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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:
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
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