Based in Watford, Hertfordshire, our high profile retail client is seeking a qualified accountant to join their business as a Senior Financial Analyst.
This job would suit a CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified accountant with personality and ambition to take ownership of a major part of the European Business ensuring it is maintained, including purchases, sales, gross profit, margin, discounting and returns.
This is a global business seeing significant growth across Europe and even more ambitious plans for the next 5 years including more than doubling its sites across 6 countries. The business is looking for top calibre talent who want to join a business offering a unique challenge and a unique opportunity for future progression.
This role is going to be key in driving through a number of key projects critical to the future growth and would suit a qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA analyst with a blue chip company background and strong academics. This company do offer a significant opportunity for learning for people making their first move out of a TOP 6 Practice but this role is also relevant for commercial analysts passionate about retail.
Job responsibilities:
- Being the point of contact for ad hoc returns and inventory analysis requested by the Senior Leadership Team and the wider business.
- Understanding the requirements and owning and managing expectations to ensure that delivery is made in a timely manner with all requirements met, including planning and presenting of projects.
- The Senior Analyst will need to communicate with a variety of stakeholders including Loss Prevention, Store Operations, Merchandising, Buying and Distribution Services from across the business that need to be engaged throughout the project.
- Throughout all the analysis pieces challenge existing processes and procedures, suggesting actions that will help reduce risk to with the wider business to determine how improvements can be implemented.
- Own the weekly and monthly reporting requirements for the UK and Ireland banners for example: markdown compliance, sales reconciliation, inventory reconciliation, merchandise creditor reconciliation and gross margin reconciliation.
- Responsible for the gross margin and inventory figures for the UK and Ireland which are reported back to the US on a monthly basis
- To be actively involved in the implementation of the new Management System which is the largest project undertaken by the business in this area in 30 years.
- To support the change management process which will involve reviewing training manuals as well as training the other members of the team and becoming an advocate for the change suggesting ideas and proposing plans of how to implement the change in the legacy team.
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