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Senior Finance Manager, Corporate Accounting | Listed UK Retail Group
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Senior Finance Manager, Corporate Accounting | Listed UK Retail Group
Manchester (Hybrid, 3 days a week)
£100,000 - £110,000 + Bonus (up to 40%) + Extensive Benefits
Own the technical accounting judgement and financial advisory behind a national store estate as well as delivering strategic modelling as they expand their retail operations.
A premium retailer and a true high street success story, delivering growth and strategic expansion whilst laser focused on ensuring customer satisfaction is at the heart of every decision. They’re scaling across all channels (retail, online and franchise) and this role will drive the growth and development of their retail operations.
The business is part-way through a major change agenda, this role will play a key part in planning everything from new stores to in-store redevelopments as well as consolidation of estates where necessary.
It’s a broad role encompassing strategy, financial modelling, AI / automation work and technical accounting, a truly hybrid position, and there’s few others out there that have this breadth and variety.
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What you'll do
- The store estate - Lease events, closures, impairments, onerous contracts and provisions, with DCF modelling of future cash flows underneath them. You make the judgement calls, and you write the property disclosures that go into the annual report and financial statements.
- The team - Lead 4 direct reports (inside a wider team of 15). They want a reviewer and coach who can guide the team whilst operating strategically. Someone with the standing to challenge and influence senior executives but who can drop in and be hands-on in support of the team where needed. You need to be able to play both roles.
- The wider remit - Property and intercompany statutory accounts, plus the corporate cost areas, which include the group's single biggest cost base. Alteryx and automation work sits here too.
What you'll need
- Qualified accountant with strong technical accounting behind you. Likely trained in practice but we’re open if the right technical skills are there.
- IFRS 16 and property accounting. That's the part with no flex in it. And must be within a large, complex multi-site business (ideally listed)
- A record of coaching qualified accountants and building technical capability
- To be able to commute to Manchester 3 days a week
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About the business
A large and listed UK retailer, part-way through a multi-year programme of expansion and refinement, ensuring they maintaining the high-quality of products that they’re most know for. This change program is what keeps the technical work coming and adds the variety to the role.
We've done a ton of work with them over the years and so can speak firsthand for what the working environment is like. It's fast-paced and they'll throw as much responsibility and exposure at you as you're wanting to take on - and progression will happen quickly off the back of that.
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