UNIQLO is a leading brand of the Fast Retailing Group, one of the largest apparel retailers in the world. UNIQLO respects the individuality and lifestyle of all customers and takes pride in creating high-quality, innovative and long-lasting clothing at an affordable price.
We are recruiting an Accounting Manager to join our European Head Office in London. Reporting to the Head of Accounting, you will play a key role in ensuring IFRS and J-SOX compliance, strengthening financial controls, and delivering accurate reporting across multiple European markets.
This is an opportunity for someone with a strong audit and consumer industry background who combines hands-on operational accounting expertise with commercial awareness. We're looking for a qualified accountant who can take full ownership of the month-end close, balance sheet integrity and financial controls, while partnering with stakeholders across the business to deliver insight and support decision-making within a fast-paced international retail environment.
What You'll Be Responsible For
- Ensure IFRS, J-SOX, and statutory compliance across designated markets.
- Own financial control, reporting accuracy, and balance sheet integrity.
- Lead and develop Financial Accountants, providing coaching and support.
- Strengthen accounting processes, controls, and governance frameworks.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to provide financial insight and identify efficiencies.
- Support audits and collaborate with shared service and outsourced finance teams.
- Drive continuous improvement across accounting operations and reporting processes.
Skills, Experience and Attributes
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent) with post-qualified experience.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS, financial reporting, and internal controls.
- Solid understanding of balance sheet and P&L accounting.
- Audit background preferred, with exposure to a commercial environment.
- Experience managing and developing teams.
- Advanced Excel and ERP systems knowledge.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proactive, adaptable, and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Fluent English; additional European language skills are advantageous.
What We Offer
- 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
- 30% staff discount
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Private pension scheme
- Performance-based bonus scheme
- Hybrid working model (3 days office-based, 2 days remote)
- Social events throughout the year
- Seasonal sample sales
- Two paid Volunteer Days per year
- Prime central London location, close to Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus stations
UNIQLO is proud to be a Living Wage Foundation-accredited employer, committed to paying all our UK employees a real Living Wage.
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Skills Required
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with significant post-qualified experience
- Strong knowledge of IFRS and financial reporting
- Experience with J-SOX compliance
- Excellent understanding of balance sheet and P&L accounting
- Audit background
- Experience leading, reviewing, and developing the work of others
- Experience working with outsourced or shared-service finance functions
- Advanced Excel knowledge
- ERP system knowledge
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building abilities
- Proactive, adaptable, able to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Fluent English
- Additional European language skills
What We Do
About UNIQLO LifeWear Apparel that comes from the Japanese values of simplicity, quality, and longevity. Designed to be of the time and for the time, LifeWear is made with such modern elegance that it becomes the building blocks of each individual’s style. A perfect shirt that is always being made more perfect. The simplest design hiding the most thoughtful and modern details. The best in fit and fabric made to be affordable and accessible to all. LifeWear is clothing that is constantly being innovated, bringing more warmth, more lightness, better design, and better comfort to people’s lives. About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese retail holding company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. UNIQLO is the largest of eight brands in the Fast Retailing Group, the others being GU, Theory, PLST, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam, J Brand and Helmut Lang. With global sales of approximately 2.77 trillion yen for the 2023 fiscal year ending August 31, 2023 (US $18.92 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2023 rate of $1 = 146.2 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world’s largest apparel retail companies, and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer. UNIQLO continues to open large-scale stores in some of the world's most important cities and locations, as part of its ongoing efforts to solidify its status as a global brand. Today the company has a total of more than 2,400 UNIQLO stores across the world, including Japan, Asia, Europe, and North America. The total number of stores across Fast Retailing's brands is now close to 3,600
