This is an exciting opportunity to join a global, well established, retail brand on a permanent basis as a Financial Accountant.
Offering lots of flexibility and growth opportunities, this is an exciting role for any qualified accountants in the North West Area that are newly qualified from practice or industry qualified within a fast-paced sector.
Client Details
A well-known brand within the retail sector who are looking to recruit a Financial Accountant on a permanent basis. Working with large scale, international retailers, this organisation has lots of growth on the horizon making it a really exciting place to be for someone who's looking for their next step in the finance world.
Putting job satisfaction and work/life balance at the forefront of everything they do, they are known for having a real positive working culture and are looking for the right person to add to that within this role!
Description
As a Financial Accountant with responsibilities than span the EMEA regions, you will be expected to manage several stakeholder relationships whilst looking after a broad range of financial accounting activities including; Accounting & Compliance, VAT & Interest work, Fixed Assets, Payroll Accounting etc.
Process improvement is also a key area of the position and you will be expected to streamline processes across EMEA to improve the way things are done and the controls around them. You will have responsibility for different legal entities outside of the UK.
Profile
The successful candidate will ideally have come from a Management Accountant/ Financial Accountant background. You will have either ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA and the preference would be some industry experience too. That being said, my client will consider someone who comes from a practice background.
You will have experience in successfully managing relationships with different stakeholders; if you have done so on an international basis, that's even better. It is imperative that you are comfortable picking up the phone and having difficult conversations.
Whilst it isn't essential, if you have VAT compliance experience this is a huge bonus for my client- ideally having done VAT returns for different countries with their own VAT rules.
Job Offer
- Competitive salary
- Discretionary Bonus Opportunity
- Private Medical Insurance
- Dental Scheme
- Pension Scheme
- Flexible Working Hours (07:00 - 10:00 start, 15:00 -18:00 finish)
- Hybrid working (3 days on-site)
- 25 days Annual Leave per year
- Life Insurance
- On Site Gym
- Employee Discount
- Opportunity to work abroad for four weeks per year
- Well being and Mental Health Benefit (24/7 Employment Assistance Program & Support).