Description
FINANCE MANAGER - LONDON - £300/£ Months
The work location is in LONDON and is a 3 - 4 months contract.
Pay rate is between £300 - £350 per day.
The role is working for a well established, multi-national retailer and specialises in clothing, home and luxury product.
Key accountabilities of the role include:
- Responsible for providing timely and accurate reporting of trading performance on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
- Responsible for providing insightful commentary that tells the story of channel performance and that looks not only at prior week/month performance but also looks ahead to key risks and opportunities
- Provide insight on the key profit drivers for the channel and key areas for focus
- Produce Food Category P&L's with insightful commentary that tell the story of performance and highlight the key profit levers
- Robust reporting of key performance metrics ensuring these are accurate and fully reconciled to financial data
- Competitor benchmarking against other online retailers to provide insightful analysis that can be shared with the Senior Leadership team
- Proactive stakeholder management to join the dots between each area of the channel to enable us to tell a holistic view of online performance that includes operational KPIs as well as Financial KPIs
- Key contact for Investor Relations queries at quarter end to provide key numbers and to help provide colour behind the numbers
- Proactive in looking for opportunities to improve processes to make them efficient as possible
Technical Skills
- Qualified accountant
- Previous experience in commercial finance
- Planning and Forecasting
- Business/Financial Analysis
- Natural curiosity of Retail/Online and the wider Retail market/competitive environment
Systems Skills
- Advanced Excel
- Other systems (eg SAP) is a benefit, but not essential
Key measures/KPIs:
- Timely delivery of accurate financial information for Budget, Forecast, 3YP and month end processes
- Accurate and timely reporting to Group finance supported by strong controls in the area
- Strong and constructive business partnering relationships
- Robust analysis that drives actionable insight
- Ability to connect and communicate effecmtively across the finance group to join the dots in a collaborative manner
If you are relevant or interested don't delay, contact me.