Finance Manager - FTC

At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

Our Mission – we are building the worlds most admired and compelling brand ecosystem

Our Purpose – we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world’s best brands and experiences

At Frasers Group, we fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:

• Think without limits
  - Think fast, think fearlessly, and take the team with you
• Own itand back yourself
  - Own the basics, own your role and own the results
• Be relevant -Relevantto our people, our partners and the planet

Are you ready to join the Fearless?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing Finance department within one of the UK’s leading multi-brand retailers where professional development is paramount to everything we do.

This is a fluid role where there will always be something different happening to keep you busy. There are no formal or rigid ways of doing things, so opportunities to improve processes & procedures are always there. Each member of the finance team has an opportunity to put their own personal stamp on things and senior management are always around to offer a helping hand.

IFRS
16 Lease Accounting

• Identifying if any new leases signed by the business are IFRS
  16 applicable and accounting for these within the lease accounting system.
• Identifying any modifications/disposals which need to be made on existing leases and making the required adjustments within the lease accounting system.
• Reconciling between the lease accounting system and the property database where leases are held.
• Identifying lease payments made in the accounts which need to be reversed under IFRS
  16.
• Reporting on IFRS 16 within the Group team monthly.
• Liaising with internal stakeholders within the property department around any lease queries and obtaining information for the yearly audit.
• Liaising with External Auditors on audit queries during the year-end audit process.
• Integrating any new business acquisitions which may hold leases which fall under the scope of IFRS
  16.
• Preparing forecasts in line with Group requirements.
• Processing impairments within the lease accounting system when required.

Fixed Assets

• Providing guidance and coaching to the part qualified financial accountant who owns fixed assets.
• Overseeing the month end processes for capex additions and depreciation. Reviewing journals before posting.
• Reviewing reconciliations performed for each entity.
• Overseeing year end processes and year end audit.
• Preparing the impairment model for the Group with required information from various sources. Applying the appropriate assumptions provided and providing commentary to Chief Accountant.
• Scenario planning the above across a matrix of assumptions.

Property Accounting

• Ownership of the accounting of the Group’s property valuations and impairment accounting.
• Liaising with internal and external advisors on valuations of properties to be included in the financial instruments and ensuring appropriate accounting in the Frasers Group Plc and subsidiary financial statements.
• Reviewing forecasts and variances throughout the year in cooperation with the property team.
• Own the audit process of investment property accounting ensuring all appropriate documentation is provided to the auditors & queries answered in a timely manner.

• Qualified ACA, ACCA, CIMA.
• Good knowledge of IFRS 16
• Strong organisational skills
• Be highly motivated and able to meet deadlines
• Ability to work independently but also enjoy working in a fast-paced, team environment

Along with your benefits package we also…