Financial Controller

• Manage team to prepare monthly accounts with commentary on a timely basis enabling department managers to make and review commercial decisions taken

• Investigate all material variances, proactively highlighting the impact these have on the business

• Work with sales channel owners to deliver value added analysis, insight into business performance and improvement to support in driving the group's profitability

• Work with merchandising to ensure stock is controlled and reported correctly

• Produce analytical commentary on monthly accounts for the Board of Directors

• Business partnering and support in order to assist in understanding of monthly management accounts and to increase accuracy

• Ensure key reconciliations are completed on a monthly basis (sales, margin, balance sheet, cash, etc.)

• Review all reconciliations performed by the team and lead investigations into any areas of uncertainty

• Ensure accuracy of the books (by nominal account and cost centre)

• Ensure strong controls are in place, in particular for stock, cash, A/P, A/R and payroll

Year End Process and Statutory Reporting:

• Work with retail operations to manage the year end stock take process

• Manage the interim and year end audit process

• Manage the year end process, producing full sets of UK statutory accounts for the group and various subsidiaries

Budgeting and Forecasting:

• Coordinate and prepare the annual budget and reforecasts including P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow. This will involve planning the timetable, coordinating inputs from the business and taking responsibility for updating budget models.
• Prepare packs for the CFO and FD to explain budget variances. Contribute to board packs on all planning cycles.
• Analyse risks and opportunities in weekly sales and margin results compared to budget/forecast
• Assist with other forecasting needs within the business including scenario analysis, adding value in decision making, and building of financial models for business initiatives
• Build commercial models to aid decision making, eg around new stores or offering free delivery

Other Requirements

• Oversee production of other management reporting (e.g. daily sales, weekly sales and KPIs, other ad hoc analysis)
• Review all VAT and sales tax processes, including UK, EU and US.
• Ensure tax reconciliations are correct

• Qualified Accountant ACA - preferred but open to ACCA & CIMA
• Big 4 background - desirable but not essential
• Retail and E-Commerce Commercial experience (Essential)
• Stakeholder Management - Manage and influence stakeholders
• Franchise experience - highly desirable
• Multi-site and multi-departmental experience preferred
• Advanced Excel Skills
• Business Partnering - Cross functional experience, partnering to develop and align reporting, KPIs & analysis (Excellent)
• An expert communicator and confident explaining complicated models to non-finance people