Department Information

The Financial Planning & Analysis department is responsible for determining the long-term financial strategy. The department consists of various areas including budgeting & forecasting, business controlling, business systems and treasury. All departments are responsible to support the European business. In the case of retail this includes Owned & Operated stores, Franchise stores (Full-Price, Outlet) and all Shop-In-Shop spaces. 

Retail controlling primarily coordinates the retail long-term strategy for the popular brands. Next to strategic multi-year planning this entails the quarterly country bottom-up forecasting process from kick-off, to consolidation, analyzing and reporting. On a monthly basis, in close cooperation with business controlling teams, the performance is analyzed and evaluated, leading to monthly re-estimates. Both consist of full P&L and CAPEX planning of our EMEA store base. Initiatives are set-up to improve the process, i.e. starting up system improvement projects (together with business systems) or dedicated retail planning workshops (with the country controllers as audience).

Position Description

The jobholder will report to the Manager FP&A Retail. The person will primarily be supporting the financial planning of the retail division and coordinating system and reporting improvement projects. The main tasks can be summarized as follows:

• Supporting the coordination of the quarterly country bottom-up forecasting process
• Monthly analysis and control on performance (sales, margins, OPEX, CAPEX) in close cooperation with business controlling leading to more accurate forecasting
• Driving system improvement projects to improve the budgeting & forecasting process
• Assist on the review of multi-year planning in general and more specific for new store openings (supplied by country controllers)
• Support in ad-hoc reports for senior management
• Key user of BPC NW and SAP BW, improving reporting and analysis

Position Requirements

• Minimum education level: Bachelor degree in Finance, Economics, Business or equivalent; Master Degree preferred
• Experienced: 3-4 years’ experience in the controlling team of a multinational (fashion) (retailer) or one of the big 4 accounting firms
• Strong working knowledge of Excel and Powerpoint
• Preferable working knowledge of BPC Netweaver and SAP Business Warehouse
• Fluent English (both written and spoken)

• Strong analytical skills (sales, margin, OPEX analysis etc.)
• Ambitious, motivated to learn
• No allergy to systems and flexible in case of deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Pleasure to work in multi-cultural & multi-lingual environment
• Goal oriented and structured
• High standard of ethics, integrity and confidentiality
• Excellent communication skills at all levels: written & verbal