Finance Manager - Retail & Overheads

Mountain Warehouse; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A retail company in London is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee management account reporting and lead a team of accountants. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in accounting standards and experience in a large company. You will drive process improvements and ensure accurate financial reporting. This position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package

Hybrid working

50% staff discount

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with experience in a large company.
• Experience working with technical accounting standards (IFRS16, IAS36).
• Demonstrable ability to provide critical support to the business.

Responsibilities

• Oversee period-end close and ensure accurate recording of costs.
• Support development of a robust control environment.
• Manage a team of 3 accountants and support their development.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Experience with IFRS16

Advanced Excel skills

Enthusiastic and self-motivated

Tools

Netsuite

Workday

Job description

Finance Manager - Retail & Overheads

Application Deadline: 30 November 2025
Department: Finance
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: London

Description

Reports to: Accounting & Reporting Partner
Key Stakeholders: Finance Business Partners

This role is focussed on management account reporting for our Retail portfolio, which consists of over 400 Stores - 250 in the UK and 100 Internationally across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific as well as our Central Overheads cost lines across major spend categories such as IT.

You will work as one of the managers in the wider accounting team to ensure and oversee delivery of accurate, timely and robust P&L and balance sheet reporting, maintaining high quality ledger integrity in line with latest accounting standards. You will continuously seek to improve and automate processes to drive efficiency and accuracy across the Team. You will oversee a team of 3 accountants and provide support to the accounting lead to both ensure the accounts are accurate and also to progress continuous improvement projects for the team. You will be a key point of contact for external auditors ensuring their questions are answered accurately and in a timely manner.

Key Responsibilities

Month End

• Oversee and provide hands on support for the period-end close, ensuring accurate recording of all costs relating to the Retail & Overhead in a timely manner and in line with accounting standards.
• Drive the agenda to reduce period-end close and reporting timeline down to 3 days, supporting your team of accountants to find efficiencies and automation in their month end close processes.
• Facilitate clear and effective communication channels between Accounting Team and Finance Business Partners to ensure full understanding of the general ledger and month end position.
• Ensure any reporting completed by your team is done in a timely and accurate manner.
• Support the team to work closely with the AP team to ensure high ledger integrity and accurate invoice posting. Work with the team on solutions to improve any recurring issues.
• Closely oversee the posting of more complicated accounting areas (for example IFRS16 lead accounting adjustments, or postings requiring a higher level of judgement.)
• Remain responsible for the accurate output of your team.
• Oversee the accounting of central overheads ensuring accruals and prepayments are discussed and posted correctly.

Compliance and Controls

• Manage risk and opportunity through the preparation of robust balance sheet reconciliations and regular detailed review of the balance sheets prepared by your direct reports.
• Support the development of a robust and 'future-proof' control environment by continuously identifying opportunities to improve financial systems and processes and by taking the lead on implementing these changes.
• Significant involvement in the year-end process, preparation of deliverables for the audit and key contact for the auditors during the audit process.

Finance Business Partner Support

• Support FBP with understanding of ledger postings and, at times, with detailed and concise P&L commentary for individual / specific areas of the P&L commentary.
• Support FBP with ad hoc data requests to carry out P&L analytics, risks & opportunities management and more.
• Support FBP with some areas of routine forecasting and budgeting.

Systems

• Using Netsuite for journal postings, supporting the junior accountants to seek out opportunities for automation or efficient improvement of the postings.
• Using Workday excel reporting tool to generate accurate data to support FBP with analysis of P&L.

Team

• Day-to-day management of 3 Accountants (2 part-qualified / studying + 1 qualified)
• Manage team workload, identify future resourcing requirements and support the recruitment process.
• Ensure learning and development needs are met by setting objectives, coaching and providing constructive feedback through regular one-to-ones.

Other

• Support the team with use of systems and technology to drive automated and improved efficiency in processes.
• Ongoing non-business as usual project work within the finance team as and when required.

We would like to meet someone who is

• Qualified accountant, experience working in a large company.
• Experience working with technical accounting standards (IFRS16, IAS36 etc.)
• Retail experience preferred, but not essential.
• Demonstrable experience of providing critical support to the business.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and a desire to drive improvements in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial business.
• Excellent numeracy and IT skills including advanced Excel with a strong attention to detail.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Hybrid working, 3 days in London based office & 2 working from home
• Holiday allowance
• 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
• Pension scheme