management accountant London, England
Job description
About us
Dune London is the leading affordable luxury footwear and accessories brand in the UK, with broad distribution across both the UK and internationally. It has 50 stores in the UK and over 100 in 25 countries around the world. The company is entering a period of sustained growth both through additional stores, expansion of sales on its online channels and through third party partners both in the UK and globally. Celebrating its 30th anniversary the group has over the years built an enviable position as the specialist in quality fashion footwear and accessories which has given it a unique position at the high end of the high street.
The Role
Working within a fast-paced and entrepreneurial retail environment, this varied role is responsible for reporting, budgeting and forecasting for variable store and e-commerce costs. The role requires the development of collaborative working relationships across the retail and e-commerce teams, including with senior management.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting
- Responsibility for period end journals relating to variable store and e-commerce costs (as well as reconciling any related balance sheet accounts), ensuring any variances to budget are fully understood through discussion with relevant business partners
- Presenting variances to budget/forecast at flash review meetings
- Assisting with the production of management accounts board pack, including providing meaningful commentary on the P&L
- Assisting with the production of the weekly trade pack and other monthly, quarterly and annual stakeholder reports
- Responsibility for meeting internally set reporting deadlines
- Continually seeking ways to improve financial processes and how we use our systems
Planning
- Ownership of the annual budget for variable store and e-commerce costs: liaising with relevant business partners, reviewing business partner assumptions (and challenging these where appropriate), updating budget models, analysing trends and assisting with the preparation of the budget pack sent to senior management
- Responsibility for the maintenance of rolling forecasts for variable store and e-commerce costs
Business Partnering/Business Support
- Act as finance business partner to retail and e-commerce teams, working closely with key stakeholders to ensure that spending is proactively managed against budget and providing them with all necessary support to understand performance
- Working with the retail team on sales targets and store incentives
- Ad-hoc analysis and reporting for the business as required
Insight and Analysis
- Assisting the Commercial Finance Manager with analysis of trends and key business drivers, store/web profitability analysis, assessment of future business opportunities and other ad-hoc analysis as required
- Working with the business focusing on efficiencies and cost control including store payroll, web marketing and web fulfilment
ESSENTIAL
- ACCA/CIMA – part qualified
- Experience in a similar role - Management Accounting/Commercial Finance/FP&A
- Intermediate to Advanced MS Excel skills to create high quality analysis
- Good time-management skills with the ability to set priorities and meet deadlines
- Solid communication skills and ability to deal with non-finance personnel
- Self-starter with willingness to assume responsibility whilst working well within a team
- Ability to challenge and improve processes and procedures
- Ability to easily adapt to changing priorities and demands
About the perks
- Free Gym Membership
- Blended working – spreading your time across our office and remote working
- Brand new sustainable office in bustling West London (near Westfield)
- Friendly and open culture with flat structures allowing plenty of opportunity for development.
- Company growth and opportunity; Dune is opening new stores and channels and evolving all the time
- Open-minded company, welcoming thoughts and ideas to be shared
- Working with charitable organisations to help raise funds and give something back. Our current charity partner is Mental Health UK.
- 60% employee discount on Dune products – what’s not to love!
- 25 days holiday (plus the bank holidays)
- Cycle2work and season ticket loans
- Company pension scheme
- Life assurance for all team members
- We look after our people
- 3.00 p.m. finish every pay day Friday!
- Team socials and drinks – we like to have fun!
- Access to our employee assistance programme, retailTRUST, who provide loads of resources to support with wellbeing and personal development offer free counselling legal advice and financial guidance.
- Our own Wellbeing Allies – there to talk when you need them.
What happens next?
We will take a good look at your application and if we don’t feel we are right for you, we’ll make sure we let you know but sadly we are not able to give tailored feedback.
