Jimmy Choo Senior Manager, Global Digital and Client Finance

Jimmy Choo; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury fashion brand seeks a Senior Manager, Global Digital and Client Finance to oversee all financial planning, accounting, and reporting for digital channels. Candidates should have a professional accountancy qualification and ideally experience in retail finance. This role demands strong analytical skills, leadership, and the ability to influence senior management. Location: London, UK. Competitive salary package offered.

Qualifications

• Professional accountancy qualification (ACA or equivalent) required.
• Experience in a digital retail environment is ideal.
• Strong technical financial background necessary.

Responsibilities

• Set agenda for digital finance with timely reporting.
• Deliver accurate accounting and performance analysis.
• Lead financial planning and forecasting cycles globally.
• Evaluate commercial digital opportunities for financial return.
• Manage financial operations within the channel.

Skills

Formal professional accountancy qualification (ACA or international equivalent)

Technical financial and retail background in a digital environment

SAP

Hyperion

Strong communication skills

Decision Making

Collaboration and influence

Coaching ability

Analytical skills

Commercial acumen

Education

Formal accountancy qualification

Tools

SAP

Hyperion

Job description

Job Title: Senior Manager, Global Digital and Client Finance

Department: Digital and Client, Global

Reporting to: Chief Client Officer, CFO Jimmy Choo (Dotted Line)

The role is finance business partner for the Chief Client Officer (CCO). The role is responsible for all accounting, financial planning and analysis for digital channels, including wholesale online partnerships, for the global Jimmy Choo business.

The individual will be responsible for the operating performance of global digital, delivering budgets, forecasts, financial and commercial accounting, reporting and analysis for the channel. The role will work closely with all the JC regional finance teams to ensuring alignment of the accounting and forecasting for digital and client.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Set an agenda for digital and client finance which delivers accurate and timely accounting and reporting to the business, insightful analysis and commercial finance input aligned with the digital financial strategy of delivering sales and gross margin improvement, controlled expenditure and investment to deliver profit growth
• Deliver timely and accurate accounting and reporting for global digital and client business. Build a deep understanding of the accounting and commercial requirements for the digital and client business
• Leading all financial planning and reforecast cycles including annual budgets and reforecasts for the channel globally, ensuring that forecasts are robust and reflect the impact of commercial developments across the digital business, identifying and evaluating risks and opportunities, including actions to gap close where necessary.
• Lead the review and assessment of all commercial digital proposals, applications, new business opportunities for financial return and recommending go/no go, ensuring that the investment appraisal model is fit for purpose
• Lead the reporting, analysis and explanation of performance to CCO, CFO, CEO, Regional Presidents and Capri, including variance analysis of performance, evaluation of digital and client investments, sales and gross margin and promotional activities.
• Highlight future performance concerns and opportunities from forward looking analysis and evaluate options and investments required to drive business harder or close gaps across the global business
• Develop and implement commercial propositions for digital expansion across major global wholesale partners
• Own the continuous development and improvement of the digital and client accounting and forecasting and planning system including the development and roll-out of best practice methodology
• Detailed understanding of what investments drive profitable sales and these are replicated/repeated and stop non or under-performing investments
• Work with the business leaders to bring CRM insights into the development of commercial propositions, OTB process, regional merchandising and Omni-channel trading
• Manage the channel financial operations to:
  • Lead, manage and continuously improve financial reporting for the channel, ensuring that any reporting requirements are accurate and delivered on time, in full
  • Develop, continuously improve the financial control environment across the channel, ensuring group and local control compliance
• Continuously challenge and optimise cost, promotional spend and capital expenditure to ensure a return on investment
• Work with group finance and planning to improve the productivity of inventory in the warehouse and stores.
• Recruit, lead and manage the digital and client finance team, developing the team to support the global business, the Jimmy Choo and Capri Group finance teams

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Formal professional accountancy qualification (ACA or international equivalent)
• Technical financial and retail background ideally in a digital environment
• SAP and Hyperion
• Drive for Results: Communicates persuasively to win support, minimises or removes barriers that get in the way of achieving results and leverages understanding of key business drivers to deliver results
• Decision Making: Makes the right short-term decisions without sacrificing long-term results.
• Collaborates and influences well and is able to influence at a senior level in the organisation through reasoning and relationships.
• Builds Talent: Encourages and coaches people to build their skills; gives constructive, actionable feedback to help people improve their performance.
• Creates an Inclusive Culture: Values and leverages people with different perspectives and experiences whilst fostering a positive and inclusive work environment
• Does not get lost in the detail but know how to identify issues and go deep.

Characteristics Required

• Inspirational
• Commercial acumen
• Analytical, strategic, detail-conscious
• Team leader, approachable, coach
• Able to act as an ambassador for the Jimmy Choo brand internally and externally
• Problem solver
• Resilient
• Self-starter and able to prioritise between competing tasks

At Capri, we are all responsible for creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We try to inspire change and growth within each other and believe success is a result that comes from our differences. Capri is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusivity regardless of age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. M/D/F/V