Senior Manager Financial Reporting, Assurance & Compliance, UK & Ireland
Join the team that keeps our colours balanced and our numbers bold – finance with flair at Le Creuset!
Location: ANDOVER, UNITED KINGDOM
Employment Type: FULL TIME, ONSITE
About Le Creuset
At Le Creuset, every dish begins with a story – and every story begins with people. Since 1925, we’ve brought generations together around the table, transforming everyday meals into cherished memories. Our legacy is built on colour, craft, and a deep passion for innovation – shaped as much by our iconic products as by the people who bring them to life. We’re not just creating cookware; we’re creating moments that last a lifetime. If you’re inspired by heritage, driven by creativity, and ready to shape the future of the kitchen, we’d love to welcome you into our story.
Role Summary
As a member of Le Creuset’s Finance team, you’ll help shape the financial heartbeat of a brand known for timeless design and vibrant colour. From budgeting and reporting to analysis and compliance, you’ll ensure our numbers tell a clear, accurate story that supports smart decision‑making across the business. This role blends attention to detail with big‑picture thinking – perfect for someone who loves balancing creativity with precision in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities
What’s On Your Daily Menu
- Manage Group financial reporting and certification requirements
- Maintain strong relationships with external auditors and ensure well‑executed audits
- Coordinate with Group internal audit teams and lead agreed remediation actions
- Oversee balance sheet assurance, monthly controls and risk/opportunity assessments
- Manage key stakeholder consultation on technical reporting matters
- Maintain oversight of finance key controls and QA processes
- Collaborate across Finance, Group teams and SLT to support effective decision‑making
What’s On Your Seasonal Menu
- Quarterly: Half‑year and year‑end Group reporting cycles
- Preparing: Presenting and filing statutory financial statements
- Delivering: Group and statutory audits smoothly and on time
- Leading: Required external compliance activities, including EPR, sustainability reporting, plastic packaging reporting, payment practices, national statistics, VAT, Intrastat, EC Sales and Corporation Tax
- Maintaining: Finance risk register and driving improvements in assurance
- Coordinating: Ad‑hoc reporting projects as required
What We’re Looking For
We’re Looking For Someone Who Brings
- Significant experience in financial reporting, assurance and controls in a complex organisation
- Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders, including Exec and NEDs
- Excellent judgement on accounting matters and confidence advising senior leaders
- Strong organisational and planning skills across multiple reporting cycles
- Ability to build trusted relationships across Finance, SLT, Group partners and external auditors
- Enthusiasm, energy, resilience and commitment
- A continuous improvement mindset, with experience leading both incremental and transformational change
- Empathy and an ability to live and promote company values every day
Your Flavour Profile (Behaviours & Traits)
We’re looking for someone who’ll bring the right ingredients to our kitchen, blending resilience, creativity, collaboration and integrity, all simmered together to support exceptional financial delivery.
Skills & Qualifications — Essential Ingredients
- Experience: Deep, slow‑simmered experience in financial reporting, assurance and compliance, ideally within a complex, fast‑paced organisation. Your background includes delivering high‑quality Group reporting, statutory accounts, and external compliance obligations — all while maintaining strong relationships with auditors, internal stakeholders and cross‑functional teams. You’re confident working under high heat, balancing precision with commercial awareness, and navigating multiple reporting cycles with ease.
- Education: A recognised finance qualification (ACA or equivalent) with substantial post‑qualification experience and up‑to‑date expertise in UK GAAP and IFRS.
- Tools of the Trade: Mastery of accounting standards, strong organisational and planning skills, robust control understanding, and the ability to interpret complex financial information with accuracy and clarity. You’re comfortable managing audits, coordinating risk and control frameworks, and ensuring every reporting “dish” is prepared flawlessly and on time.
- Special Sauces: Signature flavours include personal credibility, integrity and professionalism — the essential ingredients for influencing senior leaders and acting as a trusted advisor. You blend strong technical judgement with commercial understanding, ensuring decisions are balanced, sound and aligned to business goals. Your resilience, energy and commitment mean you thrive even during intense reporting seasons.
- Project Management: Ability to juggle multiple pans at once, managing Group audits, statutory filings, compliance deadlines, internal audit remediation, and balance sheet assurance — all while keeping stakeholders aligned. You prioritise effectively, understand when to delegate and when to take the lead, and deliver projects with precision and consistency across varied timelines
- Communication: Communicate with clarity, confidence and authority. Whether speaking with auditors, senior leadership, Group finance or Exec‑level stakeholders, you adapt your style to the audience and present complex issues in a way that is both digestible and influential. Your strong interpersonal skills help you build trust and partnerships across every corner of the business.
- Problem‑Solving: When the recipe goes wrong, you know how to fix it. Bringing a technically robust, solution‑oriented mindset — essential for navigating accounting judgements, risk assessments, and compliance challenges. You can diagnose issues quickly, propose balanced solutions and maintain the integrity of financial reporting while supporting commercial needs. Your attention to detail ensures no ingredient is ever overlooked.
- Presentation: Comfortable presenting technical matters, reporting insights, and accounting positions at SLT, Board, and senior executive forums. You establish yourself as the subject‑matter expert, communicating with authority while keeping complexity accessible and relevant.
- Speed: Ability to work efficiently and with discipline across multiple reporting cycles — from quarterly and half‑year submissions to annual statutory accounts and compliance deadlines. Even when the kitchen is at full heat, you maintain quality, accuracy, and composure, ensuring nothing is rushed but everything is timely.
Other Requirements
Sometimes, you’ll need to take your culinary skills on the road. This role may involve a tasting tour across the UK and occasionally abroad, with overnight stays on the menu. To keep the journey smooth, a full, clean UK driving licence is one of the essential ingredients.
Why Join Our Table?
At Le Creuset, you will find your seat at our table, which is as colourful as our cookware and rich in history. Our table is grounded in our values: Passion, Integrity, Excellence, Innovation and Teamwork. Every talent will add flavor. Every idea brings colour. And every day is a chance to create something that lasts. With the passion you bring, you become part of a timeless legacy, one that brings people together around food, stories, and meaningful shared moments.
Diversity and Inclusion Statement
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, race, ethnic or national origin. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential.
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