Group Technical and Reporting Accountant

The Role:

You will be a member of the group finance team and you will report to the Group Technical Manager and lead the financial accounting and reporting of all Intangible and Tangible assets of the group.

Additional responsibilities include:

*        Responsibility for maintenance of the fixed asset register within Cloud Financials, including month end postings, reflecting additions & disposals, and performing reconciliation between the general ledger and FA module

*        Preparation of depreciation/amortisation forecasts

*        Proactive review of new project business cases, prior to submission to the New Ideas Forum and Investment Review Committee,  preparing a summary of key considerations to facilitate approval of capital expenditure in line with IAS 38 capitalisation criteria

*        Partnering and running meetings with project managers to understand activities  undertaken on projects and performing an analysis and allocation of project spend into capital or operating expenditure

*        Attendance at Monthly tribe meetings to build understanding of the projects in progress and of costs being incurred to enable Group Finance to advise on capitalisation considerations

*        Monitoring tech development essentials / agile codes on a quarterly basis to understand activities being undertaken and consult on the appropriate split between capital and operating expenses

*        Quarterly review of all capitalised Project costs for that period to ensure these are compliant with the Group’s accounting policy, and in line with capitalisation criteria under IAS 38

*        Review of projects with the PMO team and ensuring any reaching stage of completion or where assets are ready for use, their useful economic life is assessed and these are capitalised and depreciated in a timely manner  assessing the useful economic life to be applied

*        Maintenance of the mapping of project codes to overarching “systems” for existing and new additions to ensure an up to date full picture of the systems architecture & cost

*        Maintaining leased assets and the relevant accounting under IFRS 16, including additions/disposals, accounting for any store settlements / exits and preparing monthly lease postings and reconciliations of lease accounting codes

What we’re looking for:

*        Positive and open mindset;

*        Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate and partner internally with tech and IT squads, and support key members of the finance team;

*        Attention to detail and pride in what they do;

*        Good technical experience and financial reporting skills;

*        Experience of working in a best practice control environment and clearly understands what good looks like;

*        Excellent excel skills;

Our benefits:

*        A competitive salary (DOE) plus benefits

*        Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution

*        Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance

*        Annual bonus scheme

*        Incredible colleague discount across all our N Brown Group brands (Simply Be, Jacamo, JD Williams, Home Essentials, Ambrose Wilson to name a few).

*        Local restaurant discounts across Manchester’s Northern Quarter

*        24 days annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 over the year

*        Hybrid working, enabling you to work from home or office (at a frequency agreed with your line manager) and staggered start times. We know these are different times and have embraced them to ensure our colleagues are supported.

*        A Manchester City Centre office base, socially distanced workstations and sanitizing stations around the business

*        Great tech to enable you to not only make doing your job easy but to also allow you to work from anywhere with a great WIFI connection

*        Onsite café at great subsidised rates

Who are we:

Here at N Brown we serve our customers through distinct brands; we are experienced, gained from over 160 years of trading; Inclusive as we believe in fashion without boundaries; sustainable as we strive to make as little impact on the planet and focused on the future as we are ALWAYS looking for ways to develop our business and serve our customers better.

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Employees in our business may have access to our customers’ personal data therefore for a number of our roles, offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory criminal record check; having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an individual from obtaining a position with JD Williams