Commercial Finance Analyst - FP&A
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Swoon EditionsRetail, Hospitality, FMCG, D2C
United KingdomFull-TimeMiddle
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Job Details
- Experience
- 2–3 years
- Required Skills
- SQLMicrosoft ExcelGoogle Sheets
Requirements
- 2–3 years in an FP&A or Commercial Finance role within retail, hospitality, FMCG, or D2C
- Understand inventory-heavy business models
- Started studying towards a professional accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
- Expert-level Excel
- Expert-level Google Sheets
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with BI tools like Sigma
- Ability to travel to London one day per week
Responsibilities
- Own the 3-Way Model: Take ownership of the integrated P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow + management of the rolling cash forecast
- Own the budgeting & reforecast: Lead the quarterly reforecast process and the 3-year strategic plan, ensuring all departmental assumptions are stress-tested
- Support with board Reporting: Support the FD in preparing monthly and quarterly board packs, translating complex variances into clear, actionable narratives for stakeholders
- Own SKU-Level Profitability: Partner with the merchandising and operations team to report on the "Margin Stack" from factory to front door
- Implement Trading Guardrails: Provide absolute clarity on trading performance across Swoon and Dropship partners, challenge assumptions and coordinate actions to hit target
- Sign off buying proposals: work with merch to build buying proposals and present to FD for sign off
- Returns & Failure Analysis: Work with Ops to monitor the cost of failure and own improvement roadmap
- Build automated reporting: Build dashboarding skills in BI tool (Sigma) and own finance automation roadmap
- Own variance analysis: monthly updates on performance, breaking down variance to target based on volume, price and mix
- Own monthly P&L reviews with business stakeholders: present overview of performance for each channel and drive improvements process
- AI roadmap: Support data manager with AI process improvements and roadmap
- Dropship Growth: End to end support from building and signing off P&Ls for new partners to reporting on profitability monthly and driving margin improvements
- Meeting Leadership: Join weekly trading sessions, support with financial decision making, escalate and mitigate risks quickly and help drive teams to capitalise on opportunities
- Business Case Appraisal: Act as a gatekeeper for ROI. Review business cases for new partners or Capex and provide a objective Approve/Reject recommendation to the FD
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