Job Description
Location: Redditch - Hybrid
Reports to: Finance Transformation Director
About Halfords:
At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a leading specialist retailer, we drive innovation with a customer-focused approach and a diverse product range. Our services include everything from e-bike and electric vehicle maintenance to on-demand solutions, creating a seamless customer experience. With a centralised Finance team of around 110 colleagues in Redditch, we are embarking on an exciting Finance Transformation journey, modernising our processes, systems, and controls.
About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced RtR Process Owner to play a pivotal role in transforming our Record to Report (RtR) processes. As a key driver in our finance transformation, you will focus on delivering greater accuracy, efficiency, and control in our financial reporting. This role offers the opportunity to shape a future-ready finance team through the potential implementation of a new ERP system.
Key Responsibilities:
* Own the end-to-end Record to Report (RtR) process, setting the vision and objectives within the overall transformation strategy.
* Lead the design and execution of efficient, future-fit processes using cutting-edge technology to improve accuracy and performance.
* Ensure compliance and timeliness in financial reporting, adhering to group accounting policies and best practice design principles.
* Collaborate with Finance and IT teams to deliver technology enablers that drive transformation.
* Monitor process performance through the setting and measurement of relevant KPIs.
* Engage with business transformation teams to ensure finance processes align with wider business goals.
About You:
You are a qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, etc.) with significant experience in reporting, management accounting, and driving process improvements and enhanced controls. With a strong background in transformation leadership, you have successfully championed finance transformation initiatives, ensuring clear communication, training, and adoption across teams. You lead by influence, fostering engagement and continuous improvement within the Record to Report (RtR) process, and possess solid project management skills, ensuring transformation projects, especially ERP implementations, stay on track and within scope.
You are impact-focussed, with a proactive, tenacious approach to identifying and implementing improvements. Your analytical and communication skills allow you to collaborate effectively with teams and present confidently to senior stakeholders. Adaptable and detail-oriented, you thrive in dynamic environments, building strong relationships across departments. Above all, you demonstrate the highest standards of integrity, always doing the right thing and encouraging productive challenges where necessary.
What We Offer:
At Halfords, we believe in rewarding our team members with a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including:
* 30 days of annual leave to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
* Competitive bonus scheme rewarding your contributions to the business.
* Contributory pension scheme to secure your financial future.
* Long-term investment plan options for continued financial growth.
* Private medical insurance with family cover, plus a colleague assistance programme.
* Car allowance and trade price bike scheme.
* Discounts at Halfords stores and Auto Centres, plus a range of high street retail discounts.
Close date 29th December 2024 - Interviews will take place in January
Not sure you meet all the criteria? We encourage you to apply anyway! At Halfords, we are committed to an inclusive workplace and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, celebrating diversity within our One Halfords Family.
No agencies please