Management Accountant - ROI

JD; Bury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Management Accountant, where you'll play a crucial role in overseeing financial governance for a significant revenue-generating business. This position offers the opportunity to enhance finance processes, collaborate with various departments, and contribute to the continuous improvement of accounting standards. With a focus on detail and problem-solving, you'll help streamline operations and provide valuable insights into performance. This dynamic role promises personal development opportunities and a chance to be part of a successful team dedicated to excellence and growth in the retail sector.

Benefits

Incremental Holiday Allowance

Staff Discount

Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount

Discounted Gym Membership

Personal Development Opportunities

Access to Apprenticeships

Qualifications

• Part Qualified Accountant with a strong focus on financial analysis and attention to detail.
• Experience in improving finance processes and working collaboratively across departments.

Responsibilities

• Govern financial operations of a €220m revenue business with multiple stores.
• Manage balance sheets and assist in statutory accounts audits.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Problem Solving

Team Collaboration

Financial Analysis

Process Improvement

Education

Part Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

Management Accountant - ROI

Job Title: Management Accountant - ROI

Location: BL98RR

Working Rota: Monday to Friday

Working Hours: 40 hours

What You'll Be Doing:

As a Management Accountant - ROI, you'll be doing the following:

1. Financially govern a ₠220m Revenue generating business with around 25 stores.
2. Manage a sizeable balance sheet including around ₠20m of inventory.
3. Help us close out our statutory accounts audit quicker and be the face of the Deloitte audit for our Irish subsidiaries.
4. Make a difference by automating or simplifying inefficient parts of our bookkeeping process.
5. Help us problem solve blockers in speeding up our month end timetable.
6. Improve our insight into performance, working closely with our commercial finance teams.

What We're Looking For:

• Part Qualified Accountant: ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification finalist
• Attention to Detail: A meticulous approach to being able to analyze, account for and explain the story behind a trading retail business end to end, P&L and Balance Sheet.
• Champion of Improvement: We're looking for someone who's curious and eager to enhance our finance processes, creating lasting positive changes.
• Solution-Oriented: Skilled at spotting challenges and solving them to help us achieve top-tier standards in accounting governance.
• Team Player: Someone willing to work collaboratively across a large business involving multiple departments and reporting lines.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.