Accounting Manager - Accounting Services

About the Role

The accounting manager is the custodian of general ledger for the Group's retail businesses. This includes ensuring financial integrity and acting as the bridge between Endeavour's onshore Business Units and the offshore team, ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of core Record to Report activities.

This role is integral to enabling the transition and standing up of Retail accounting processes in the offshore team and jointly enabling a successful implementation of a new SAP ERP. Long term, the accounting manager is responsible for providing direction and oversight of the offshore accounting team, championing and enabling the improvement and transformation agenda as part of transitioning to a centralised accounting team for the Group.

Sound good? Read on.

• Stakeholder Management
  • Drive Business Partnerships:
    Cultivate strong business partnerships with Retail Business Unit teams, including FP&A, Commercial Finance, Operations Finance, eCommerce Finance and non‑finance teams to continuously refine management reporting frameworks, ensuring results are actionable and reflect business drivers.
  • Performance Mentoring:
    Coach and build capability across offshore team to build both technical and Endeavour business acumen.
• Financial Reporting & Month‑End
  • Financial Close:
    Oversee the delivery of the month‑end close cycle, ensuring financial integrity and timely delivery and championing a culture of rigorous quality assurance. Ensure all journals, reconciliations, and reporting packages are completed to a high standard.
  • Reporting Governance:
    Maintain oversight of group reporting standards, including One Stream submission integrity and the strategic consolidation of P&L and balance sheet data.
  • Technical Expertise for Complex Accounting:
    Serve as the accounting subject matter expert and decision‑maker for complex retail activities, resolving high‑impact technical accounting challenges.
• System and Process Delivery, Improvement & Projects
  • ERP System Delivery:
    Complete new ERP testing, manage defects and required post‑go‑live system enhancements.
  • Process Excellence:
    Drive, set and deliver pre and post go‑live ERP processes.
  • Transition Enablement:
    Onboard, train and transition knowledge and processes to new offshore processing team.
  • Business Initiatives:
    Represent Business Services to ensure successful implementation of business initiatives.
  • System Optimisation:
    Leverage systems to drive efficiencies, automate manual journals and improve the integrity of financial and operating results.
  • Process Simplification:
    Identify opportunities to streamline accounting processes and implement best‑practice standardisation.
• Balance Sheet, Audit & Compliance
  • Reconciliations Excellence:
    Ensure a secondary review for select balance sheet reconciliations, robust controls, timely risk and issue identification and resolution, and engagement with business units.
  • Analytical Insight:
    Drive analytical reviews across key reconciliations to extract actionable financial insights.
  • Complex Reconciliations:
    Guide and ensure effectiveness of balance sheet reconciliations for complex and high‑risk balances.
  • Audit & Reporting Periods:
    Seamless half‑year and full‑year deliverables and coordination and delivery of external auditor requests and requirements.

• 7+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Shared Services, or Global Business Services, preferably with at least 3 years in a role overseeing retail related accounting functions.
• Experience managing an offshore or outsourced shared service delivery model with high levels of business satisfaction.
• Proven track record of success in driving process optimisation, leveraging technology, data and best‑practice insights.
• Exceptional business partnering and influencing skills, with an ability to anticipate and proactively prepare for business queries and requirements.
• Experience in SAP S/4 HANA, Great Plains or Dynamics 365.
• Accounting professional qualification (e.g., CA, CPA, CIMA).
• Experience in successful Finance technology programs (including SAP ERP implementations) is highly desirable.
• Experience with change management and embedding new capabilities.