Financial Accountant

We have an exciting opportunity for a Financial Accountant to join the Harrods Finance team. This is a high-impact role at the heart of the business, responsible for safeguarding the integrity of our financial performance and ensuring our stakeholders have access to accurate, timely, and insightful financial information.

Working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, you will play a key role in delivering robust financial reporting, meaningful variance analysis, and the financial controls that support confident business decision-making.

About the Role

As a Financial Accountant, you will take ownership of financial reporting, controls, and performance oversight across a defined portfolio within the Retail group, including responsibility for associated balance sheet areas. Acting as a trusted finance partner, you will provide the strong financial foundations that enable our Commercial Finance teams to drive performance, while championing best practice, compliance, and continuous process improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Take full accountability for balance sheet integrity, proactively managing risks, exposures, and aged items to ensure robust financial control and governance.
• Analyse and interpret balance sheet movements, clearly communicating underlying drivers, financial impacts, and areas of potential risk to key stakeholders.
• Prepare and review financial statements under FRS 102 for your entities or business area, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and high-quality financial reporting.
• Support internal and external audit activities, providing clear documentation and ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards and control requirements.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, enhance reporting quality, and drive efficiencies across the finance function.

About You

We're looking for a qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA preferred) with strong technical accounting expertise and a detailed understanding of financial reporting, balance sheet control, and reconciliations. You will have a meticulous approach to your work, with a strong focus on accuracy, completeness, and always maintaining financial integrity. Advanced Excel skills and experience working with financial systems are essential, alongside the ability to analyse, investigate, and resolve discrepancies through a disciplined and methodical approach.

The successful candidate will bring experience from a Financial Controlling, Reporting, or Audit-focused role, with a proven track record of delivering month-end close activities, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting audit processes. You will be highly organised, able to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines, particularly during period-end cycles. Strong communication skills are also key, enabling you to clearly and accurately explain financial positions, variances, and control-related matters within a structured, governance-focused environment

About Us

Harrods is one of the world’s leading luxury department stores and we’re becoming a destination for top designers, and the most sought-after brands from around the globe. Our combined mission is to make visiting our iconic Knightsbridge store one of the world’s most inspiring shopping experiences.

Our Promise to You

Help us make the impossible possible for our customers and we’ll do something remarkable for you. As well as offering a friendly environment to inspire your best work, we provide abundant opportunities and support to build an exceptional career across the varied specialisms of our business. 

Uniquely You

Whilst our job adverts outline the ideal qualities, skills, and prior experience for the role, we believe in the potential for growth and value individual strengths. If you can demonstrate the majority of skills and strong experience to thrive in this role, we would encourage you to apply.

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes, and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

If you want to know more about life at Harrods, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, or follow us on Instagram @togetherharrods.

Additional Information:

Time Type:

Permanent

Department:

Finance Management (Evan van der Spuy)