This role is critical to the commercial performance of the region as Clarks is on an exciting journey to establish itself as brand of choice across the region.
Key contributions
* Deliver financial and risk management framework for Franchise and Owned Stores.
* Business partner Head of functions to optimise commercial performance and investment strategies for the channels within the region.
* Big focus in partnering on overhead cost savings for stores. Looking to optimise Franchise performance and helping to support with cashflow modelling.
* Deliver effective financial insight to drive business performance and support optimal decision making.
Responsibilities
* Create annual forecasting and budgeting processes for revenue, overheads, and capital expenditure.
* Develop Key Performance Indicators to enhance transparency costs and Royalty calculations.
* Deliver complete store performance visibility across all aspects including business cases for store openings, closures and transfers with focus on profitability whilst also incorporating non-financial KPIs including Footfall and Conversion.
* Enhance reporting to provide deep trading and operational insight.
* Engage with Leadership to ensure understanding of performance versus financial plans.
* Provide constructive challenge to promote commercially astute decision making.
* Drive effective cost management of channel and regional overheads.
* Support Monthly Performance Reviews through delivery of concise insight and analysis.
* Evaluate investment strategies, develop store business cases, and complete post investment reviews to optimise return on investment.
Qualifications
* The ideal candidate is eager to join a brand with an exciting growth opportunity, a record of improving bottom line performances and has commercial finance business partnering experience gained in medium to large businesses.
* Professionally qualified accountant with two years of post-qualified experience with ACA (Chartered), ACCA (Certified) or CIMA (Management) qualification.
* Proven experience of attention to detail critical. A record of business partnering and operating credibly in influencing Senior Leadership, managing multiple stakeholders, and prioritising multiple workstreams.
* In depth knowledge and experience of planning, budget, and forecasting processes.
* Ability to apply sound judgment to accounting situations/questions.
* Extensive analytical experience with an ability to take large amounts of complex data and quickly identify key drivers and actions.
* Experience in adding value to business decision making, investment valuation, and working on large financial analysis projects.
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