Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation :

The Senior Manager Retail Finance acts as a financial consultant and business partner to the Global Retail team by giving recommendations to enable and drive fact-based decision-making. The Senior Manager Retail Finance supports and steers the business to achieve (financial) targets as well as the strategy based on the analysis of the major financial KPIs. This is supported by the creation of transparency about business performance.

Key Responsibilities :

Business Partnering

Act as the financial business partner for the Global Retail Sr. Management and their teams

Drive deep-dives to advise Sr. Management about opportunities and risks in reaching commercial ambitions within global retail business

Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations and solutions

Act as a facilitator between Global Sales Finance, Business Partners and finance key counterparts in the markets to support market needs

Lead medium- to large sized projects in partnership with Global Retail team, implement findings and ensure sustainability of achievements

Innovation & Strategy

Design, develop and implement state of the art analytic tools (PowerBI)

Define and ensure sustainable implementation of an innovative KPI framework combining  financial and non-financial KPIs

Significantly contribute to the achievement of the Retail and Sales Finance strategy

Develop new processes, standards or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on the department and overall targets

Go after efficiency and simplification in analysis, reporting and communication. Less is more

Promote and implement benchmarking and best practice sharing within Sales Finance

Reporting, Analysis & Expertise

Lead the financial review of worldwide retail channel activities to conduct the overall annual financial goal of the company

Create transparency in business performance and profitability to support fact-based decision making, covering Retail KPIs and store P&L

Identify opportunities and risks, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions

Drive and ensure solid reporting set up in dynamic environment, ensuring legalities and confidentiality requirements are met

Ensure that Retail standardized reporting and ad hoc analysis is consistent with the Corporate FP&A team

Ensure Retail Finance is compliant with all applicable group policies

Key Relationships :

Sr) Vice President Retail and sub-teams (Retail Operations, Retail Transformation, Retail Merchandising)

Market Retail Finance Teams

Global and Regional Retail Sales teams on all hierarchical levels

Corporate Controlling team on all hierarchy levels

Global Business Services and Global IT

Global data management team

Other functions in DtC (e.g. Real Estate, Product Planning)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

Comprehensive Retail business understanding combined with excellent finance and analytical skills

High degree of customer orientation, ability to see the customer’s point of view and to bring opinions of his / her own

Thorough understanding of the complexity, interactions and dynamics of an international company

Ability to manoeuvre in consistently changing and fast-pacing environment

Ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers

Strength in conceptualization and frame-working

Excellent communication skills for persuasion and convincing others

Strong result orientation and pro-activity –hands on approach

Ability to think and act strategically and develop operational plans

Excellent finance skills and solid skills in building effective simulations

Excellent knowledge of PowerBI; skills to develop state of the art dashboards based on a large amount of data from several sources; basic SQL knowledge

Excellent knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint; analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications :

University degree in Business Administration / Finance / Controlling

Comprehensive understanding of system landscape

5-10 years working experience in Finance department