Finance Analyst (Property & Retail)

We are now looking for a Financial Analyst - Property & Retail to join our Commercial Finance team.You will provide insightful reporting, budgeting and forecasting for UK retail stores including accounting for store costs. This role also involves working with the Retail and Property team to drive profitability and manage the store cost base. What will you do as a Finance Analyst (Property & Retail)? Period/Year End, Reporting and Controls:

• Assist in accounting for Retail Property costs for month/year end actuals, by posting journals and ensuring all costs are properly accounted for
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Updating analysis for the monthly board pack providing detailed commentary on key variances.
• Highlighting any risks and opportunities.
Cashflow
• Preparation of rent payments due based on store turnover or fixed contracts.
• Monthly update of occupancy costs in the cash flow forecast.
Budget, Forecasting & Longer-Term Planning:
• Assist the Finance Manager in the budgeting and forecasting processes for stores providing support and guidance to teams and ensuring all assumptions are appropriately challenged.
• Updating and maintaining complex models on store costs including store wage model.
• Compiling budget/forecast summaries and communicating outcomes to senior management
• Support the Retail Finance Manager to determine assumptions for budgets and forecasts.
Rolling forecast
• Updating a rolling forecast to assess store profitability.
• Preparing appropriate summaries to clearly communicate updated view to senior management to aid decision making for the store portfolio.
Ad Hoc:
• Supporting Finance Manager with general requests
• Provision of Ad Hoc analysis and process improvements as required.
  
  Part qualified accountant or interest in pursuing accounting qualification (CIMA, ACA or ACCA)
• Proactive, positive, resilient, and adaptable team player who is driven to make a difference.
• Attention to detail.
• · Intermediate Excel skills and comfort with IT systems, with the ability to work through large amounts of data
• Working well under pressure and meeting various deadlines.
• Able to work in fast paced retail environment with changing conditions.
• Excellent communication skills- ability to articulate detailed information in an easy-to-understand manner.
• 1-2 years experience in month end, forecasting and budgeting processes.
• Interest in Retail/Fashion environment.
• Desired
• Experience working within Fashion Retail environment, especially multi-site.
• Experience using reporting systems (CODA and Cognos)
  
  Competitive salary
• 23 days holiday with the option to purchase additional holiday through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Bonus day off each year after 6 months service
• A pension that you will be automatically be enrolled in after 3 months
• Life assurance (subject to participating in the pension scheme)
• A flexible working approach
• Early pay day Friday finish
• A generous staff discount with up to 50% discount on our products
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounted gym membership at our on campus gym
• Additional discounts such as Westfield discount, Taste card membership etc
If this all sounds great and you feel you are who we are looking for, let us know and apply today. At Monsoon Accessorize we don't focus only on what we do, we also care about how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and an environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people and are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will also consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.