Finance Reporting Manager - Europe in Bury

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world. JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally. We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Role Overview

This position is a key role within the Europe Reporting Team and the overall JD Finance Team. As a Finance Manager, your responsibilities will be the production of a robust set of management accounts for Italy with P&L and balance sheet analysis to allow management review. The role will be responsible for the production of the statutory accounts in line with local GAAP and managing the external audit to completion. The role will manage a team of three to deliver to group deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the production of the monthly P&Ls and Balance Sheet, understanding variances and trends.
• Production of monthly reporting packs with analysis and commentary, presenting these to the Head of Reporting and Commercial Finance, and Retail Teams.
• Responsibility for the monthly balance sheet reconciliation with sign off on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Production of balance sheet and cashflow pack with KPI summary.
• Continual review of processes including purchase ledger, banking and trade receivables and ensuring relevant controls are in place.
• Production of reporting to feed into the monthly Group Board Pack.
• Responsibility for the half year and year end provision calculations.
• Responsible for the region’s submission into the group half year and year end statutory reporting.
• Responsibility of other statutory reporting including national statistics, intra stat and fiscal reporting.
• Cashflow management and forecasting.
• Key point of contact for the region with AP, AR and treasury teams.
• Planning, managing and completing the year end audits.
• Production of the annual statutory accounts in line with local GAAPs including the annual management report.
• Responsible for annual filing of company accounts.
• Main local point of contact for VAT and Tax submissions, queries and audits.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed

• CIMA / ACCA / ACA Qualified Accountant.
• Advanced Excel skills, TM1/IBM experience not essential but an advantage.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Positive, flexible, enthusiastic and driven.

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff discount on JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.