Senior Accountant, US

Stella McCartney; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Exclusive staff sales

Flexible working/core hours

Maternity/paternity enhanced

Fitness membership

Volunteer leave

Employee referral bonus

Financial Wellbeing Support Services

Job summary

Stella McCartney is seeking a Senior Accountant to lead the US region's accounting close, reconciliations, and reporting. You will partner with Retail Operations and business leaders to analyze results, drive variance analysis, and support budgeting and forecasting in a dynamic luxury retail environment.

The ideal candidate has senior-level accounting experience, strong Excel skills, and SAP proficiency, with a focus on accurate financial reporting and process improvement across multiple store

Qualifications

• Senior-level accounting experience with GL and month-end close.
• Experience in luxury retail or wholesale preferred.
• Strong analytical and business partnering skills.
• Advanced Excel skills with data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities and ensure accurate reporting.
• Prepare reconciliations and provide analytical support to stakeholders.
• Perform daily reconciliation of credit card transactions and store activities.
• Monitor store performance, analyze KPIs, and explain variances to drive cost control and decision making.
• Prepare executive-level analyses and ad hoc reports for management.

Skills

Financial analysis

Attention to detail

Business partnering

Excel advanced

Tools

SAP

Job description

Working at Stella McCartney

Working at Stella McCartney is a truly rewarding experience. As a luxury fashion company with a strong ethical standpoint we are leaders and innovators in our industry.

Overview

The Senior Accountant is a key member of the Accounting team, responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timely reporting of the US region's financial results to Stella McCartney headquarters, internal stakeholders, and external auditors. This role oversees all accounting activities related to the region's cost centers, including month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, lease accounting and agreement analysis, landlord sales audits, and store MRP preparation and reporting. In addition, the Senior Accountant partners closely with Retail Operations and business leaders to analyze financial results, identify variances to budget and forecast, and provide actionable insights to support effective expense management and decision-making. The role also plays an active part in the budgeting and forecasting process by providing financial analysis, reporting, and support that help drive business performance and strategic planning. This position requires a highly analytical, detail-oriented accounting professional who can balance operational excellence with strong business partnering skills in a dynamic luxury retail environment.

Your Mission

• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant financial reporting.
• Prepare and maintain account reconciliations while providing analytical support to business stakeholders.
• Perform daily reconciliation of credit card transactions and settlements.
• Reconcile daily retail sales activity across all store locations and sales channels.
• Monitor financial performance, identify trends across key performance indicators (KPIs), and analyze significant variances to determine underlying business drivers.
• Provide store management and the Store Operations team with detailed analysis of store operating expenses and financial performance.
• Serve as a financial partner to store managers, providing guidance and education on store contribution reports and key financial metrics.
• Act as the primary liaison for landlord sales audits, coordinating requests and ensuring timely responses.
• Prepare and post month-end journal entries in accordance with company policies and accounting standards.
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations and resolve reconciling items in a timely manner.
• Partner with budget owners to monitor expenses, provide financial guidance, and support cost-control initiatives.
• Provide financial data and supporting documentation required for tax provision calculations and related reporting.
• Prepare and deliver data, analyses, and support for internal and external audit requests.
• Review, validate, and upload monthly treasury-related journal entries.
• Prepare executive-level presentations, financial analyses, and ad hoc reports to support management decision-making.
• Participate in cross‑functional initiatives and special projects as assigned.

Your Talent

• Luxury retail and/or wholesale industry experience preferred.
• Proven senior-level accounting experience, with responsibility for general ledger accounting, financial reporting, and month‑end close processes.
• Self‑motivated and proactive, with the ability to prioritize, organize, and effectively manage multiple responsibilities independently.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and the ability to manage a broad range of accounting activities with minimal supervision.
• Ability to perform effectively in a fast‑paced environment, manage competing priorities, and consistently meet deadlines.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis, pivot tables, complex formulas, and financial modeling.
• Experience with SAP required.

Pay Band

$80 - $85,000/year, dependent upon experience

Reward

Our philosophy is to go beyond monetary return and consider ourselves responsible for your wellbeing, your family, your health, your time and the community.

• Employee discount
• Exclusive staff sales and sample sales
• Flexible working/core hours
• Maternity/paternity enhanced
• Fitness membership (Classpass) and onsite yoga
• Volunteer and Birthday leave
• Employee referral bonus
• Financial Wellbeing Support Services

Inclusion & Diversity

We welcome people with disabilities and endeavour to make reasonable adjustments, if you do require such adjustments please let us know within 48 hours of your interview.

Company Values

At Stella McCartney, we like to be bold. For us this means challenging ourselves and the wider industry in which we operate. As part of our commitments to inclusive fashion, we have an ambitious strategy to put diversity, equity and inclusion at the centre of everything we do. Our starting point is to create a workplace where different voices are respected, heard and empowered in equal measure regardless of factors such as culture and backgrounds, and to influence and disrupt fashion and other industries by providing opportunities for global diverse talent to shine.

#MD1

Our mission is to bring conscience to the industry through our shared values and activist non‑conformity. We are committed to make every action count; whether we are leading the way in sustainability or continuing to blur the lines through genderless collections that celebrate our free‑thinking individuality, we are accountable for the impact that we have on planet earth and its people. Though our mission is progressive and changes the way the fashion industry works, we remain rooted by our family mindset and connected by a shared trust that inspires inclusivity as well as ground‑breaking ideas. We celebrate the life of every member of our global tribe, from the next‑gen changemakers pushing us forward to the female icons that have been the heart of our inspiration since 2001.

Read more about our brand history here