Commercial Accountant - Financial Reporting
The Very Group, United Kingdom

We’re The Very Group, home to Very.co.uk, Littlewoods.com and a team of 4,000 super-talented people.

We’re the UK’s largest integrated digital retailer and financial services provider, and we’ve been helping customers say yes when it matters most for over 100 years. In that time, we’ve consistently reinvented our business to adapt to economic conditions and industry changes going from bricks, to clicks, to mobile.

But despite our passion for reinvention, we’ve never wavered from our purpose; to make good things easily accessible to more people. It means giving our customers the brands they love, an outstanding shopping experience and flexible ways to spread the cost.

We’ve continued to deliver for our customers throughout the Covid-19 outbreak and we’ve done it by transforming the way we work.

We’re fired up for the future and the next stage in our development. We’ll give customers access to more great brands for themselves and their families, a seamless shopping experience and even more control of their finances through innovation in flexible ways to pay.

Ready to reinvent? Get in touch.

The finance function seeks to create and protect the future of the company. And it is being reinvented.

We aim to create a new way of doing finance inspired by the agile digital philosophy and grounded in the approach of squads and tribes. We want the Very way of doing finance to be the new normal. We’re excited by the level of change this will involve.

To achieve this aim we need to attract diverse talent into the team. People with passion, ambition, a preference for the innovative, team builders, and relationship creators. We’re fans of people who love to learn (and fail).

As a Commercial Accountant, you will work within the FS Finance Reporting team to provide a point of contact for all financial aspects of FS Reporting; management reporting, regulatory reporting and statutory reporting.

Key Responsibilities: Financial Control amp; Risk Management.

• As a key Finance contact for all areas of the financial performance reporting within FS, you will understand the depth amp; breadth of the performance results.

• You must ensure accurate and robust management reporting for the FS business. This includes the provision of information, insight and production of the Group Performance Report (GPR), SDFC Board and Executive Committee packs, shareholder info, balanced scorecards, Quarterly Packs and ad hoc requests. Stakeholders include senior management team, FS teams, group planning, group finance and decision support.

• You will highlight risks, opportunities and trends and confidently communicate emerging issues to key stakeholders, making a strong contribution to the team. You will work alongside the FS Planning and Business Partnering teams to understand the future impact of these trends and support decision making.

• You will work closely with finance stakeholders to ensure that the flash performance is clearly communicated through the reporting and correlates with the decision support view of key areas. This should also reference the monthly forecast positioning through working with the planning team.

• You will be an integral part of the statutory reporting for FS and will be involved in the FS annual audits and interim audits, including the assessment of the Prepared By Client (PBC) listings alongside Group Finance. This also covers the UK element of the Douglas business.

In order to hit the ground running in this role we expect that you are:

• An accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).

• Experience of reporting complex financial information to a wide range of stakeholders.

• Strong relationship building and stakeholder management skills liaising across the business.

• Team player that demonstrates the company values consistently.

• Great communicator with excellent influencing and persuasive skills.

• You’ll possess the confidence necessary to work with a wide variety of stakeholders and use your technical knowledge to develop pragmatic and valuable reporting amp; control environment.

• Experience of using and understanding complex financial models and able to effectively interpret, interrogate and communicate any results and underlying data.

• 1,000 flexible benefits allowance
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible working culture
• Onsite gym
• 25% discount on our Very.co.uk clothing,footwear and home and 15% off electricals
• Health and wellbeing agenda
• Bonus Potential (company amp; personal performance-related)
• Private pension matched at 6%
• Cycle to work scheme

If you're interested to find out more please contact the talent acquisition tea

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