Assistant Management Accountant
- Recruiter
- Zachary Daniels
- Location
- West London, UK
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 13 Aug 2019
- Closes
- 25 Sep 2019
- Ref
- 1233925850
- Job role
- Assistant management accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
Assistant Management Accountant | Ealing | £30,000 - £33,000 study support, staff disc, excellent bens. | Leading fashion retail
This is an entry opportunity to one of the UK's most established, and continually successful leading fashion retailers as assistant management accountant . The business has benefited from pro-active strategic decisions taken over recent years in several areas including digitisation, e-commerce and technology. Performance has remained strong despite a fluid UK retail market, testament to the long-term focus and investment across the entire organisation, both online and offline.
About the role
This is a critical role supporting the costs and investments team. Due to the main functional stakeholders of this role, is essential to have first class commercial acumen, communication and presentation ability.
The successful candidate will ensure that complex and detailed financial information can be conveyed effectively to a wide ranging audience. This is a rapidly moving business where meetings don't happen for meeting's sake, it's about the customer and being ahead of the competition, if strategy or direction needs to change, it does so very quickly.
The assistant management accountant will business partner with central teams across the whole business from IT to Merchandising.
Key responsibilities
Person profile
Package
£30,000 - £33,000 plus excellent benefits
This is an entry opportunity to one of the UK's most established, and continually successful leading fashion retailers as assistant management accountant . The business has benefited from pro-active strategic decisions taken over recent years in several areas including digitisation, e-commerce and technology. Performance has remained strong despite a fluid UK retail market, testament to the long-term focus and investment across the entire organisation, both online and offline.
About the role
This is a critical role supporting the costs and investments team. Due to the main functional stakeholders of this role, is essential to have first class commercial acumen, communication and presentation ability.
The successful candidate will ensure that complex and detailed financial information can be conveyed effectively to a wide ranging audience. This is a rapidly moving business where meetings don't happen for meeting's sake, it's about the customer and being ahead of the competition, if strategy or direction needs to change, it does so very quickly.
The assistant management accountant will business partner with central teams across the whole business from IT to Merchandising.
Key responsibilities
- Ownership of cost reporting and analysis of periodic variances
- Preparation of commentary for departmental heads
- Ownership of key models for multiple central departments
- Support finance business partner to produce periodic reports
- Support finance business partner to identify cost drivers by department
- Preparation of tailored reporting to departmental heads
- Partner with all departments to identify cost savings and operational efficiencies
Person profile
- Studying towards CIMA, ACCA, ACA qualification
- Experience within a fast paced, high volume environment closely linked with retail & consumer markets
- Strong IT skills including advanced excel
- Strong reporting and analytical skills
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Ability to work to tight deadlines in a fast paced environment with ever-changing priorities
Package
£30,000 - £33,000 plus excellent benefits