Senior Manager Finance - Fashion

Job Responsibilities

1. Drive the budget and revision processes by delegating responsibilities to budget controllers and coordinating with other departments on information requirements.
2. Provide support to budget controllers to allow them to progress as fast as possible and supervise in a subtle manner the quality, reliability, and accuracy of work delivered by them.
3. Refine the management reporting to incorporate and evaluate all key performance indicators that management requires to follow business profitability and its drivers.
4. Coordinate and direct the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual budgets, financial forecasts, core financial planning and analysis, proposal rates, profit plans and schedules, maintaining other planning and control procedures, and analyzing and reporting of variances to local management.
5. Provide detailed monthly operating results and analysis of cost per cost center and cost type, analyzing main variances with the latest revision, budget, and previous year.
6. Anticipate financial problems and recommend action plans for budget control.
7. Assist the Finance Manager in the implementation of Group internal control procedures to verify the integrity of all financial information and ensure and maintain historical records.
8. Work closely with the Financial Manager to ensure that expenses are on target with projections and that the company operates within budget parameters.
9. Assist the Management and Financial Manager, ensuring that operational areas are managed efficiently and effectively to ensure a low administrative cost and prepare the annual budgets forecasts and cash flow analysis.
10. Develop and interpret statistical and accounting information to appraise operating results in terms of profitability, performance against budget, and other matters bearing on the operating effectiveness of the company.
11. Establish major economic objectives and policies for the company and prepare reports that outline the company’s financial position in the areas of income, expenses, and earnings based on past, present, and future operations.
12. Recommend benchmarks for measuring the financial and operating performance of divisions and departments.
13. Oversee, compile, and analyze daily operations and financial information of the finance department.
14. Prepare and review weekly financial forecasts and long-range financial plans.
15. Direct the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities to ensure timely and accurate compliance with corporate deadlines.
16. Act as a finance advisor and make recommendations to the board to allow the business to make informed strategic, managerial, and operational decisions.
17. Ensure all finance records are kept accurately and securely and in line with legislative requirements.