Job Description

This will encompass responsibility for budgeting and forecasting, modelling and evaluation of commercial initiatives, and reporting/analysis for the ecommerce channel. You will have a full understanding of what the ecommerce/digital roadmap looks like over the current and future years to deliver our targets. You will be an effective challenger to ensure we are hitting our potential as a team.

Main responsibilities:

• Monitor and review weekly ecommerce metrics/KPIs, pro-actively understanding and highlighting any impact these may have on financial results.
• Supporting the ecommerce team with optimizing digital marketing expenditure to drive incremental sales
• Work collaboratively the Management Accounts team to ensure the monthly financial results for the retail business are completed accurately and on time.
• Attend monthly review meetings with business partners to review periodic financial performance, providing insight to any variances, and proactively highlight any risks and opportunities to budget/forecast.
• Proactively partner with the ecommerce leadership team to ensure delivery of financial targets, ensuring commercial decisions are taken with full consideration and evaluation of their financial impact.
• Work with the relevant business partners to understand the medium-term plan and translate this into a robust and accurate annual budget
• Provide appropriate level of challenge to ensure budgets that align with the strategic objectives of the business.
• Responsible for submitting and loading the annual budget into Hyperion Planning system
• Present ecommerce budget to senior leadership in budget review meetings, highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Work collaboratively all relevant business stakeholders to develop a continuous feedback approach to ensuring risks and opportunities are highlighted and can be addressed/reflected in the quarterly forecasts.
• Attend forecast meetings with relevant business partners to deliver accurate sales and margin forecasts, in line with strategic objectives, providing challenge where appropriate.
• Work with business partners on commercial initiatives, supporting with financial modelling and business cases
• Ad-hoc analysis and projects
• Providing analysis and performance insight for quarterly trading updates

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Previous experience working within a retail/ecommerce environment
• Strong understanding of ecommerce/omnichannel business and its drivers of performance
• Qualified CIMA/ACCA accountant with minimum of 1-year PQE
• Proficient with systems – Strong Excel skills, and experience in Microsoft AX and Hyperion Planning desirable
• Drive, enthusiasm, and passion for retail
• Team player
• Pro-active and open nature for business partnering, collaboration and providing challenge
• Confident and effective communicator
• Analytical mind and an aptitude for working with data and figures
• Ability to be self-sufficient and enjoy being hands on
• Motivated by new challenges, looking to make improvements and drive change
• Ability to work to tight deadlines