Role: Finance Transformation Accountant

Location: Blackburn, BB1 2FA – Office Based

Contract: Full-Time Hours / Permanent

Salary: £47,025 - £57,475

Company: EG Group

About the Role…

Our Finance Department is expanding, and we have a new opportunity available for a Finance Transformation Accountant! This role will be part of a new transformation team that will introduce standardisation and drive more efficient, streamlined ways of working across the company.

Reporting directly into the Head of Business and Process Improvements, the successful candidate will work alongside existing BAU team members in management accounts and the shared services transactional team to understand how historic data, current processes and controls can be improved, then execute the changes on behalf of the BAU team, before handing the solution back to them.

You will also be a supportive partner to the BAU teams, helping take them on a journey to a better way of working. Once implemented, new processes and controls will need to be monitored to ensure they are followed in the future.

If you are a creative thinker with a proactive mindset who enjoys enhancing processes for others, along with a solid understanding of management accounting or transactional services, apply now to join our team!

Duties & Responsibilities

• Build relationships with members of the BAU team to gain their trust and be a credible partner in helping them improve ways of working
• Take an area of known difficulty within either management accounting or transactional shared services and investigate it thoroughly to understand where problems in data, processes and controls exist
• Collaborate with the BAU teams to design solutions that address historic data issues, enhance finance processes, and implement or upgrade controls around those processes.
• Present clear and concise findings that outline options with rationale for the recommended solutions.
• Drive standardisation to ensure that as far as possible all changes are implemented globally in a standardised way
• Promote independence by coaching BAU teams to implement new processes and controls and resolve issues on their own when needed.
• Monitor changes to any fixed data, processes and controls to ensure that problems do not reoccur
• Maintain a constant focus on operational impacts to ensure that all changes contribute value to the business.
• Where appropriate, work on future acquisitions made by EG Group and support in ensuring they adopt standard processes as defined by EG Finance

This list is not exhaustive and may be added to or amended from time to time

Candidate Requirements

• Qualified accountant – ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
• Experienced SME with management accounting and/or transactional services
• Track record of independently improving bad data, processes and controls
• Experience of operating in a relatively large, complex business
• IT literate – Excel, PPT. SAP would be an advantage but not essential
• Have an inventive and pro-active mind-set to independently identify and resolve data, process and controls related issues

Benefits & Rewards

• Performance Based Bonus Scheme
• Employee Life Assurance
• EG Group Discounts - up to 15% off at our stores and food to go restaurants
• ASDA Discount Card – 10% off all ASDA stores
• EG Cares Benefits - exclusive discounts across 900 retailers
• Smart Health – 24/7 online GP access, health checks and health and wellbeing support
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to our Wellbeing Centre which offers emotional & practical support including free financial advice
• Learning & Development – access to our Learning Hub, the most extensive online course library in the world to support you with every step of your career at EG Group
• Waterside Café - freshly prepared meals at affordable prices
• Free Secure Car Parking
• Dress Down Fridays
• Flexi-Time
• Prayer and Ablution Facilities
• Shower Facilities
• Sit / Stand Desk Facilities
• Work Anniversary Rewards
• Free Eye Test

Who are EG Group? 

EG Group is one of the world’s leading independent convenience retailers with an extensive network of sites across international markets in the United Kingdom & Ireland, Continental Europe, Australia and the United States of America.

Founded in 2001 by the Issa family with the acquisition of a single site in the UK, today the company is at the forefront of delivering an innovative approach to forecourt convenience retail.

At EG Group, we pride ourselves on being recognised for our investment model, trading performance and more importantly, providing a best-in-class customer experience in Grocery & Merchandise, Foodservice and Fuel.

Our transformational convenience retail business model has been built upon excellent relationships with an extensive portfolio of leading retail brands, and through strategic network acquisitions supported by a program of new-to-industry developments.

Every day, our committed workforce tirelessly delivers our products and services to millions of customers alongside supporting the local communities in which we operate.

Please note - the successful applicant will be subject to a DBS check which will be funded by EG Group.