Director of Accounting

Something Extraordinary Every Day™

As our Accounting Director, you will work in partnership with the Senior Vice President of Finance and be responsible for both the financial and management accounting for the Village, and for reporting for related legal entities.

What you will be doing

• Providing monthly reporting of Village results to deadlines, and supporting with monthly external reporting to stakeholders and lenders.
• Identifying and posting accruals, prepayments and other journals.
• Understanding the business and the impacts of business changes on the financials.
• Ensuring external financial reporting is completed by deadline.
• Liaising with budget holders on cost and coding issues, including organizing Cost Variance Review meetings with budget holders.
• Producing weekly, monthly and annual cash forecasting.
• Providing any other ad hoc reporting required.
• Preparing monthly payroll payments and liaising with the Payroll team to ensure accuracy and tax compliance.
• Managing transactions in Oracle, including approving new suppliers, and reviewing and approving supplier payments in Oracle, as well as offline ad hoc payments.
• Reconciling payroll and ensuring costs are recharged, where applicable.
• Performing monthly bank reconciliations for all Village accounts.
• Performing inter-company reconciliations, including corporate loans, and ensuring payments are made promptly.
• Being the point of contact with external auditors and delivering the “Client Assistance Pack” and ensuring required reporting deadlines are adhered to.
• Managing the year-end audit process and preparation of year-end financial statements.
• Acting as the contact for internal audit and ensuring identified issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Overseeing legal formalities such as sales tax and corporate taxes, working with external advisors in preparing tax returns for payment and ensuring timely submission of returns.
• Taking primary responsibility for monthly balance sheet reconciliations, in particular the construction accounting.
• Reviewing and posting expenses, ensuring employees are adhering to Company policies.
• Keeping up-to-date with current accounting standards relevant to the Village location.
• Ensuring Oracle approvals are relevant and there are no risks / conflicts through segregation of duties.
• Ensuring good relationships are in place with suppliers, banks, auditors and other partners.
• Supplying information to management as required.
• Working with the Finance team in the UK to enable transaction processing to be centralized.
• Owning responsibility for Property Accounting, and training and developing the Brand accounts when they are onboarded.

What makes you special

Every colleague is an entrepreneur at heart and this drives our organizational culture, which values invention, innovation and risk taking. To be successful with us, you’ll have :

There’s no one quite like us

The Bicester Collection are the worlds’ leading luxury shopping destinations, and we are committed to creating magical and memorable experiences for our guests. Taking the name of the founding Village, The Bicester Collection distinguishes the 11 Villages in Europe and China as one collection of destinations for our guests, our brand partners, our travel and tourism partners, our corporate and financial media, and our internal teams.

Our Vision is to be the best shopping destination in the world. Our Mission is to make the lives of others better - our brands, our guests, our people and our communities. Our Brand Promise is to offer something extraordinary every day. Our Five Values are the glue that bind us together and allows us to lead ahead :

Why we’re exceptional

The key to our success is the quality and commitment of our people. To work in one of the teams at any of the Villages is to play an active role in redefining both the art and the science of retail. This creates a dynamic approach that underpins our ability to anticipate future trends in a fast-changing world. In return for your Authenticity, Critical Thinking, Innovation, Passion and Vision, you’ll receive a generous salary and we’ll also reward you by :

Looking after you : You’re entitled to 35 days of time off plus holidays and five sick days. We provide an amazing benefits' package including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, generous short- and long-term disability. We also offer a generous 401(k) match, Employee Assistance Program, and additional ancillary benefits.

Treating you

We offer

a very generous employee referral bonus.

Championing you : You’ll be working within a creative and collaborative environment like no other, with the opportunity to develop your professional and personal skills while advancing your career.

Come and live your story with us

The key to our success is the quality and commitment of our people. The Bicester Collection is made up of 1,200 colleagues of 50 nationalities. We are diverse in background, age, experience and leadership style. We believe that an inclusive workforce makes magic happen, and with this in mind we welcome everyone - regardless of age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity - to be a part of our family. We are offering a fantastic opportunity for a professional and commercially focused individual to join us. We have huge ambition for what we can achieve together and we want to have fun!

This job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Belmont Park Village is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on the basis of actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status, or status as a victim of domestic violence, arrest record or conviction record, or sincerely held practice of religion or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, local, or other law (“Protected Characteristics”).