Lead Fashion Store Overheads
Job Details
As a Team Lead Fashion Store Overheads you are the Finance go to person with respect to Overheads of Zalando's largest business unit. With your team you are responsible for financial analysis, planning & reporting duties and investment controlling tasks. Building on strong relationships with our senior management and through sharp financial analysis you provide transparency on spend to-date and guide our stakeholders through short and mid term decision making processes that are in line with our financial targets and strategy. You are part of the Business Finance Organization and report into the Director of Fashion Store FP&A.
In this role you will lead a team of 4-5 Finance professionals.
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 34 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.
In this role you will lead a team of 4-5 Finance professionals.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
- Ensure that we are not just presenting financials but sharing the context beyond the numbers
- Act as business partner to all department owners within the Fashion Store (Zalando's largest business unit) helping them to equip their function with the right resources to deliver the Zalando Group Strategy.
- Bring different functions together to ensure we have a holistic view that trickles down across the different functions
- Strengthen the financial literacy within the business units and by doing so enable better financial results
- Further shape steering processes and tools, and drive improvement initiatives ensuring we manage our total cost base effectively
- From day one you are leading, motivating, and developing a team, prioritizing and supporting them
- A well-rounded senior finance leader with 8+ years expertise in developing a best-in-class Finance function and team.
- Professional experience in a fast-paced environment and mastered complex, unstructured tasks with strong sense of ownership, drive and ability to organise
- Put yourself into customers shoes and be a fan and driver of collaboration across the organization and cross-functional teams
- Demonstrate financial thought leadership in strategic thinking and problem solving. Diligently combine and translate solutions into concrete action items from an organisational, processual and data driven perspective to ensure further business success and scalability
- Proven track record on driving impact and taking colleagues and stakeholders on our journey. Experiences in cost management projects are a plus
- 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
- Excellent analytics skills, a passion for metrics and figures and the ability to get into the details while also seeing and understanding the big picture
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken
- Embrace the Zalando culture and vision. Develop 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 and parent & child rooms
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 34 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.
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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