Accountant, EMEA

Jimmy Choo; City Of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury fashion brand in London is seeking a finance partner to handle financial reporting, budgeting, and compliance. The ideal candidate should be professionally qualified with strong experience in a multi-currency environment. Responsibilities include ensuring management accounts drive performance, implementing cost-saving initiatives, and leading SOX compliance efforts. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are essential in this high-pressure role.

Qualifications

• Qualified or close to professionally qualified.
• Background with multi-currency/multi-entity business preferred.
• Extremely strong at multitasking and meeting tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate management accounts drive performance.
• Implement cost-saving initiatives and ensure efficient operations.
• Lead SOX compliance and liaise with auditors.

Skills

Qualified or close to professionally qualified

Strong multitasking skills

Excellent time management

Experience using SAP

Problem-solving skills

Tools

SAP

HP/HFM

Job description

The role will business partner with the shared service provider, lease accounting team, as well as other finance departments.

Responsibilities

• Financial Reporting: To ensure accurate, timely, and insightful management accounts that drive regional team performance, focus on clear communication, readily available data, and proactive analysis.

• Business Partnering: Work closely with the Finance Manager, EMEA, 3rd Party General Ledger team and regional accounting teams to book accurate month end accruals and recharges, ensuring SOX compliance throughout month end procedures.

• Cost Control: Implementing cost-saving initiatives and ensuring efficient financial operations.

• Financial Analysis: Continuously seek opportunities for improvement in financials, processes and reporting to drive efficiencies and accuracy.

• Compliance: Take leadership on delivering on SOX compliance, liaising with Internal Auditors and External Auditors where applicable to complete quarterly and annual audit requirements.

• Budgeting and Forecast: Preparation of the Rent and Property Costs forecasts and budget for future periods

• Costar: Review and reconciliation of CoStar lease accounting to ensure continuous accuracy and completeness of the existing portfolio.

• Other: Ad-hoc project work

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Qualified or close to professionally qualified

• Background with multi-currency / multi entity business preferred

• Experience using SAP and HP/HFM is desirable

• Extremely strong at multitasking and working to tight deadlines

• Drive for Results: Communicates persuasively to win support, minimises or removes barriers that get in the way of achieving results and leverages understanding of key business drivers to deliver results.

• Decision Making: Makes the right short-term decisions without sacrificing long-term results. Balances competing priorities without losing momentum behind execution. The individual should translate strategies into plans that can be effectively executed and transform data and information into meaningful insights

• Collaborates and Influences: Collaborates well with others and is able to influence in the organisation through reasoning and relationships. Understands and uses informal networks at the appropriate level to get achieve completion

Characteristics Required

• Analytical, strategic, and detail-oriented

• Approachable and calm team leader

• Strong brand ambassador for Jimmy Choo, both internally and externally

• Demonstrates the ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines

• Proven problem-solving skills

• Excellent time management and organizational abilities

• Confident, determined, and proactive, with a strong passion for their work

• Takes full ownership of tasks and follows through from start to finish

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