Accountant

Hybrid Role – Cheltenham

Salary up to £40k subject to skills & experience, plus a fantastic package including company bonus and access to our flexible benefits platform.

Designing award-winning products for our market-leading brands – Mira Showers, Rada, Recoup and Kohler UK - is our lifeblood. We focus on investment; investing in the best technology and resources available, and investing in each and every individual. Put simply, it’s who we are. Whether you arrive at our factories in Cheltenham or Hull, have a visit from a Service Engineer or pick up the phone to our Customer Service team, you’ll instantly see that, no matter our department or location, we all share the same values at Kohler Mira.

From day one you’re part of the Kohler Mira community – a collaborative, forward focused team with a shared pride in our work and commitment to delight our customers, develop innovative products and services and inspire our people (who knew a bathroom manufacturing company did all this?!)

But, to get to where we want to be, we are looking for an Accountant to join our Finance team. Find out more below!

Role Overview

Reporting to the Financial Controller – FP&A, your primary responsibility will be to act as the mainfinancial support for the Service & Warrantyfunction of the business, as well as providing commercial support for the associated Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Channel and cost centre support to the Selling function. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role insupporting the implementation of a key growth area of the business.

Specific Responsibilities:

Segmental Ownership

• Business partnering with the Service & Warranty teams, providing support on cost centre analysis and field service engineer utilization.
• Work collaboratively with the Sales team to understand projected expenditure and develop mitigation plans for any expected over-spend.
• Attendance and participation at the monthly Service Supply Review (SSMR), being the lead finance support for this area of Integrated Business Planning (IBP).
• Work closely with the Product and Channel Marketing teams to understand the commercial net sales forecasts for the DTC Channel.
• Valuing and owning the SSMR dashboards, ensuring Average Unit Prices are kept up-to-date to reflect any price increases and new service propositions.
• Being the lead finance support on business cases, working cross-functionally to ensure an acceptable Return on Investment (ROI) is delivered and that alternative scenarios have been considered.
• Review and approve promotions ensuring they deliver an acceptable ROI to the business.
• Drive continuous improvement in the SSMR and wider IBP process, enhancing the quality, efficiency and integrity of data presented and working towards a longer term 5-year forecast.
  
  
  

Income Statement

• Accountability for the Warranty and Systems sections of the Kohler Mira Income Statement, ensuring variances of actual to planned & forecasted performance are understood and explained.
• Month end posting of related accruals and prepayments.
• Month end meetings with the Finance Team to discuss actual performance against budgets and forecasts.
• Monthly meetings with the Customer Service Operations Senior Manager and their management team to discuss actual performance against budgets and forecasts.
• Responsibility for the co-ordination and submission of the forecasting process for Warranty, using the insights from the IBP process to drive the valuation.
  
  
  

Balance Sheet

• Responsibility for reviewing and reconciling the warranty balance sheet accounts.
• Understanding and communicating risks and opportunities across the warranty balance sheet accounts.
• Where required, forecasting the expected future position of the warranty related balance sheet accounts.
  
  
  

Other

• Work closely with the Credit Control, Internal Sales and SSC Reporting teams to ensure any Accounts Receivable items linked to the DTC channel requiring action from the Business are dealt with promptly.
• Aligned with the business’s culture and strategic plan, seek continuous improvement in all areas of work to improve efficiency, control and reduce manual/non-valued added work through automation and other “change the work” initiatives.
• Act as a role model and informal mentor to junior members of the team to support their development.
• Being an active member of the finance community- Promotes and contributes to the Finance team in order to share information, drive best practice finance solutions in reporting, analysis, decision support and business partnering.
  
  
  

Skills/Requirements

• Qualified CIMA / ACCA / ACA (essential).
• SAP and BPC experience would be advantageous.
• Proficient in Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to balance technical capability with commercial delivery and a strong improvement mindset.
• Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to detail
• Available for occasional travel.
  
  
  

We can offer you a lot in return!

We empower each associate to #BecomeMoreAtKohler with a competitive total rewards package to support your health and wellbeing, access to career growth and development opportunities, a diverse and inclusive workplace, and a strong culture of innovation. With a genuine commitment to creating better tomorrows, we’re driving meaningful change in our mission to help people live gracious, healthy, and sustainable lives.

About Us

In the UK, Kohler Mira Ltd. is made up of three market leading brands: Mira Showers, Rada Controls, and KOHLER. Where our brands differ in market position, they are equal in their commitment to design, innovation, and providing a single level of quality regardless of price.

Kohler Mira is committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse associates, consumers, partners, and global communities.

As an equal opportunities employer, it is Kohler Mira’s policy to recruit, hire, and promote qualified people in all job classifications without prejudice. If, as an individual with a disability, you require adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected].

Note for Recruitment Agencies: The Kohler Talent Acquisition team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies, and where we require external support, we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to Kohler Co. without a specific request by our Talent Acquisition Team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.