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Finance Manager - Balance Sheet & Controls
Location: BL98RR
Working rota: Monday to Friday
Working hours: 40
What You'll Be Doing:
As a Finance Manager - Balance Sheet & Controls, you'll be doing the following:
1. Govern our UK balance sheet (circa £2.2bn in Net Assets).
2. Drive teams to a better standard in terms of controls and accounting - enforcing our framework.
3. Line manage and develop two part qualified accountants.
4. Help us problem solve blockers in speeding up our month end timetable.
5. Feed into our risks and opps process with our Commercial Finance teams.
6. Improve our insight into performance of two small entities in the group.
What We're Looking For:
* Fully Qualified Accountant with either ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualifications.
* Proven Expertise: Comfortable with principles on concepts around financial controls, ideally with experience working in a retailer or consumer facing business.
* Attention to Detail: A meticulous approach to balance sheet management to drive confidence in P&L messaging and our understanding of working capital.
* Problem Solver: Ability to identify and tackle challenging processes to help us reach a best-in-class standard for accounting governance.
* Persuader: Skilled at influencing stakeholders and collaborating across multiple departments.
* Someone keen to line manage, coach, and develop Management Accountants.
The Company:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.
We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.
Benefits:
* Incremental Holiday Allowance
* Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
* Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
* Discounted Gym membership
* Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
* Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications
Interested?
If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.
Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.
Thank you again for your time.
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