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Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell unique fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.

The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.

Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

The Team

The Strategic Finance function is expanding to better support the business structure and scaling up. Following the recent Etsy acquisition, the requirements on strategic finance and analysis are becoming more complex and of increasing operational importance. With the recent arrival of the new Head of Strategic Finance, the team is evolving to provide best in class commercial insight in the context of a US listed business: extending across reporting, KPI analysis, process improvement, budgeting/forecasting and strategic planning support.

The Role

The Finance Business Analyst is a pivot role among the Strategic Finance Team, ensuring accurate, robust and timely performance analysis and reviews to key stakeholders. This person will gain great exposure to the finance and compliance team as well as senior stakeholders within the business and will be trusted to support their continued growth.

This is a partnering role that will support the business to make important decisions by implementing impactful reporting. This exciting role will be suited for someone with experience in both hands-on and strategic solutions in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

We’re looking for an experienced, practical individual who is prepared to work as part of a team but also has a good level of autonomy and confidence in their own decision making. This individual will need to be comfortable generating solutions and results in an environment where data and processes are still evolving with high growth.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a key point of contact for its stakeholders across our key business areas.
• Implement key performance analysis and reporting on both respective and forward looking.
• Closely work with the accounting and compliance team to support performance analysis.
• Key contribution for ensuring that monthly forecasts reflect the latest outlook, reviewing and challenging assumptions and ensuring any known risks and opportunities are understood and communicated.
• Contribute towards the medium term planning, annual budgeting and consolidated forecasting processes for the whole business.
• Actively participate in embedding wider budget discipline and process efficiency across the business.
• Provide analysis and assessment of performance against the agreed budget and monthly plans, identifying trends and making recommendations for improvements.
• Deep dive into key investment areas to identify contribution and performance compared to plan and other benchmarks.
• Partner with the business to provide analysis, financial modelling and forecasts in line with new commercial and growth opportunities.
• Suggest & contribute to process efficiency for monthly and quarterly KPI performance monitoring as well as for forecasting purposes. E.g leveraging new systems and automating reporting.
• Support the strategic finance team in identifying/tracking strategic initiatives, monitoring company performance and margin improvement opportunities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with Accounting qualification completed (CIMA, ACCA).
• Significant experience in similar business partnering roles or financial planning and analysis, ideally experience within a fast paced environment.
• Strong financial modelling skills and advanced use of Microsoft Excel - able to manipulate large datasets and use complex formulas.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to present financial concepts to non-finance managers.
• Organised, strong analytical skills, strategically focused, detail-oriented, and able to deal with ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team. Natural curiosity for improving things and proactively taking initiative.

Desirable:

• Previous exposure working with senior business stakeholders on budgets and supporting strategic decision making and driving change.
• Experience in implementation of new processes or BI/forecasting tools.
• Experience in a similar role within a high growth, eCommerce or SAAS environment is a plus.
• Ability to work well on tight deadlines, whilst able to prioritise across multiple tasks.

Benefits

Health + Mental Wellbeing

• Cash-plan or PMI - you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
• Subsidised counselling and coaching - we partner with Selfspace to provide you the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person
• Cycle to Work scheme - choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your commute
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - have access to a confidential support network of expert advice 24/7
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have trained individuals across the business to offer support and signposting

Work/Life balance

• 25 days annual leave with the option to carryover up to 5 days
• 1 company-wide day off per quarter, for you to take some time for yourself and decompress
• 2 activism days per year for you to use for volunteering, demonstrations or internal initiatives
• We offer sabbaticals for our long serving employees.

Flexible Working

We’re Flexa® accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working;

• We'd love you to head to your nearest Depop office once a week, but feel free to work from home the rest of the week!
• Want to head into the office more? No problem, you can opt to be "Office-Based", with your very own desk.
• Do you do your best work from home? You can also request to be a remote worker, and only head into the office 4 times per year *role dependent

• In the office, we provide healthy snacks, tea and coffee and the occasional surprise treats!
• All of our offices are also dog-friendly! Do your best work with your best friend.
• Apply to work abroad 4 weeks of the year (in UK tax treaty countries)

Family Life

• Maternity + Paternity Leave, plus adoption leave, IVF leave, shared parental leave + paid emergency parent/carer leave

Learn and Grow

• We offer a personal learning budget for every employee and also sponsor and run a myriad of programmes, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us.

Your Future

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)

And finally, as a valued Depop employee We waive all of our employees’ fees when they sell on Depop and also ship your sold items anywhere in the UK for free using our team’s account