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!

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