Senior Finance Manager - Digital
Job Introduction
At Selfridges, we surprise, amaze and amuse our customers. To deliver this, we need extraordinary teams. Our Finance Department are looking for an experienced Senior Finance Manager – Digital to join our London Finance team for a 9-12 month fixed term contract.
Role Responsibility
The Senior Finance Manager role has responsibility for Business Partnering with the Director of Digital and the Director of Supply Chain supporting the Head of Customer, Communications and Creative Finance.
This naturally curious individual will deliver an end to end financial service spanning planning, management accounts and commercial analysis. The chosen person in this role’s objective is to provide clear financial information to their business partner, supplemented with the relevant commercial insight that drives appropriate actions within the business.
This role is responsible for ensuring that clear, accurate, timely, reporting and analysis is delivered to their business partners to support robust planning, excellent cost control and profit driving commercial decision making and investments.
In conjunction with ad-hoc decision making the role is responsible for ensuring production of management accounts for their business areas understanding providing insight on historic performance, highlighting risk and opportunities and having a clear understanding of their balance sheet. The role is also has a responsibility to leading and supporting their business partners through the budgeting and forecasting process.
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate in this role will have experience in E-commerce trading finance and preferably E-Commerce marketing experience. Experience of working in Supply chain is also desirable. The successful candidate will be qualified and have significant line management experience.
Curiosity along with strong analytical and numerate skills are key in this position along with good verbal and written presentation skills. The successful candidate will be used to working effectively and collaboratively across functions while being flexible in their working style, and able to reprioritise effectively.
About the Company
Selfridges is a shop run on imagination: a place where the world’s most covetable brands combine with the most extraordinary spectacles, events and ideas for an experience like no other.
The story began when Harry Gordon Selfridge first arrived in London from Chicago in 1906 with his heart set on opening his dream store. With his revolutionary understanding of publicity and the theatre of retail, Selfridges Oxford Street opened its doors for the first time in 1909. The founder’s spirit of innovation and creativity lives on through its owners today. Since 2003, W. Galen Weston and his family have owned and operated the business, which now includes two stores in Manchester, one in Birmingham, plus selfridges.com and the Selfridges App which both deliver to over 130 countries.
In 2016 Selfridges was the first ever store to be awarded the title of ‘World’s Best Sustainability Campaign by a Department Store’ at the IGDS Global Department Store Summit, in-line with its focus on buying better and inspiring change. For an unprecedented three consecutive occasions in a row (2010, 2012 & 2014) Selfridges also won the coveted ‘Best Department Store in the World’ award, underlining its place at the forefront of retail.
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