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Overview
The Senior Accountant is a key member of the Accounting team, responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timely reporting of the US region's financial results to Stella McCartney headquarters, internal stakeholders, and external auditors. This role oversees all accounting activities related to the region's cost centers, including month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, lease accounting and agreement analysis, landlord sales audits, and store MRP preparation and reporting.
In addition, the Senior Accountant partners closely with Retail Operations and business leaders to analyze financial results, identify variances to budget and forecast, and provide actionable insights to support effective expense management and decision-making. The role also plays an active part in the budgeting and forecasting process by providing financial analysis, reporting, and support that help drive business performance and strategic planning.
This position requires a highly analytical, detail-oriented accounting professional who can balance operational excellence with strong business partnering skills in a dynamic luxury retail environment.
Your Mission:
- Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant financial reporting.
- Prepare and maintain account reconciliations while providing analytical support to business stakeholders.
- Perform daily reconciliation of credit card transactions and settlements.
- Reconcile daily retail sales activity across all store locations and sales channels.
- Monitor financial performance, identify trends across key performance indicators (KPIs), and analyze significant variances to determine underlying business drivers.
- Provide store management and the Store Operations team with detailed analysis of store operating expenses and financial performance.
- Serve as a financial partner to store managers, providing guidance and education on store contribution reports and key financial metrics.
- Act as the primary liaison for landlord sales audits, coordinating requests and ensuring timely responses.
- Prepare and post month-end journal entries in accordance with company policies and accounting standards.
- Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations and resolve reconciling items in a timely manner.
- Partner with budget owners to monitor expenses, provide financial guidance, and support cost-control initiatives.
- Provide financial data and supporting documentation required for tax provision calculations and related reporting.
- Prepare and deliver data, analyses, and support for internal and external audit requests.
- Review, validate, and upload monthly treasury-related journal entries.
- Prepare executive-level presentations, financial analyses, and ad hoc reports to support management decision-making.
- Participate in cross-functional initiatives and special projects as assigned.
Your Talent:
- Luxury retail and/or wholesale industry experience preferred.
- Proven senior-level accounting experience, with responsibility for general ledger accounting, financial reporting, and month-end close processes.
- Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to prioritize, organize, and effectively manage multiple responsibilities independently.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and the ability to manage a broad range of accounting activities with minimal supervision.
- Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and consistently meet deadlines.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis, pivot tables, complex formulas, and financial modeling.
- Experience with SAP required.
Pay Band:
$80 - $85,000/year, dependent upon experience
Reward
Our philosophy is to go beyond monetary return and consider ourselves responsible for your wellbeing, your family, your health, your time and the community.
Employee discount
Exclusive staff sales and sample sales
Flexible working/core hours
Maternity/paternity enhanced
Fitness membership (Classpass) and onsite yoga
Volunteer and Birthday leave
Employee referral bonus
Financial Wellbeing Support Services
We welcome people with disabilities and endeavour to make reasonable adjustments, if you do require such adjustments please let us know within 48 hours of your interview.
At Stella McCartney, we like to be bold. For us this means challenging ourselves and the wider industry in which we operate. As part of our commitments to inclusive fashion, we have an ambitious strategy to put diversity, equity and inclusion at the centre of everything we do. Our starting point is to create a workplace where different voices are respected, heard and empowered in equal measure regardless of factors such as culture and backgrounds, and to influence and disrupt fashion and other industries by providing opportunities for global diverse talent to shine.
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Skills Required
- Senior-level accounting experience with responsibility for general ledger accounting and financial reporting
- Month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close and balance sheet reconciliations experience
- Experience preparing and posting month-end journal entries and treasury-related entries
- Experience reconciling retail sales activity and credit card transactions
- Lease accounting and landlord sales audit experience
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, complex formulas, financial modeling)
- Experience with SAP
- Luxury retail and/or wholesale industry experience
- Ability to prepare executive-level presentations and provide financial analysis to stakeholders
What We Do
Stella McCartney is a luxury lifestyle brand that was launched under the designer’s name in 2001. It emboldens confident femininity with elevated yet effortless, conscious fashion. The brand is committed to being an ethical and modern company, believing it is responsible for the resources it uses and the impact it has on the environment. It is therefore constantly innovating new ways to become more sustainable, from designing to store practices and product manufacturing. As a lifelong vegetarian, Stella McCartney never uses any leather, feathers, fur or skins in any products for both ethical and environmental reasons – pioneering a movement for the use of alternative materials. Supporting regenerative agriculture and circularity, the brand is embracing new business models that will transform how clothes are sourced, produced, sold, shared, repaired and reused, promoting long-lasting products with extended use to reduce environmental impact. Today, Stella McCartney spans women’s ready to wear, unisex capsules, kids’ clothing, accessories, swimwear, lingerie, a performance wear collaboration with adidas, STELLA skincare and more – with 48 directly owned stores and 21 franchise stores across New York City, London, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing. Our collections are now sold in 77 nations through 863 specialty shops and department stores, and ship to 100 countries via online.
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