Overview
This role provides key support to the Finance Manager: Supply Chain who has responsibility for periodic reporting, financial processes and control and providing financial challenge, support and insight to the Supply Chain team on their result.
As part of a sub-team of 3 you will have ownership of Supply Chain. This is a significant area of focus within our business with a budget of c.£50m. The scope includes 3 outsourced distribution centres in the UK and overseas and distribution to stores and ecommerce customers.
What you'll be doing
Month end
- Prepare and post period end journal entries ensuring accurate recording of all costs in a timely manner.
- Complete robust balance sheet reconciliations to agreed deadlines with all reconciling items investigated and resolved promptly.
- Investigating and prepare narrative explaining variances to budget and prior year for key expense categories.
- Supporting the Finance Manager: Supply Chain with the preparation of reporting to communicate performance to the management team.
Business Partnering
- Production of a weekly suite of reporting covering all Supply Chain costs to provide accurate information and enable timely decision making.
- Capture and accurately code supplier costs and metrics on a weekly basis to provide the basis for weekly and periodic reporting.
- Identify drivers of overspend, prepare ad hoc analysis and develop recommendations to reduce finance risk.
- Develop and mature stakeholder relationships across the Supply Chain team.
- Support the budgeting and forecast process.
Compliance and Controls
- Significant involvement in the year-end process, preparation of deliverables for the audit and key contact for the auditors during the audit process.
- Support the development of a robust control environment by continuously identifying opportunities to improve financial systems and processes and by implementing these changes.
Other
- Ongoing non-business as usual project work within the finance team as and when required.
This progressive role would suit someone studying towards an accountancy qualification and offers the opportunity for the right individual to advance into a qualified Management Accountant role in due course.
We'd love to meet someone with
- Minimum 3 years experience working within a Finance team in a high-volume environment.
- Retail or Supply Chain industry experience advantageous.
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated and a desire to drive improvements in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial business.
- Excellent numeracy and IT skills including advanced Excel with a strong attention to detail.
- Comfortable working with high volumes of data to identify trends or errors.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Holiday allowance
- 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
- Pension scheme
In 1997, we launched Mountain Warehouse to make the outdoors accessible to everyone by offering value for money product and exemplary customer service.
The outdoor industry had become very jargon heavy and we wanted to create a brand that would cater to our mothers and our neighbour’s kids as well as seasoned professionals who understood the technology.
Our expansion since then has seen the brand grow and the product evolve, but the small family business that makes MW special has remained. Great product is at the heart of everything we do.
As we expand internationally we employ a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our range through its paces.
Welcome to our journey.