Location
Hybrid: 1-2 days in our support centre
Why The Works?
We don't just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play.
You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family member's memory.
You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories.
The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you.
Become an Interim Financial Accountant
An exciting opportunity is available for an Interim Financial Accountant to join the finance team on an initial 6-month basis to support the team through its annual reporting process, month end and to contribute to a number of process improvement projects to enhance the quality and efficiency of the group's financial reporting environment.
The role will report directly to the Financial Reporting Manager but with dotted lines to the Financial Process Controller and Interim Financial Consultant.
Your Mission
- Support month end accounting, posting journals and preparing balance sheet reconciliations.
- Ensure provision of high quality, timely and consistent monthly reporting to management.
- Review and follow-up of issues identified during monthly management accounts reviews, including identification and resolution of potential issues or exposures.
- Become a key member of the financial reporting team ensuring adherence to IFRS accounting standards, maintenance and development of accounting policies and providing accounting advice to the business to ensure compliance.
- Assist in the preparation of key accounting judgement papers.
- Provide financial information to external tax advisors and assist with reviews of corporation tax computations for the Group and subsidiaries.
- Work with the commercial finance team to assist with the preparation of, and performance monitoring against annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.
- Support in the annual reporting process to include
- Preparation of consolidated IFRS group accounts and UK statutory accounts for subsidiary companies.
- Liaison with the Group's auditors
- Work with Financial Reporting Managers to draft subsidiary financial statements.
- Working with the Financial Reporting and Financial Processing teams, support a culture of continuous improvement, identifying process and controls improvements. Examples include:
- Assist in the enhancement of oversight of the group balance sheet and the development of regular CFO reporting.
- Support progressing process enhancement over the group's property balance sheet.
- Work with our external provider to own the group's utilities process to enhance the accuracy, timeliness and predictability of billing.
- Work with the team's Internal Control Analyst to enhance the group's stock processes.
- Build out the group's process, control and policy around capex.
- Advance the group's control agenda through control identification, documentation and operational testing.
- Prepare and complete national statistics surveys.
Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart
- Essential: Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
- Strong all around accounting experience including external audit and financial control.
- Experience of IFRS and external reporting requirements. Experience with lease accounting, inventory and hedging would be advantageous.
- Experience and knowledge in dealing with technical accounting queries.
- Ability to take complex accounting principles and simplify them into clear written and verbal communication.
- Computer literate, with good Excel skills.
- Attention to detail is essential.
- Self-confident with strong interpersonal skills, able to communicate at all levels within the organisation as well as with external parties.
- A strong self-starter with the desire to learn and ambition to progress further.
- An audit background is desirable, this is a perfect role for a first time move from practice.
- Retail industry experience is an advantage but not essential.
Our PERKS really are ‘The Works'
- 25% Colleague Discount! - Plus, exclusive Double Discount days!
- MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more!
- Holiday – 33 days including bank holidays.
- Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days
- Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you.
- Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them – for when ‘life' happens!
- Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works!
- 24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
- Healthcare Cash Plan – To support your everyday healthcare costs
- And loads more! – Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving.
Our Purpose
To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled.
Our Values
We are Crafty | We are Caring | We are Can-do
We Listen. We Care
Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what's going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you've ever worked! You'll have opportunity to help give us that direction.
Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments
At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ+ community (incl