Management Accountant - Property and Capex

Management Accountant - Property and Capex

Final date to receive applications: 28 July 2026

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Management Account – Property & Capex

Reports to: Finance Manager – Retail & Overheads

Key Stakeholders: Finance Business Partner – Retail, Property Team

This role is focussed on delivering the accurate management accounting for our Retail business, which consists of over 400 Stores – 250 in the UK and 100 Internationally across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, with particular focus on accurate Property Costs and IFRS
16 lease accounting.

You will work as part of a wider accounting team to deliver accurate, timely and robust P&L and balance sheet reporting, maintaining high quality ledger integrity in line with latest accounting standards. You will continuously seek to improve and automate processes to drive efficiency and accuracy across the Team. You will also support the Finance Business Partner in understanding and analysing their P&L, as well as supporting the communication of performance to the wider business with them.

As a Management Accountant you will take on more complex areas of the P&L and support the assistant accountants with their technical skills and development.

• Prepare and post period end journal entries ensuring accurate recording of all costs in a timely manner – including accruals and prepayments in line with accounting standards.
• Working with Finance Business Partner to understand any additional accruals and prepayments required.
• Regular (at least weekly) review of ledger integrity to prepare for smooth month end close.
• Working closely with AP Team to ensure accurate invoice posting at store cost centre and general ledger account code detail.
• Working with the Property Team to ensure accurate reporting of the Property Costs, both opex and capex.
• Ownership of business as usual IFRS
  16 postings and adjustments, working with Group Team where necessary to ensure accurate postings. Ability to explain postings and final position to the rest of the Team.
• Complete robust balance sheet reconciliations to agreed deadlines with all reconciling items investigated and resolved promptly.

• Support FBP with understanding of ledger postings and, at times, with detailed and concise P&L commentary for individual / specific areas of the P&L commentary.
• Support FBP with ad hoc data requests to carry out P&L analytics, risks & opportunities management and more.
• Support FBP with some areas of routine forecasting and budgeting.

• Significant involvement in the year-end process, preparation of deliverables for the audit and key contact for the auditors during the audit process.
• Support the development of a robust control environment by continuously identifying opportunities to improve financial systems and processes and by implementing these changes.

• Using Netsuite for journal postings, seeking out opportunities for automation or efficient improvement of the postings.
• Using Workday excel reporting tool to generate accurate data to support FBP with analysis of P&L.

• Support with the ongoing development and coaching of assistant management accountants (typically part-qualified) in both technical expertise and skills and softer skills behaviours.

This progressive role would suit someone studying towards an accountancy qualification and offers the opportunity for the right individual to advance into a qualified Management Accountant role in due course.

• Minimum 3 years experience working within a Finance team in a high-volume environment.
• Retail industry experience strongly preferred.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and a desire to drive improvements in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial business.
• Excellent numeracy and IT skills including advanced Excel with a strong attention to detail.

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Hybrid working, 3 days in London based office & 2 working from home
• Holiday allowance
• 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
• Pension scheme