Own the month-end close process for the UK, German and Polish entities, including review of journals, management of close deadlines, and collation of schedules and supporting reports — working in close partnership with the Global Accounting Team and the Europe Finance Director.
Regularly maintain detailed reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts, including intercompany positions, accruals, and prepayments, ensuring completeness and accuracy at each period end.
Manage the statutory audit processes and lead the preparation of the annual statutory financial statements in accordance with UK GAAP / FRS 102, coordinating with external auditors and functional teams.
Oversight of AR function and ensuring timely collections and aged debt management.
Ensure effective internal controls are in place to support compliance with GAAP and applicable regulatory requirements for financial and fiscal reporting.
Partner with the commercial and operations teams to ensure financial data accurately reflects the economics of the business — including marketplace revenue, marketplace fees, storage costs, and internal operational costs.
Respond to ad-hoc information requests from internal and external stakeholders; exercise sound judgement in addressing or escalating issues as appropriate.
Support unit economics analysis and brand-level profitability reporting, by ensuring the integrity of underlying data flowing into Netsuite.
Relationship with the centralised AP function, ensuring coding accuracy, timely supplier payments, and that the Europe team's needs are well represented.
Support the Finance Director and work directly with the accounting team to ensure accuracy and consistency across all financial outputs.
Identify and implement solutions to streamline and accelerate the month-end close cycle, reducing manual effort and improving reliability.
Support the development of automated and scalable financial processes, working alongside the finance team's data and tooling workstreams, with a focus on improving the control framework and reporting efficiency as the business grows.
Partner with central
Support Global Tax teams in corporation tax calculations and liaising with external tax advisors on planning and compliance matters.
Develop a strong working knowledge of intercompany processes, and how they impact on the European P&Ls.
Review lease accounting and ensure appropriate local GAAP adjustments are recorded for UK GAAP / FRS 102 and German HGB purposes, working closely with Global Accounting.
Requirements
Qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA), ideally Big-4 trained and with post-qualification experience in industry a financial control or similar role.
Prior exposure to ecommerce, marketplace, or consumer goods businesses preferred — comfort with high transaction volumes and revenue recognition.
Experience preparing or managing statutory accounts under UK GAAP / FRS 102; German HGB and IFRS familiarity an advantage.
Experience working with external auditors and managing year-end audit processes.
Exposure to multi-entity or multi-jurisdictional structures.
High attention to detail with a structured, methodical approach to financial control.
Strong analytical capability — comfortable interrogating large datasets and working with finance systems and BI tools.
Confident communicator, able to translate financial information for non-finance stakeholders and manage relationships with external advisors and auditors.
Self-starter with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Collaborative team player who can also work independently and take ownership of complex deliverables.
Curiosity about data, tooling, and process improvement — an interest in how finance teams leverage technology is a genuine advantage in this role.
Benefits
28 days Holiday (increasing to 32 days with each year of service)
Competitive salary
Hybrid working (3 days a week in the office Tues-Thurs)