Financial Accountant

at  Penneys

In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:

• Involvement in the preparation and analysis of robust periodic financial and management accounts.
• Assist the Finance Manager in supporting the international finance teams by ensuring payroll accounting adheres to local GAAP and IFRS requirements in all countries in which we operate.
• Support management to ensure governance, mitigate risk & appropriate controls are in place in an ever-increasing regulatory environment.
• Support management and the team in the record to report of Payroll & Reward – payroll record to report is a key area within the financial reporting and wider finance teams given the size of Primark and the number of employees.
• Ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders and key contacts across varying levels across the business.
• Liaising with multiple teams to ensure costs being reported are understood and controlled. These departments include but are not contained to, Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Bank, Accounts Payable, Internal Audit, ICT, P&C and local market teams.

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:

• Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA or Equivalent).
• 2+ years post qualification experience preferred (experience working in or with retail industry an advantage).
• Previous experience working in financial reporting would be desirable.
• Commercial awareness with ability to demonstrate a sound knowledge of wider business factors.
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong financial and analytical acumen (ability to analyse and interrogate high volumes of data as well as demonstrating an ability to focus on higher level overview).
• English is essential and other European languages would be an advantage.
• MS Office including Word, Excel (strong Excel skills are required) and PowerPoint.
• Oracle Financials, Excel4apps and Cognos would be an advantage.

Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours.