procedures and managing the related financial control environment.
* Reviewing financial performance on a monthly basis with Commercial Finance customers including clear articulation of variances to plan/forecast.
* Maintaining an awareness of risk management issues across a key Trading area, and lead cross functional projects to enhance the control environment.
* Advising the Traders/Buyers and Commercial Finance teams on the risk and financial control implications of new business initiatives.
* Review of month-end balance sheet reconciliations.
* Delivery through others – managing a team of 1 qualified accountant and 1 trainee accountant, a key part of the role is coaching and developing these colleagues, as well as managing the resources within the team to deliver team priorities.
* Delivery of process improvement within the team, looking for opportunities to make processes more efficient.
Let's find out about you:
* Qualified Accountant with post qualification experience (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
* Strong technical accounting background.
* Leadership experience, in particular coaching and developing others.
* Confidence liaising with people at all levels.
* Great analytical skills and a strong communicator.
* Able to quickly prioritise and make decisions.
* Able to think laterally and challenge the status quo.
For this role we would require 3 days per week in the Leeds office.
Work Where it Works
Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to choose where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
* Discretionary company bonus
* £5,700 company car or car allowance
* Company pension up to 7% matched
* 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
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