RTR FINANCE MANAGER - AMERICAS

Department: FINANCE & OPERATIONS
City: Leeds
Location: GB
At Burberry, we believe creativity opens spaces. Our purpose is to unlock the power of imagination to push boundaries and open new possibilities for our people, our customers and our communities. This is the core belief that has guided Burberry since it was founded in 1856 and is central to how we operate as a company today.
We aim to provide an environment for creative minds from different backgrounds to thrive, bringing a wide range of skills and experiences to everything we do. As a purposeful, values-driven brand, we are committed to being a force for good in the world as well, creating the next generation of sustainable luxury for customers, driving industry change and championing our communities.

JOB PURPOSE

As the RTR Finance Manager - Americas at Burberry, you’ll be overseeing the completion of finance and accounting tasks within the RTR Centre of Excellence for our Americas region, responsible for delivering high quality financial information, compliance and controls. By connecting with stakeholders across the business, you’ll understand commercial priorities and challenges faced to develop solutions, creating new or improving processes to achieve more efficient ways of working.
Alongside this, you’ll manage and lead a brilliant team of Accountants and Senior Accountants in all aspects of the month end process, ensuring resource and skills are allocated effectively while encouraging professional development and a continuous improvement approach.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Managing and leading a high performing team of Accountants and Senior Accountants, ensuring resource levels, capacity and skills are aligned with operational delivery of accounting processes and reporting requirements
• Ensuring compliance with Burberry policies and SLAs, including operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders across the business, anticipating and responding to needs to inform and develop mutually agreeable solutions
• Understanding the wider business priorities and ways of working, using this to drive simplification, standardisation and automation to deliver more effective, efficient and robust ways of working
• Effectively managing change by identifying opportunities aligned with Finance team and wider business objectives, facilitating implementation, monitoring and improving results
• Encouraging issue identification, implementing corrective and preventive action plans to resolve and mitigate problems
• Deputising for the Senior Manager to lead discussions on a broader department level as needed