Ecommerce Senior Finance Analyst
- Recruiter
- New Look
- Location
- City
- Salary
- £competitive
- Posted
- 07 Nov 2019
- Closes
- 14 Nov 2019
- Ref
- 231887676
- Job role
- Forensic accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
Job Description
Permanent / Fixed Term Permanent Closing Date: 15/11/2019 Support Centre Location London Office More about the role Here, at New Look, everything that we do is for the love of fashion. We've been bringing the latest fashion to the high-street since 1969. We're now a global, multichannel brand offering on-trend, value-fashion for women, men and teenage girls. Even after 50 years we've stayed true to our original mission of delivering fabulous products at a price our customers can afford. We invented fast fashion and it's our colleagues today that continue our journey to create a New Look that everyone loves. It's our values that inspire us every day - we play to win, we are customer obsessed, we work as one...and it starts with you. We are always on the lookout for talented, passionate people to join our New Look team. The Role: * Business partner with key operational Ecommerce stakeholders to influence and assist in providing insight to ensure key operational KPI's are robust and delivered * Owns the production of quarterly Market KPI's and Sales & Margin forecasts, producing accurate and robust targets, ensuring alignment with Ecommerce Trade teams * Coordination of Sales and Margin submissions, ensuring agreements with Ecom Director and Trade Director. * Owns the production of daily forecasts for Sales and Margin, as well as volume and distribution forecasts * Business Partner Trade Managers, providing insight and challenge on performance, along with risks and opportunities through weekly and monthly reporting * Owns specific cost lines within the month end accounting process, including accruals & prepayments, journal posting and analysis & commentary on variances to forecast. * Supports Business Partner in formulation of corporate quarterly forecasts, producing robust and accurate forecasts for specific cost lines. * Supports Business Partner in analysis of Market Conversion funnels, highlighting potential areas of opportunities to widen the funnel in individual markets. * Deliver consistent and compelling weekly business updates that provide concise, fact-based diagnostics regarding business performance, thereby facilitating timely decision-making. * Support Head of Digital to produce all Capex submissions, ensuring accurate costing of all costs and benefits (Ongoing) * Work with Head of Digital on building robust and deliverable Roadmap, supporting investigations into future technologies that will form the makeup of future roadmap * Consistent alignment with Trade and Marketing teams on all activity * Support the multi-channel team and ecommerce budget holders on any ad-hoc analysis * Challenge Business Partner on performance & ways of working to develop practises currently in place. About you: * Previous experience in a commercial environment, ideally with a retail background (Ecommerce experience desirable) and management accounting experience * Effective communication with Directors * Strong financial control skills * The ability to juggle a variety of tasks in a time pressured environment where re-prioritising is the norm * Solid analytical and data interpretation skills * Effective communication skills (both written and verbal) with the ability to challenge when required and work well within and across both finance and operational teams * Strong Excel skills (vlookup, hlookup, pivot tables etc) * Part or Qualified professional accounting qualification (CIMA / ACCA/ ACA) Why New Look? The amazing people, the love of fashion, the 4pm Friday finishes - there are so many reasons to love working at New Look. We offer training to support you and your career progression, so that you can be at your absolute best. You'll also receive these amazing benefits: * 40% staff discount * Monthly 25% off privilege vouchers for family and friends to enjoy * Quarterly sample sales * Season ticket loans Apply now to find out more
Permanent / Fixed Term Permanent Closing Date: 15/11/2019 Support Centre Location London Office More about the role Here, at New Look, everything that we do is for the love of fashion. We've been bringing the latest fashion to the high-street since 1969. We're now a global, multichannel brand offering on-trend, value-fashion for women, men and teenage girls. Even after 50 years we've stayed true to our original mission of delivering fabulous products at a price our customers can afford. We invented fast fashion and it's our colleagues today that continue our journey to create a New Look that everyone loves. It's our values that inspire us every day - we play to win, we are customer obsessed, we work as one...and it starts with you. We are always on the lookout for talented, passionate people to join our New Look team. The Role: * Business partner with key operational Ecommerce stakeholders to influence and assist in providing insight to ensure key operational KPI's are robust and delivered * Owns the production of quarterly Market KPI's and Sales & Margin forecasts, producing accurate and robust targets, ensuring alignment with Ecommerce Trade teams * Coordination of Sales and Margin submissions, ensuring agreements with Ecom Director and Trade Director. * Owns the production of daily forecasts for Sales and Margin, as well as volume and distribution forecasts * Business Partner Trade Managers, providing insight and challenge on performance, along with risks and opportunities through weekly and monthly reporting * Owns specific cost lines within the month end accounting process, including accruals & prepayments, journal posting and analysis & commentary on variances to forecast. * Supports Business Partner in formulation of corporate quarterly forecasts, producing robust and accurate forecasts for specific cost lines. * Supports Business Partner in analysis of Market Conversion funnels, highlighting potential areas of opportunities to widen the funnel in individual markets. * Deliver consistent and compelling weekly business updates that provide concise, fact-based diagnostics regarding business performance, thereby facilitating timely decision-making. * Support Head of Digital to produce all Capex submissions, ensuring accurate costing of all costs and benefits (Ongoing) * Work with Head of Digital on building robust and deliverable Roadmap, supporting investigations into future technologies that will form the makeup of future roadmap * Consistent alignment with Trade and Marketing teams on all activity * Support the multi-channel team and ecommerce budget holders on any ad-hoc analysis * Challenge Business Partner on performance & ways of working to develop practises currently in place. About you: * Previous experience in a commercial environment, ideally with a retail background (Ecommerce experience desirable) and management accounting experience * Effective communication with Directors * Strong financial control skills * The ability to juggle a variety of tasks in a time pressured environment where re-prioritising is the norm * Solid analytical and data interpretation skills * Effective communication skills (both written and verbal) with the ability to challenge when required and work well within and across both finance and operational teams * Strong Excel skills (vlookup, hlookup, pivot tables etc) * Part or Qualified professional accounting qualification (CIMA / ACCA/ ACA) Why New Look? The amazing people, the love of fashion, the 4pm Friday finishes - there are so many reasons to love working at New Look. We offer training to support you and your career progression, so that you can be at your absolute best. You'll also receive these amazing benefits: * 40% staff discount * Monthly 25% off privilege vouchers for family and friends to enjoy * Quarterly sample sales * Season ticket loans Apply now to find out more