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