Finance Manager

Burberry; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading luxury brand in Leeds is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee finance and accounting tasks. In this role, you will manage a team and ensure compliance with policies, while driving continuous improvement. The ideal candidate is a fully qualified accountant with supervisory experience and a focus on developing talent. The role is offered full-time and is based in Leeds for a minimum of 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year PQE experience in a supervisory role.
• Experience in a large corporate environment, ideally in a Shared Service Centre.
• Proven people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage a high performing team of Accountants.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls over financial reporting.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

People management

Technical accounting knowledge

Communication skills

Continuous improvement mindset

Education

Fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Job description

At Burberry, we believe creativity opens spaces. Our purpose is to unlock the power of imagination to push boundaries and open new possibilities for our people, our customers and our communities. This is the core belief that has guided Burberry since it was founded in 1856 and is central to how we operate as a company today.

We aim to provide an environment for creative minds from different backgrounds to thrive, bringing a wide range of skills and experiences to everything we do. As a purposeful, values-driven brand, we are committed to being a force for good in the world as well, creating the next generation of sustainable luxury for customers, driving industry change and championing our communities.

JOB PURPOSE

As the Finance Manager at Burberry, you’ll be overseeing the completion of finance and accounting tasks within the RTR Centre of Excellence, responsible for delivering high quality financial information, compliance and controls. By connecting with stakeholders across the business, you’ll understand commercial priorities and challenges faced to develop solutions, creating new or improving processes to achieve more efficient ways of working.

Alongside this, you’ll manage and lead a brilliant team of Accountants and Senior Accountants in all aspects of the month end process, ensuring resource and skills are allocated effectively while encouraging professional development and a continuous improvement approach.

This Finance Manager role is offered on a full time, permanent basis and will be based in our Queen Street, Leeds office for a minimum of 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Managing and leading a high performing team of Accountants and Senior Accountants, ensuring resource levels, capacity and skills are aligned with operational delivery of accounting processes and reporting requirements
• Ensuring compliance with Burberry policies and SLAs, including operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders across the business, anticipating and responding to needs to inform and develop mutually agreeable solutions
• Understanding the wider business priorities and ways of working, using this to drive simplification, standardisation and automation to deliver more effective, efficient and robust ways of working
• Effectively managing change by identifying opportunities aligned with Finance team and wider business objectives, facilitating implementation, monitoring and improving results
• Encouraging issue identification, implementing corrective and preventive action plans to resolve and mitigate problems
• Deputising for the Senior Manager to lead discussions on a broader department level as needed

Personal Profile

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with at least 1 year PQE
• Experience in a similar supervisory/management role in a large, corporate business, ideally within a Shared Service Centre environment with an international remit
• Demonstrable people management experience, across hiring, training and retaining finance talent. Can provide examples of effective leadership and getting the best out of people, including during demanding periods
• Technical, hands on accounting knowledge applying IFRS or local GAAP
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to influence and build effective relationships to drive collaboration
• Track record and appetite for delivering continuous improvement
• Fluent in English (both written and spoken) essential

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.