Assistant Management Accountant - Mat cover

Mountain Warehouse; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Description
Overview

Position summary:

This role is focused towards our eCommerce business, which is a high growth, international operation that significantly contributes to total group revenue via direct-to-consumer websites, third party marketplaces and digital concessions.

This role provides key support to the Finance Business Partner for Online who has overall responsibility for business partnering, periodic reporting and financial accounting and control.

What you'll be doing

1. Month end
   • Prepare and post period end journal entries ensuring accurate recording of all costs in a timely manner.
   • Complete robust balance sheet reconciliations to agreed deadlines with all reconciling items investigated and resolved promptly.
   • Investigate and prepare narrative explaining variances to budget and prior year for key expense categories.
   • Support the Finance Business Partner with the preparation of reporting to communicate performance to the management team.
2. Business Partnering
   • Identify drivers of overspend, prepare ad hoc analysis and develop recommendations to reduce financial risk.
   • Development and mature stakeholder relationships across the E-Commerce team.
   • Support the budget and forecast process, liaising closely with the Commercial Finance team.
3. Compliance and controls
   • Significant involvement in the year-end process, preparation of deliverables for the audit and key contact for the auditors during the audit process.
   • Support the development of a robust control environment by continuously identifying opportunities to improve financial systems and processes and implementing these changes.
4. Other
   • Ongoing non-business-as-usual project work within the finance team as and when required.

We'd love to meet someone who has

• Minimum 3 years experience working within a Finance team in a high-volume environment.
• Started studying towards an accountancy qualification (ACCA / CIMA / ACA etc).
• Enthusiasm, self-motivation and a desire to drive improvements in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial business.
• Excellent numeracy and IT skills including advanced Excel with a strong attention to detail.
• High-quality communication and relationship building skills.
• Retail industry experience is preferable.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Holiday allowance
• 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
• Pension scheme

In 1997, we launched Mountain Warehouse to make the outdoors accessible to everyone by offering value for money product and exemplary customer service. The outdoor industry had become very jargon heavy and we wanted to create a brand that would cater to our mothers and our neighbour's kids as well as seasoned professionals who understood the technology. Our expansion since then has seen the brand grow and the product evolve, but the small family business that makes MW special has remained. Great product is at the heart of everything we do. As we expand internationally we employ a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our range through its paces. Welcome to our journey.