Superdry Hiring for Junior Management Accountant Job at Cheltenham, England Full Time

We have an opportunity for a Junior Management Accountant to join the team, reporting to the Senior Management Accountant looking after inventory. This will involve dealing with all inventory related adjustments, ensuring accurate reporting around group stock levels and providing stakeholders with financial insight into inventory related movements.

The successful candidate will have an excellent opportunity to progress their career, supporting the senior management accountant in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. They will have experience of management accounting and will be comfortable of working against deadlines, to a high standard. In addition, experience of finance/ERP systems would also be advantageous.

Main Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Management Accountant in providing timely and up to date financials and MI.
• Be responsible for assisting in the delivery of a well understood and explainable result in the area of inventory related costs.
• Support on month-end workflows as required.
• Complete month-end reporting on faulty, quality and legal stock issues.
• Regularly liaise with stores and distribution centres regarding any stock related queries/issues.
• Monitor stock losses in stores and communicate with the retail management team about these results.
• Develop inventory analysis reports and explain variances.
• Ensure that any actions comply with accounting standards and legislative frameworks
• Look for ways to improve current processes to increase business understanding, speed up month-end and enhance controls
• Support the senior management team and peers as required.
• Be able to explain complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders in a clear and engaging way
• Assist with internal and external audit requests to ensure that a clean audit is achieved, thus minimising risk
• Complete ad-hoc projects as required outside of normal duties

The Ideal Candidate

• Currently studying towards an accountancy professional qualification (AAT/ACCA/CIMA)
• Proactive, driven, resilient, and able to work under your own initiative
• Able to hit the ground running, with a positive and driven attitude to make a real difference
• A strong communicator, able to build relationships with the team and cross functional team members
• An advanced excel user
• An exceptionally IT literate individual

About The Company

Superdry have been making world class product for 15 years, and we’re proud of it. Our mission is to inspire and engage the contemporary style obsessed consumer, whilst leaving a positive environmental legacy.

Together, we have built a brand that has cut through the global apparel market at record speed, taking market share from brands that have existed for decades. But we have a big opportunity ahead of us as we launch 4 new collections.

We are now on an exciting journey to reset our brand and return to our design-led roots and we are looking for talented people to join us on our journey.

Package Description

• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and an additional day off to celebrate your Birthday. We also offer a holiday buying scheme.
• Family is massively important to us, so we have a broad range of family-friendly working policies in place, including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Company Pension scheme
• All employees are covered by our Life Assurance policy whilst working at Superdry. We feel it’s important to offer protection for your family and loved ones in such a situation and to support this we offer life assurance cover which pays a lump sum equivalent either twice or four times your annual salary
• A big staff discount – naturally. Because we know that you love to wear Superdry, you’ll benefit from a 50% discount in store and online and our Head Office is home to our very own store for staff only where you can treat yourself to heavily discounted sample stock
• A health cash plan is open to all employees.
• Private Medical cover – a taxable benefit, which managers are eligible to opt in to
• Flexible working – to help you achieve that all-important work-life balance
• We want you to share in our success and so we have a choice of Share Save schemes you can opt into
• A global employee assistance plan in place that you can access anytime you want – it’s free and confidential
• You’ll also have access to a Cycle To Work Scheme and an excellent Car contract hire/purchase scheme along with a massive range of local discounts with businesses across Gloucestershire

At Superdry, everyone has a voice and we want to hear it. We create environments where individuality can flourish and is celebrated as part of who we are as a brand. We’re incredibly proud that over 90% of our people feel strongly that they can be themselves at work.

We want to meet people with varied backgrounds because we understand that diversity of thought encourages new ideas to thrive, fuelling creativity and enabling us to do better work. We want to build a team which represents a variety of backgrounds, styles, perspectives, and skills; we hire people based on their merit and potential.

We also welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Superdry and will always accommodate it where possible.

Please also have a look at our career website. Here you can find information about the Growing Futures Programme, a scheme that supports applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds to apply for roles at our HO in Cheltenham.