Reporting into the Finance Business Partner (FBP), the role of the Senior finance Analyst - Digital
This role is to provide commercial and financial support to the Ecom trading teams; assessing daily trade and providing variance analysis, and assessing business cases to aid demand generation.
What you will need;
You will provide valuable business support to the teams to support with investment decisions, and ensure trade is on track to deliver our ambitious plans.
What you will do;
Providing commercial insight, financial planning and tracking progress against key strategic priorities set out in the EMEA strategy
Collaborate with the digital marketing team on a weekly basis to challenge the spend across all platforms, closely monitoring the ROI of campaigns and balancing spend across upper funnel activity to drive customer acquisition
Creation / review of business cases to obtain sign off for projects to drive growth and maximise profitability, including payment methods and on-site merchandising
Supporting the FBP with the budget and forecasting process in close collaboration with the Head of Ecom, trade, digital marketing and merchandising teams
Quantifying risks / opportunities to achieving the growth plan and influencing the content, marketing and trade teams using insights to mitigate where necessary
Delivery of month end, including calculation of accounting adjustments such as the returns provision
Delivery of the monthly S&OP pack with thorough understanding of performance versus the forecast
Support with the implementation of pricing and planning of promotional events to maximise gross margin whilst ensuring obsolete stock levels are closely monitored
What you will need?
Qualified accountant, or have appropriate background in a similar role, and are an experienced FP&A professional
Experience in working with Digital channels in a retail environment, (onmichannel desirable).
Ability to evaluate and challenge ROI with a commercial mindset
Ability to build credibility with wide range stakeholders across the business in order to quickly work cross functionally
Understand the detail and ensure accuracy, but also be able to summarise at an management level and present in a digestible format to senior stakeholders
Ability to multitask and prioritise, working in a matrix organisation
Great excel and powerpoint skills, previous experience using D365 is desirable but not essential
Ability to work proactively and autonomously, identifying and undertaking project work when required to improve a process
Do you have what it takes? Apply today!
Handle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
