Reporting to the Head of Finance in the UK, the role will take ownership of the long-term financial strategy for the division, ensuring key proposition decisions are underpinned by a clear strategic and financial rationale. The role will lead strategic business cases across the full customer proposition. This will involve building robust financial models, evaluating commercial trade-offs and supporting Investment Committee papers for significant decisions. This creates an opportunity to play a central role in shaping the next phase of the business while building broad strategic and commercial finance experience within a fast-growing digital business.
Key Duties:
- Strategic Business Partnering: Lead the financial assessment of significant strategic and proposition decisions across the business developing robust business cases, scenario modelling and Investment Committee papers to support investment and prioritisation decisions.
- Planning: Lead the financial thinking through Budget and Long-Term Plan cycles, challenging senior stakeholders and ensuring plans are robust, strategically aligned and reflect the key choices and opportunities facing the business.
- Commercial & Range Strategy: Partner with the Head of Commercial to develop the business range and category strategy, bringing external market insight and financial challenge to key decisions. Lead the continued development of economics, including commission structures, back margin and seller propositions.
- Customer Proposition: Partner with the Customer team to shape the customer proposition strategy, providing financial leadership across areas including loyalty mechanics, marketing investment and customer incentives.
- Operations & Fulfilment Strategy: Partner with the Head of Operations to define the division’s fulfilment and Retail Media strategies, leading the financial assessment of key proposition choices including delivery and returns, subscription models.
- FP&A Performance & Team Leadership: Take overall ownership of financial performance, ensuring management accounts and reporting provide clear insight into key drivers, risks and opportunities. Lead and develop the FP&A role and wider supporting Finance team overseas, setting clear direction and coaching the team to deliver high-quality, efficient outputs with an increasing focus on insight and analysis.
Success in this role will mean Finance is at the heart of the business’decision-making, providing the insight, challenge and strategic thinking needed to shape the proposition and support the next phase of growth.
For the individual, the role provides broad exposure to senior stakeholders and significant strategic and commercial decisions, alongside the opportunity to peer lead and develop a team member. It will suit someone who enjoys combining strategic thinking with commercial finance, is comfortable challenging and influencing senior stakeholders, and thrives in the ambiguity and pace of a start-up environment.
Experience Required:
Accountancy qualification – ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
Proven experience driving strategic priorities in large, fast-paced organisations.
Ability to communicate complex financial data and analysis in a clear, concise and persuasive manner to both financial and non-financial audiences
Experience collaborating with senior colleagues across functions.
Strong financial analysis and modelling skills.
Experience in planning and budgeting.
Retail industry experience is preferred, specifically related to eCommerce
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