Group Financial Accountant

At N brown, we are looking for a Group Financial Accountant to join our group finance team, leading the financial accounting and reporting for the groups three Irish entities.
**As a Group Financial Accountant, your responsibilities will include**:

- Owning and taking responsibility for the timely delivery of the month end close and financial reporting for the main Irish entity (Oxendales).
- Producing monthly Board packs and providing appropriate commentary and analysis of results v budget/forecast.
- Taking responsibility for the collation of the annual budget and quarterly forecasts.
- Acting as a Business Partner and providing support to the Oxendales Board, relevant business owners and the Finance leadership team.
- Taking ownership of the entity Balance Sheet and performance of monthly BS reconciliations.
- Taking ownership of the entity cashflow and management of the entity’s liquidity requirements and assist in decision making over dividend payments.
- Working with the Head of Group finance and Risk manager to design and implement controls across the Irish financial reporting and finance operations, aligning to the rest of the Group.
- Improving and developing the current financial process, system outputs, and value-add across the business.
- Taking responsibility for the production of the statutory accounts of the 3 Irish entities and act as a key contact for the external audit.
- Supporting the Head of Tax with all Corporation tax, VAT and Transfer pricing matters for the Irish business.

**At N Brown, we are looking for a Group Financial Accountant who has the following skills and experiences**:

- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified with post qualification experience.
- Positive, open mindset with good communication skills and leader of change.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate and partner internally with other teams, and support key members of the finance leadership team.
- Strong commercial acumen.
- Attention to detail and pride in what they do. Results oriented.
- Excellent excel skills is a must.
- Experience with Oracle Fusion products preferable but not essential.
- Retail and / or commercial experience preferable, but not essential.

**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 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 sanitising 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 onthe future as we are ALWAYS looking for ways to develop our business and serve our customers better.