Finance Partner - Business Finance Analyst - eCommerce

Client seeks a Senior Business Finance Analyst to be a key business partner with the Retail teams. The organisation is continuing to expand its successful retail business world-wide, and we are looking for a highly motivated leader who will partner the vendor management team and will be responsible for key business KPIs on In-Stock; working capital investment; Inventory Reserve for the business category.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, detail oriented and will possess the ability to work well with cross-functional teams including corporate finance; vendor management and category management teams; AR, Accounting, and software development teams.

Primary Responsibilities :

- Deep dive on impact of selection plans of the vendor management team and planned purchases. Review impact on working capital and guide business on corrective steps to keep working capital healthy

- Monitor in stock of selection on the platform, as well as slow inventory to avoid inventory reserves.

- Continuous benchmarking of existing vendor terms and drive towards improved terms year on year.

- Identify key vendor funding opportunities to improve credit terms and in effect working capital investment.

- Drive the P&L of the business by highlighting CCOGS opportunities and creating accountability in the system.

Desired qualifications :

- 6+ years of experience in business finance. Chartered Accountant / MBA Finance.

- Strong analytical skills

- Experience working with cross-functional teams