Head of Accounting and Reporting

About The Role

TFG London is an ambitious and forward-thinking Retail Group. You might not know our name directly, but you're sure to recognise our iconic brands: Phase Eight, Whistles, Hobbs, and Inside Story. We've grown to operate across the UK and in eight other international destinations, and we're incredibly excited about our future, which includes expanding our current fashion, lifestyle and homeware brands and bringing new ones into our portfolio.

Our success is all thanks to our amazing people and we are looking to appoint a Head of Accounting and Reporting to mentor and manager the Management Accounts team and support the continued growth of the business. You will ensure that we are in the position to achieve our medium and long term growth objectives.

What you'll be Doing:

Your duties and responsibilities as Head of Accounting and Reporting will include:

Own the delivery of month end reporting adhering to deadlines, within the agreed reporting control frameworks. Areas of focus will include:
- Revenue and margin
- Stockholding costs
- Marketing expenditure
- Store portfolio costs
- Payroll costs
- Other admin & general expenditure

Responsible for maintaining and ensuring the accuracy of the information in the accounting system (Sunsystems). This includes:

Preparing and presenting timely and accurate cost centre and other financial analysis to budget holders and senior management highlighting key trends, variances, and insights and performance against KPI metrics
ensuring balance sheet alignment across cost centres and business units
managing the complexity reporting and reconciling across a multi-channel; multi-brand; multinational group

Store profitability reporting - analysing store level performance and highlighting performance against KPIs, key cost drivers, recommending cost-saving initiatives, and ensuring efficient resource allocation
Work collaboratively with the Commercial Finance team to provide analysis in performance against budgets and forecasts; as well as collaborating in the continual feedback loop that is critical in the development of budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans
Collaborating with the wider finance team to deliver and meet reporting deadlines including external audit, statutory reporting sign offs and tax compliance
On going process improvement, including

Challenging existing ways of working and identifying opportunities to streamline and improve management accounting processes and systems
Process and report automation – where teams are carrying out repetitive and unnecessarily manual tasks, to drive time savings and efficiencies

What you'll need:

To be successful as our Head of Accounting and Reporting you will have the following skills and experience:

CIMA / ACCA / ACA qualified with evidenced growth and development beyond this
Experience working in a finance team for a retail / consumer product business preferred
Strong financial acumen and commercial awareness
Strategic thinker and problem solver – able to think outside the box
Experience in successfully building, leading and managing teams
Ability to manage and influence stakeholders

What's in it for you:

In return we offer a competitive salary and benefits including:

Staff Discount
Discounts across your favourite brands
Virtual GP Service
Virtual Wellbeing and Counselling Service
Financial Wellbeing Support
Early Pay through Access Early Pay

About You

TFG London is a fast growing retail group. We Care, We Connect, We Collaborate and We Create. We have four brands in our portfolio; our iconic fashion brands Phase Eight, Whistles and Hobbs as well as our luxury Homewares brand Inside Story. We aren’t stopping there though, we have plans to grow beyond this in multiple retail sectors. This can’t happen without the input of great people though and we are committed to creating a friendly and inclusive environment where you can do your best work and grow and develop along with us.

TFG London Inclusion and Diversity statement of commitment: At TFG London and across all our brands we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes, develops and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, cultural references and ideas and opinions within our business.

We are working together to ensure our environment is one where difference is not only respected but encouraged and celebrated and people can bring their authentic, unique selves to work, where their contribution is valued, ability enhanced, and perspective appreciated.

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