Financial Reporting Manager

Halfords Group PLC; West Midlands Combined Authority; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent retailer is seeking a Financial Reporting Manager to lead financial reporting processes and enhance controls for Halfords Autocentres. This role is crucial for managing a £80–£100m supply chain, preparing detailed management and statutory reports. The ideal candidate will have accounting qualifications, a deep understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP, and strong Excel skills, contributing to a transformative finance function within a dynamic environment.

Benefits

£5,000 Car Allowance

Employee discounts

Annual discretionary bonus

Pension and life assurance

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Enhanced family leave

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience in a technical finance role involving complex reporting and reconciliations.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Advanced Excel skills managing large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end financial reporting process for Halfords Autocentres' 3PL supply chain.
• Manage monthly and year-end reconciliations.
• Lead the transformation of manual reporting processes.

Skills

Technical accounting

Excel proficiency

Analytical skills

Process improvement

Education

Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA or equivalent)

Tools

SAP

Job description

Apply now Job no: 559128
Work type: Full time
Site: Redditch
Categories: Finance
Location: West Midlands, Worcestershire
Salary: Up to £56,000 + £5,000 Car Allowance

About us

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

The role

As Financial Reporting Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in managing and transforming the financial reporting processes that underpin Halfords’ complex supply chain. This is a high-impact position responsible for tracking purchasing and inventory across the network, managing supplier financing lines, and preparing both internal management reports and external statutory reporting. You’ll own the accounting processes for a key area of the business that supports £80–£100m of annual purchasing, and your work will be seen at board level.

You’ll bring deep experience in technical accounting, with a strong grasp of IFRS and UK GAAP, along with the ability to manage complex reconciliations in a heavily manual, spreadsheet-driven environment. As a qualified accountant with strong Excel skills, you’ll thrive on navigating detail, challenging assumptions, and proactively improving accuracy and controls. This role requires someone who can build strong relationships across supply chain, category, legal, and finance teams, as well as with external logistics partners and auditors.

This is an opportunity for a finance leader who’s not afraid of complexity and who sees the challenge in turning fragmented manual processes into something robust, accurate, and systemised. With SAP in place and a transformation agenda on the table, there’s real scope to make your mark by shaping long-term reporting solutions that reduce risk, increase transparency, and improve efficiency across the board.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end financial reporting process for Halfords Autocentres' 3PL supply chain, including internal and external reporting.
• Design and implement improved processes, controls, and reporting frameworks to streamline supply chain accounting.
• Manage monthly and year-end reconciliations across inventory, purchasing, accounts payable, and receivable — ensuring alignment with IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Prepare and deliver accurate management reporting and analysis, including adjustments for group consolidation and statutory accounts.
• Lead the transformation of manual reporting processes into systemised, automated workflows in partnership with ERP and finance teams.
• Work closely with internal teams (Supply Chain, Category, Finance, Legal) and external 3PL providers to ensure data accuracy and accountability.
• Liaise with external auditors and provide documentation and justification for areas of ownership.
• Drive continuous improvement across reporting accuracy, data integrity, and process efficiency within a high-value, high-volume purchasing environment.

About you

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA or equivalent) with post-qualification experience in a technical finance role involving complex reporting and reconciliations.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP, with a proven ability to translate management reporting into accurate statutory accounts.
• Advanced Excel skills with experience managing large data sets and building robust reconciliation processes across purchasing, inventory, and supplier financing.
• Track record of driving process improvement, comfortable designing and embedding new finance controls, automating workflows, and integrating manual processes into ERP systems.
• Confident working across cross-functional teams and external stakeholders, including supply chain, legal, commercial, and 3PL service providers.
• Highly analytical and detail-focused, with a proactive approach to solving problems and navigating ambiguity in fast-moving environments.
• Technically astute and intellectually curious, with the resilience and ownership to lead reporting transformation in a high-accountability role.
  
  
• A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.
• Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.
• We offer hybrid working with a blend of working in our Support Centre and from home.
• You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.
• Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.

At Halfords, we operate a hybrid working policy with 2 days on site at our Support Centre in Redditch, Worcestershire.

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