Finance

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Warwick – Hybrid

Contract Type: 37.5 hours per week, 12 month fixed term contract for up

Salary: £50k - £60K (dependant on experience)

About Bravissimo

Part of Wacoal Europe Group, Bravissimo is an award-winning, multi-channel lingerie retailer on a mission to uplift women. Since 1995, our purpose has stayed the same: to inspire our customers to feel supported, celebrated, and confident every day.

We have 27 shops in the UK alongside a thriving ecommerce community, which offers a wide range of beautiful lingerie, swimwear and nightwear for women who wear a D to L cup, giving them so much choice.

We are on an exciting journey of growth and are loving every minute of it!

Bravissimo Benefits

• Up to 25 days holiday
• The opportunity to buy up to 5 additional days holiday each year

• Access to free and confidential 24/7 employee support from Retail Trust
• 50% discount on full priced items for you, your family & friends, up to a limit

• Healthcare Cash Plan for you and up to 4 children through Medicash
• Employer pension contributions up to 6%

• Life Assurance
• Great training and learning resources

• Long service awards after 5 years’ service
• Access to new and upcoming products, with the opportunity to provide feedback

• Access to discounts at many retailers, day out destinations and gyms through Retail Trust and Medicash
• Free parking at Bra HQ

Role purpose

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on accountant to join as Finance Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The successful candidate will take ownership of the day-to-day accounts function and lead the month-end close from start to finish, ensuring accurate, timely reporting and well-controlled financial data. Proven experience of running month-end is essential; experience using Iplicit accounting software is highly desirable.

Key responsibilities

• Accounts function ownership: Take overall responsibility and accountability for the effective day-to-day operation of the accounts function, ensuring priorities, deadlines and responsibilities are clearly managed.
• Team and stakeholder coordination: Coordinate the finance team's daily workload, review outputs, support colleague development and work closely with retail and central functions to resolve operational finance issues.
• Operational delivery: Ensure core finance processes run smoothly and consistently across transactional accounting, sales, cash, stock, property costs, fixed assets, tax and control accounts.
• Data accuracy: Maintain the completeness, accuracy and integrity of financial data through robust review, reconciliation and control procedures, resolving errors and aged items promptly.
• Month-end ownership: Lead and deliver the month-end close from start to finish, managing the timetable and coordinating inputs across the finance team. Prepare and post journals, accruals, prepayments and allocations, review outputs and resolve issues to ensure an accurate, timely close.
• Variance analysis: Review monthly P&L and balance sheet results, investigate variances against budget, forecast and prior periods, and present clear, accurate financial information to the Financial Controller.
• Balance sheet control: Own and review balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accounts are fully supported, reconciling items are understood and actions are tracked to completion.
• Controls and process improvement: Support the Financial Controller in maintaining effective financial controls, standardising ways of working and improving processes to increase efficiency, accuracy and resilience across the accounts function.

Experience and qualifications

Essential experience and skills

• An experienced accountant with proven experience independently running month-end close, including journals, accruals, prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations and management reporting.
• Strong practical knowledge of financial accounting and controls, with the ability to investigate discrepancies and resolve outstanding items.
• Experience taking ownership of day-to-day accounts operations, coordinating workloads and reviewing outputs to meet deadlines.
• Experience using accounting or ERP systems, with advanced spreadsheet and data-analysis skills and a track record of improving finance processes and reporting quality.
• A hands-on, organised approach, with strong attention to detail and the ability to work effectively with finance colleagues, retail teams and central functions.

Desirable experience and qualifications

• Experience using Iplicit accounting software is highly desirable.
• Experience in retail, consumer goods, e-commerce or another high-volume, multi-site environment is strongly preferred.
• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or a comparable accounting qualification is desirable; candidates with equivalent professional experience will also be considered.

Interested?

If this role sounds like a perfect fit for you, we’d absolutely love to hear from you! Just click the ‘Apply Now’ button below and you’ll be taken to a new page where you can send us your application.

Please include your CV and a cover letter telling us why you’d love to join Bravissimo and what you’d bring to the role. We really do read every single one - honestly! and we can’t move forward without it, so take this as your moment to tell us your story (as we love getting to know you) and your why!

If this opportunity makes you feel excited (we hope it does!), don’t wait too long to apply as we may close the advert early if we receive lots of applications.