The Role: This opportunity is working for a well-established and successful Global Retailer with an established brand in the sector and a very exciting strategy for the future. You will be a crucial member of the Commercial Finance team, reporting into the Head of Commercial Finance. This role will play a key role in leading the online team to deliver targets. You will also be supporting and challenging performance across multiple facets of the business whilst also creating continuous process improvements across reporting, reviewing performance, forecasting and budgeting. This role comes with a very competitive salary, benefits and study support.
Role Responsibilities:
Lead the online team to submit annual budget for the global online business, working extensively with buying and merchandising, online trade, digital marketing, and IT
Complete ownership of the online P&L, with a focus on profitability by territory
Pre and post analysis of online promotions to ensure financially viable and providing commentary on key highlights and learnings
Forecast and periodical re-forecast of online P&L, highlighting key risks and opportunities to senior management
Responsible for all online month end postings, working closely with finance team to ensure accurate. Producing and presenting monthly commentary to senior management on key variances against budget and last year
Supporting digital marketing and online trade team with monthly financial review. Working closely to evaluate revenue and spend, by channel, with a strong focus on ROI
Ownership of weekly reporting on sales, margin and key digital KPI’s, tracking actual performance against budget and last year
Supporting the online team on financial modelling and strategic analysis on large investment projects to be presented to Finance for approval
Preparation and review of smaller investment and commercial business appraisals and providing recommendations and post investment appraisal of Online projects
Own and maintain financial models to assist with short term business decisions, for example promotions, discount analysis and delivery analysis
Candidate Requirements:
Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)
Previous experience business partnering buying and merchandising, online trade, digital marketing, and IT teams in a Retail business
Strong commercial acumen with a focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance
Proven experience of analysing and interpreting data, with the ability of summarising key points and making recommendations
Self-motivated team player, happy to work independently and build relationships across the business
Ability to manage and prioritise workload whilst maintaining a strong relationship with key stakeholders
Highly skilled in Microsoft software, with experience in using finance and reporting software
Company Information
Wayman Finance is a specialist recruitment agency with over 20 years’ experience within the Finance field. We’ve worked hard to establish our reputation with our clients as one of the most reliable Finance and Accounting agencies in London through our core values of honesty and customer excellence.
Application
To be considered for this Senior Finance Analyst - Ecommerce position please forward a CV as soon as possible