Financial Accountant & Controller

Who we’re looking for

• You have a business degree with a focus on "Finance & Controlling" or equivalent and relevant professional qualifications e.g. CPA or ACCA.
• You have 1-3 years of professional experience in accounting and controlling, preferably within a retail environment.
• Experience with Czech GAAP
• Experience with computerised accounting programmes and Business Intelligence software is a plus.
• You are an Excel professional and are open to implementing, integrating, and automating new systems and technologies.
• You have a strong hands-on mentality to ensure tasks are completed to the highest standard, think commercially, and do not lose sight of the bigger picture
• You have the flexibility to work in a reactive and ever-changing business environment, thriving on the opportunity to work autonomously and in support of the local leadership team
• You are an excellent communicator who is able to articulate a view and effect change within a collective group environment
• Proficiency in English and Czech, with strong written and oral communication skills.

What you’ll do

• Responsible for the preparation of the monthly management accounts, including P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow.
• Detailed variance analysis and thorough commentary to support the monthly numbers.
• Assist the External accountants with: Reviewing invoices and authorising payments
• Intercompany recharges and reconciliations
• Validating shop and website sales against internal BI tool for monthly sales booking
• Provide key statements to external accountants for reconciliation purposes.
• Accruals review
• Working alongside the Regional Finance Business Partner, you will assist with: Budgeting and quarterly reforecasting
• Target setting and bonus calculations for the shops
• Analysis of key business drivers including Visitors, Conversion and Average sale.
• Sales mix and cost of goods analysis
• Staff costs analysis
• You will oversee weekly and monthly sales reporting for both local management and into group headquarters.
• Active participation and support in the development and implementation of the local Business Plans, in order to secure local financial and strategic objectives.
• Analyses and acts on financial information so that corrective action is taken in order to meet financial objectives.
• Communication of financial information in order to ensure business understanding throughout the organisation.
• Implementing and maintaining financial and administrative policies and to ensure sound internal controls.
• Act as a liaison between the local shop and external HR/Payroll advisor.

About the position

You might know us as the inventors of the bath bomb, but there’s more to this great-smelling, partly employee-owned, family-run company than pioneering cosmetics. We believe our business should put more back into the world than it takes and demonstrate that capitalism can be a force for good. The Living Wage Foundation’s statement 'a hard day's work deserves a fair day's pay' is one that we are proud to commit to in the UK. As an accredited Living Wage employer, we put our people first and fight cruel practices like animal testing, promote regeneration, and show that it is what’s inside that counts - whether that’s an ingredient in a product, or the minerals in a smartphone. Lush Czech is a very successful 3-shop market, with all stores currently in Prague, and it also forms part of the progressive CEE network, which includes Hungary and Poland. Lush Czech prides itself on running, for the most part, as an independent market and has a very small support team based at our offices in Prague. This model offers opportunities to collaborate with many people within the larger group, allowing you to share your ideas to build the community and work with managers in other markets to expand our core business.

Benefits

• Access to group bonus scheme; up to 15% annually
• 40% employee discount on Lush products and Lush spa treatments
• 2 free products/month
• 1,000 CZK product allowance/month as a training
• Meaningful training and further education measures
• Flexible working hours and the option for part time home office
• 25 vacation days plus special leave for birthdays on a weekday
• International work environment
• Multisport card