JD Group Plc
Financial Accountant – Group Reporting
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JD Group
Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.
Financial Accountant – Group Reporting
Responsible to:
- Senior Finance Manager – Group Reporting
Department:
- Finance
Location:
- Bury, Greater Manchester. BL9 8RR
The Company:
Role overview:
This position is a key role within the Group Reporting team which is responsible for the delivery of the group month end close process, providing balance sheet and working capital performance analysis, and unlocking benefits from the Oracle consolidation system.
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As Financial Accountant, your responsibilities will be supporting the group’s month end close and multicurrency consolidation processes. You will work closely with other group finance teams including External Reporting, Finance Transformation, FP&A and Internal Controls, local finance teams across the UK, Europe, APAC and North America, and our external auditors (Deloitte).
Key duties & responsibilities:
You will work within a team of 3 Financial Accountants to deliver the monthly close of the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow and support the group’s half and full year external reporting timetable. Responsibilities may include:
- Working with local units to ensure timely submissions and address issues
- Analyse balance sheet, working capital and cash flow movements and support production of Board reporting packs.
- Own specific disclosures and notes in the Group half and full year results.
- Equity and reserves accounting.
- Monthly and year end reporting to the Group’s ultimate parent.
- Intercompany balances and eliminations.
- Adjusting and monitoring new balance sheet KPIs.
- Acquisition, disposal and non-controlling interest accounting.
- Support in establishing and monitoring new balance sheet KPIs with reporting units.
- Preparing consolidation journals and operating associated controls.
- Supporting the work of the Group Internal Controls programme and taking responsibility for the successful operation and testing of controls.
- Working closely with the external auditor to deliver on plan per the required timescales.
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You will support in ongoing transformation activity which may include:
- Maximising the opportunities offered by Oracle FCCS to enhance efficiency, implement best practices across the Group Reporting team, and shorten the month-end close process.
- Working with the Finance Transformation team to implement further phases of the transformation process.
Skills/Experience/Knowledge required:
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or Equivalent).
- Involvement in month end close process or multicurrency consolidation advantageous, ideally on an Oracle platform.
- Advanced Excel skills, Oracle FCCS, TM1 experience advantageous.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Positive, flexible, enthusiastic and driven.
We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
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