Senior Finance Analyst - Digital Emea - 12 Month Fixed Term

Job Description

Dr. Martens is a globally recognisable and culturally influential British brand, with over 60 years of rich heritage. As brand custodians, we are lucky to work for a dynamic, thriving, and ethical business, with people from diverse backgrounds, who bringtheir true selves to work, and where anyone can grow their career. We are guided by three core values that are at the heart of everything we do: be yourself, act courageously, and show you care. They make us who we are and inspire us to push boundaries, embrace our individuality, and stand up for whats right. THE GIG Reporting into the Finance Business Partner (FBP), the role of the Senior finance Analyst - Digital is to provide commercial and financial support to the Ecommerce trading teams, assessing daily trade, and providing variance analysis,and assessing business cases to aid demand generation. We are hiring for this position on a 12-month fixed term basis. You will provide valuable business support to the teams to support with investment decisions, and ensure trade is on track to deliver ourambitious plans. As our Senior finance Analyst – Digital EMEA, you will:

• Provide commercial insight, financial planning and tracking progress against key strategic priorities set out in the EMEA strategy.
• Collaborate with the digital marketing team on a weekly basis to challenge the spend across all platforms, closely monitoring the ROI of campaigns and balancing spend across upper funnel activity to drive customer acquisition.
• Create and review business cases to obtain sign off for projects to drive growth and maximise profitability, including payment methods and on-site merchandising.
• Support the Finance Business Partner with the budget and forecasting process, in close collaboration with the Head of Ecommerce, trade, digital marketing and merchandising teams.
• Quantify risks and opportunities to achieve the growth plan, influencing the content, marketing, and trade teams, using insights to mitigate where necessary.
• Deliver month end, including calculation of accounting adjustments such as the returns provision.
• Deliver the monthly S&OP pack with thorough understanding of performance versus the forecast.
• Support with the implementation of pricing and planning of promotional events to maximise gross margin, whilst ensuring obsolete stock levels are closely monitored.
• Support and analyse the performance of our omni channel roll-out, collaborating with the Retail and Technology teams to enable and drive commercial insights for future decision making with a Direct-to-Consumer mindset.

THE STUFF THAT SETS YOU APART Put simply, for this role the key things we’re looking for are:

• Qualified accountant, or have appropriate background in a similar role, and are an experienced FP&A professional
• Experience in working with Digital channels in a retail environment, (omnichannel desirable).
• Ability to evaluate and challenge ROI with a commercial mindset
• Ability to build credibility with wide range stakeholders across the business in order to quickly work cross functionally
• Understand the detail and ensure accuracy, but also be able to summarise at an management level and present in a digestible format to senior stakeholders
• Ability to multitask and prioritise, working in a matrix organisation
• Great excel and PowerPoint skills, previous experience using D365 is desirable but not essential
• Ability to work proactively and autonomously, identifying and undertaking project work when required to improve a process

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

• Hybrid working
• Welcome to the family free pair of Docs
• 65% off all Docs
• Award-winning ‘Buy As You Earn’ Dr. Martens share plan
• Private healthcare
• A dedicated culture team
• 2 paid volunteer days per year
• Amazing Camden Town based office

Are you ready to fill your boots Apply now. At Dr. Martens, we are committed to creating an environment in which we can all be our best and bring our authentic selves to work. We encourage applications, regardless of race, colour, religion,gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, or disability. Diverse and inclusive teams have a positive impact on our brand; helping us to speak authentically to our consumers. We strive to developa business where our people can thrive and feel empowered to express themselves. Because we believe everyone should feel supported and included whatever their role in the Dr. Martens community. #LI-AH1