Working for a great company as one of our Management Accountants in a friendly finance team, you will report into the Head of Finance and ensure support and continual improvement in management reporting and analysis.

The head office is based in Waltham Abbey, with hybrid working (3 days in the office and 2 days working from home).

An extremely exciting role for a progressive accountant to join a growing retail business, which is experiencing large volumes of growth and actively opening new stores.

Responsibilities

• Producing monthly management accounts, including variance analysis and analytical commentary.

• Accruing/Prepaying monthly costs, preparing journals and maintaining schedules.
• Take responsibility for key balance sheet accounts, ensuring reconciliations are undertaken on a periodic basis.
• Support with budgets, forecasts and longer-term financial plans
• Ensure capital expenditure is recorded correctly and in accordance with company procedures.
• Liaise with treasurer to ensure cashflow forecasts are accurate.
• Assist with stock takes, reconcile to the ledger, ensuring stock is accurately reflected in the system and via reporting.
• Manage fixed asset register maintenance (disposals, additions & impairment analysis).
• Assisting with audit by carrying out the required preparatory and analytical work.
• Promoting sound financial management by ensuring compliance with all financial regulations.
• Review accounting processes and practices and improve where necessary.

To carry out this role successfully, you need to be comfortable working within a financial accounting team and therefore understand and support the requirements to operationally implement financial discipline as well as support regular reporting requirements. The role would suit someone who is:

• A Self-starter who can work autonomously with a can-do attitude
• Ability to meet department deadlines
• Previous experience in month end
• Enjoy taking responsibility for your area, but happy to work as part of a team
• Willing to support other areas during busy periods
• Excellent communication skills
• Great attention to detail
• Strong skills with Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Experience with Sage and Jedox is beneficial but not essential

Required Education: Part Qualified* or Qualified accountant

Required Experience: Proven retail industry (multi site) experience gained either directly for a retailer or via a large accountance practice (where comparable multi-site retail experience was gained.)

Rewards

• Competitive salary rewarding skills, experience and qualification level
• Holiday: 25 days per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Generous colleague discount scheme
• Critical Illness benefit of twice the employee’s basic annual salary.
• Life Assurance benefit of twice the employee’s basic annual salary.
• Employees who are not already members of a workplace pension scheme and meet the criteria will be automatically enrolled in the company pension scheme, in line with the government legislation.

About us:

Jollyes is one of the largest chains of Pet Superstores across the UK and Northern Ireland, providing a wide variety of branded pet foods and accessories throughout all our stores. Our strong heritage of over 50 years in the industry has enabled us to grow into a dominant market player today. We currently operate over 90 stores nationwide and plan to open further stores over the next twelve months.