Management Accountant - ROI
· Job Title – Management Accountant - ROI
· Location – BL98RR
· Working rota – Monday to Friday
· Working hours – 40 hours
What You'll Be Doing:
As a Management Accountant - ROI, you'll be doing the following:
Financially govern a €220m Revenue generating business with around 25 stores.
Manage a sizeable balance sheet including around €20m of inventory.
Help us close out our statutory accounts audit quicker and be the face of the Deloitte audit for our Irish subsidiaries.
Make a difference by automating or simplifying inefficient parts of our bookkeeping process.
Help us problem solve blockers in speeding up our month end timetable.
Improve our insight into performance, working closely with our commercial finance teams.
What We're Looking For:
- Part Qualified Accountant ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification finalist
- Attention to Detail: A meticulous approach to being able to analyze, account for and explain the story behind a trading retail business end to end, P&L and Balance Sheet.
- Champion of Improvement: We're looking for someone who’s curious and eager to enhance our finance processes, creating lasting positive changes.
- Solution-Oriented: Skilled at spotting challenges and solving them to help us achieve top-tier standards in accounting governance.
- Team Player: Someone willing to work collaboratively across a large business involving multiple departments and reporting lines.
The Company:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.
We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.
To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.
We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:
- Incremental Holiday Allowance
- Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
- Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
- Discounted Gym membership
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
- Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications
Interested?
If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.
Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion
Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.
Thank you again for your time.
What We Do
The Group At A Glance:
Established in 1981 with a single store in Bury, in the North West of England, JD Sports Fashion plc (JD Group) are the leading global multi-channel retailer & distributor of branded and own branded sportswear & fashionwear.
JD Group has a global reach with brands and stores across 19 territories in Europe, North America & Asia Pacific. We are proud to provide our consumers with the latest products from recognised brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face, with strong Own Brand labels such as Pink Soda and Supply & Demand to provide an elevated consumer experience.
JD Group continue to lead the way with successful subsidiaries, including Size?, The Hip Store, Go Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, as well as International Retailers, Sprinter (Spain), Sport Zone as well as JD Finish Line.
Our C:ulture
We inspire our people to reach for higher levels of performance. To achieve these standards, we only recruit the best! All employees are highly skilled, self motivated and in constant pursuit of perfection. Opportunities to progress arise quickly for those people with the right qualities and ambition.
We encourage our people to constantly seek ways to improve our business. This means challenging the way we merchandise, sell and manage the business, being creative and forward thinking in suggesting alternative solutions. Problems are solved and opportunities are seized by people from all levels of the organisation working together.
JD Sports Fashion HQ is situated in Bury, Greater Manchester. JD Sports also have our global Distribution Centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester & its highly decorative Creative Studio in Manchester City Centre
