SUMMARY

Job Reference: 253593BR
Nottingham Support Office
Permanent
37.5 Hours

ABOUT THE ROLE

A fantastic opportunity to join the Boots & No.7 Beauty Company Financial Controls team as Head of Finance, Technical Accounting and Projects. This role is key in driving accounting quality and change into an ever-evolving financial reporting landscape, under both IFRS and US GAAP.
Providing technical accounting oversight and advice to a wide range of stakeholders across the wider Boots business, including UK, ROI, Opticians and No.7 BC, and working in partnership with the Corporate Technical Accounting teams, this role provides great exposure to a variety of key business plans and projects.
As a member of the Extended Finance Leadership Team and part of the Controllership Leadership Team, you will lead the technical accounting processes for the wider Boots business, acting as an advisor to the wider finance team and other partners on a variety of projects and tasks, ensuring appropriate accounting decisions are made and other partners (Corporate Accounting, Tax and Co Sec) are engaged. You will be responsible for the mentoring and development of the Finance Manager, Technical Accounting, with the opportunity to be involved in other Finance initiatives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead our technical accounting processes including impairment reviews, pensions, IFRS16 and other key technical accounting area;
• Provide technical accounting review and direction for business transactions including acquisitions, re-organisations, new business ventures and investment projects;
• Working with the wider finance position, corporate teams, tax and business stakeholders, bringing a technical accounting and controls lens to programs;
• Approval and documentation of accounting judgements and estimates and development of the supporting processes to ensure robustness of controls;
• Lead the implementation of new accounting standards or changes into the business;
• Being accounting expertise to assist the monthly, quarterly, and annual close and reporting processes;
• Support the Finance Leadership Team in developing an excellent finance team through training;
• Support, develop and mentoring of the Finance Manager, Technical Accounting;
• Manage review and agreement of technical accounting areas with internal and external auditors along with the wider WBA business;
• Provide support and leadership around the year-end and interim audits, supporting co-ordination of audit deliverables and support with the co-ordination, preparation and review of the statutory accounts;
• Support and leadership through any system development to ensure all changes made follow Group accounting policies and accounting standards;
• Providing support to the Financial Controller with any ad-hoc tasks or projects.

These are the essential experience needed to succeed in this role.

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA), with 3+ years’ post-qualification experience;
• Strong and up-to-date technical accounting skills with a good understanding of both US GAAP and IFRS;
• ability to explain technical accounting concepts to a variety of finance and non-finance partners;
• A strong team player with excellent stakeholder management skills to convey the message across the business and externally;
• Ability to deliver within tight deadlines and manage a diverse workload;
• Highly collaborative and external looking to influence outcomes to ensure business compliance with accounting policy and standards;
• A strong drive for self-development and growth, remaining up to date on any accounting changes, with the desire to share knowledge in order to develop others