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As Ireland’s most dynamic and progressive sports retailer, Life Style Sports inspires and empowers the Stylised Athlete across the whole island, through our best-in-class omnichannel customer experience curating the very best performance and sports inspired fashion ranges from the worlds leading brands such as Nike, adidas, ON Running, Castore, New Balance, Puma, Asics, 4TH ARQ, Under Armour and Monterrain.
Our modern Brand Centre (“BC”) sits in the heart of Dublin city above our flagship store at 40 Mary St., Dublin 1 for seamless collaboration between BC and our stores teams.
Our carbon-neutral Fulfilment Campus (“FC”) (warehouse) in Rathcoole, Co. Dublin leads the way as the first in Ireland with an automated warehouse solution fuelling 96 robots across 100,000ft2 in a state-of-the-art warehouse and logistics facility.
Supported by over 650 team members across 39 stores, and a BC based Buying & Merch, Marketing and eCommerce team, we have a strong brand proposition that is endorsed by the world’s leading brands with very clearly defined and distinct product concepts (Boot Room for football, rugby and GAA; Women’s Studio; Trainer Central for men’s sports inspired fashion apparel and footwear; Faster Stronger for men’s performance apparel and footwear; and Kids).
Life Style Sports is a key strategic EMEA partner with all leading global brands and also exclusive retail partner with Munster Rugby.
Our team culture is encapsulated through our three core Brand Values that have stood the test of time and guide everything we do: Social, Inspirational & Fearless.
These Brand Values drive into every aspect of our business, whether that's guiding the direction of our brand strategy, making investment decisions, driving our product engines or building our immensely creative, agile, ambitious and engaged teams across BC and stores.
They are one of the many reasons we've been voted one of the Best Employers in Ireland every year by the Sunday Independent!
Role Summary:
We are looking to recruit a Senior Financial Accountant to join our Finance team reporting directly to the Head of Finance and Business Insights. You will play an important role in our finance team in a senior position with responsibility for monthly accounts, cashflow management and business partnering with the wider team.
Role is a hybrid working role – 3 days in the office to promote teamwork and cross departmental collaboration and 2 days working from home.
Role Responsibilities:
* Assist with production of monthly management accounts packs within 10 working days with responsibility for specific areas of the P&L and Balance Sheet;
* Prepare monthly departmental cost analyses and lead monthly department head cost reviews, focussed on business partnering to drive performance improvement;
* Work closely with commercial and operational teams on reporting and providing finance support to departments across the business;
* Work closely with Head of Finance & Business Insights on cross functional projects;
* Work with the Senior Team on annual budget and quarterly forecast submissions;
* Involvement in the year-end statutory audit with specific responsibility for specific areas of the main trading companies;
* Prepare weekly cashflow forecasts and liaise with Merchandising team on stock intake and Accounts Payable on cash ouflows;
* Assist with monthly payroll processing and reviews;
* Assist with Revenue preparations/submissions – VAT, PAYE, Intrastat, VIES
* Work with Supply Chain and Operations team on stock management including support with stocktakes, cycle counts and adjustment or store stock;
* Support Loss Prevention team with analysis and dashboard insights;
* Ownership of 3PL profit and loss accounts at a customer level;
* Ownership of month end balance sheet reconciliations for specific areas;
* Continuous improvement of finance processes focusing on efficiency gains and enhancements to be derived from the new ERP system.
Technical Skills and Experience:
* Qualified Accountant with at least 3-4 years post qualification experience;
* Experience working in a commercial finance or operational finance role within a FMCG, retail, manufacturing or distribution environment a distinct advantage;
* Strong technical accounting skills with up to date knowledge of relevant IFRS standards;
* Strong appreciation of a robust framework of internal controls and reconciliations;
* Advanced excel user and strong system skills required.
About you:
* The successful individual must be capable of working in a focused, committed, diligent and professional manner, overcoming challenges to deliver high quality results. They need to consistently deliver accurate and relevant information against important business deadlines while maintaining a system of strong internal financial controls.
* We require the successful candidate to be a team player with a positive, can-do attitude and the ability to be ‘hands on’.
* We require an individual who is highly organized, structured, with clarity of focus and with the ability to multi-task while performing under pressure in a fast paced environment.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Finance
* Industries
Retail
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