Team Lead Markets Finance - Nordics
- Employer
- Zalando
- Location
- Berlin
- Closing date
- 29 Jun 2021
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- Function
- Strategy & Business Intelligence
- Level
- Manager
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Job Details
This role sits in Business Finance Organization ( BFO) and forms the key interface between Finance and the Businesses. In this role Team Lead Markets Finance - Nordics will serve as a genuine business partner to the General Manager Nordics. The successful candidate will help the GM Market to devise, execute and track their strategic, operational and financial plans. The Team Lead Markets Finance - Nordics will bring a strong commercial understanding of the business and its key value drivers to enable the successful development and execution of local Go-to-Market strategies, support key commercial steering and investment decisions and ensure the efficient scaling of our teams, processes and infrastructure. They will be a business-minded executive with a well-rounded financial expertise. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role that will have a direct influence on the day-to-day rhythm of Zalando's core consumer business and ensure its continued success.
The role will lead a team of 1-2 Finance professionals. The role reports with a solid line into the Director Markets Finance and dotted line to business into the GM markets.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
The role will lead a team of 1-2 Finance professionals. The role reports with a solid line into the Director Markets Finance and dotted line to business into the GM markets.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
- Serve as Finance co-pilot to the Markets organization supporting the GM Markets to shape the strategic go-to-market approach and to win in their local markets.
- Act as a key partner to achieve short, mid- and long-term business goals, track performance, and manage the Markets from a strategic, operational and financial perspective. You will constructively support, advice, challenge and influence business strategy and decisions and drive our long-term strategy
- Facilitate and deliver a seamless Finance proposition that brings to bear all Finance, Analytics & Tooling capabilities, incl. Planning, Forecasting, Steering, Reporting, and Performance Management as well as acting as the go-to-person for all Finance related matters (incl. Accounting, Tax, Financing, etc.)
- Translate the markets strategies and objectives into measurable operational and financial outcomes by developing trust with senior executives, engaging in constructive debate, and partnering with peer leaders, other business divisions, and across other finance functions.
- Play a key role in decision making around growth initiatives including entering new markets, changing the local customer proposition (e.g. local warehouse), taking commercial steering decisions and investing in teams and infrastructure.
- Support GMs in developing investment cases across commercial and non-commercial levers and flag trade-off decisions.
- Manage a team that continually interprets and analyzes commercial, operational and financial data of the Markets to provide insightful recommendations that accelerate growth and create value. This specifically includes the (a) creation of annual budget plans and preparation as well as critical review of investment decisions to make sure they fit the long-term strategy of the respective region/ country, (b) translation of commercial forecasts into P&L forecasts down to regional levels as well as corresponding interpretation, and (c) preparation of monthly/quarterly business reviews on market level.
- Provide swift re-prioritization and adjustments of plans and forecasts in close collaboration with Commercial Trading teams to react to rapidly changing business demands.
- A proven Finance business partner who can shape, develop, and drive a business strategy and play a key role in developing, executing and tracking go-to-market strategies and growth initiatives and in driving commercial and financial performance.
- A well-rounded senior finance leader with 10+ years expertise in developing a best-in-class function and team within a division of a global, complex organization of relevant size and scale. Demonstrated thought leadership in strategic thinking and problem solving.
- Track record of successfully leading teams through transformation and comfortable with a flexible, less structured environment where new ideas and processes are frequently (re-)designed and implemented.
- Experience in setting up business cases and driving financial conclusions, strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Meaningful exposure to a company with international/ global sales and operations. Experience within a consumer, data-focused and technology-driven business, preferably in a high growth environment.
- Excellent analytics skills, a passion for metrics and figures, understanding of P&L and the ability to get into the details. while also seeing and understanding the big picture.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken. Fluency in one of more of Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian or Danish is preferred but not mandatory
- Embraces the Zalando culture and vision. Develops a profound understanding of Zalando's customers' needs; advocates customer centricity across the organization.
- A workplace run on trust, empowerment and feedback; positive, inspiring working atmosphere
- Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
- Mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
- Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
Company
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 35 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty from over 3,000 international brands.
Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story.
Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. We focus on the fashion industry and therefore operate in a variety of business areas.
- Fashion Store
Zalando online shops are tailored to local customers’ needs in 17 different European markets. The range extends from renowned global brands and fast fashion to local brands and is supplemented by our private labels.
- Offprice
The Offprice business of Zalando serves the sale of previous season’s assortments. As part of a shopping club, the Zalando Lounge offers registered members exclusive sales campaigns at discounted prices.
- Zalando's Private Labels
Zalando’s private label assortment includes shoes, clothing and accessories for women, men and children. With a total of six private labels, Zalando creates its own products, covering the entire value chain from design to sales.
- Zalon
Zalon is our style advice service, via which customers can consult and get inspiration from selected stylists regarding individualized purchases.
- Zalando Marketing Services
The entirety of Zalando’s expertise and scope is bundled in Zalando Marketing Services, which now offers personalized marketing solutions for our brand partners.
- Zalando Fulfilment Solutions
Zalando makes its own logistics capabilities available to external partners, so they do not have to be concerned with infrastructure issues but can concentrate fully on their core competence in the fashion business.
- Zalando Partner Services
Zalando helps other players in the industry to be successful in the digital world. For example, by connecting warehouse stocks with multiple retailers, by digitizing processes involved in fashion wholesale and by integrating offline businesses into our Zalando platform.
With a strong workforce of around 14,000 employees of over 130 different nationalities, Zalando unites diverse people, capabilities and concepts. Consolidating our effort and ideas scales our impact as an innovator in Fashion, Technology, Digital Marketing and Logistics Operations.
Company info
- Website
- https://jobs.zalando.com/
- Telephone
- +49 (0)30 2759 4693
- Location
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Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany
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