FINANCIAL PLANNING & ANALYSIS SPECIALIST
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About this role
We're on the lookout for individuals who are passionate about fashion, think outside the box, and have an eye for innovation.
Unleash your potential with us, and join us as we create joy and excitement in our global community to empower people to express themselves freely through fashion.
Responsibilities:
Revenue Planning & Forecasting
- Sales Budgeting: Support budget and long-range sales planning by linking revenue targets to merchandising plans, inventory availability, product launches, and category strategies
- Rolling Forecasts: Build monthly or quarterly forecasts using key retail and merchandising drivers, including traffic, conversion, ATV, sell-through, stock cover, replenishment timing, and launch phasing
- Driver-Based Modelling: Translate inventory cover, sell-through, replenishment, markdown, and seasonal assumptions into sales outcomes
Performance & Variance Analysis
- Actual vs. Plan Tracking: Perform weekly and monthly variance analysis on retail sales against forecast and budget
- Channel & Category Analytics: Analyse sales performance by store, category, assortment mix, and region to identify growth opportunities, stock constraints, and sales risks
- Promotional & Markdown ROI: Assess campaign, markdown, loyalty, and clearance performance, including impact on sell-through, stock liquidation, sales uplift, and margin
Business Partnering & Reporting
- Business Partnering: Partner with commercial, merchandising, operations, and marketing teams to align pricing, assortment, stock-to-sales goals, and revenue forecasts
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Merchandising, Retail Management, or a related field
- Key skills: Revenue forecasting, merchandising planning, stock-to-sales translation, retail analytics, variance analysis, commercial storytelling, and business partnering
- 2 to 3 years’ experience in merchandising planning, demand planning, or commercial planning within a retail environment
- Strong understanding of how assortment mix, stock availability, sell-through, markdowns, and replenishment cycles impact sales forecasts and revenue performance
- Experience in Merchandising, allocation, retail planning, or demand planning who can connect stock-to-sales planning with commercial finance and business actions is an advantage
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience with Power BI or planning tools is an advantage
- Ability to turn data into clear insights, recommendations, and stakeholder-ready storytelling
- Confident partnering with merchandising, commercial, operations, and finance stakeholders
- Comfortable working with ambiguity, improving planning processes, and solving business problems
- Detail-oriented, analytical, and able to balance commercial judgement with financial discipline
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