Finance Manager

Finance at Primark

What’s a career at Primark all about? The positive impact you’re making, the experiences you’re having and the people you’re with. You’re our inspiration. Embrace what sets you apart, own your career and develop in ways you never expected. Leave your mark. And do it your way.

What You’ll Get

People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best.Let’s talk lifestyle: Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.

What You’ll Do as a Finance Manager, Balance Sheet Reconciliations and Controls

Contribute to the continued development of techniques and the improvement of processes and workflow for the function, delivering a quality & timely service. In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:

• Overall responsibility for Reconciliations Process across 17 markets & growing.
• Contributes to risk assessments and drives actions to address the root causes that persistently lead to operational risk losses by challenging both historical and proposed practices.
• Evaluates the current set of in-scope Reconciliations & Controls, recommending ways to optimize & further automate.
• Ensure effectiveness of own team and other closely related teams with a quality and timeliness of service provided.
• Continuous review & evolvement of outputs, together with effective reconciliations, ensuring appropriateness of controls in line with business requirements
• Coordinates audits, examinations, and deliverable requirements from internal and external reviewers by supporting coordinating activities within the team.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with internal & external customers and stakeholders through strong business partnering
• Manage team responsible for Balance Sheet Reconciliations
• Coach and develop individual team members
• Break down information in a systematic and communicable manner
• Escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

What You’ll Bring

Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:

• An experienced accounting professional (ACA/ACCA/CIMA /CPA) 6 Years + who has worked in a rapidly growing environment and can bring experience of best practice gained including solid Accounting, Financial reporting and IFRS understanding.
• Excellent technology knowledge and experience with balance sheet reconciliation processes & implementations.
• In depth knowledge & experience in Oracle Financials & Excel.
• Proven track record of managing within shared service type environment and delivering improvement to operating processes and practices.
• Ability to lead, develop and motivate high-performance individuals & team.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation.
• Pro-active about managing change and challenging existing procedures and processes to achieve best practice
• Provide subject matter expertise to business-driven initiatives, internal partners, leadership or projects related to operations as necessary.

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