Swoon

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Own the 3-Way Model: Take ownership of the integrated P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow + management of the rolling cash forecast
• Own the budgeting & reforecast: Lead the quarterly reforecast process and the 3-year strategic plan, ensuring all departmental assumptions are stress-tested.
• Support with board Reporting: Support the FD in preparing monthly and quarterly board packs, translating complex variances into clear, actionable narratives for stakeholders.
• Own SKU-Level Profitability: Partner with the merchandising and operations team to report on the "Margin Stack" from factory to front door. You will flag risks and coordinate margin improvement strategies to ensure we hit our targets
• Implement Trading Guardrails: Provide absolute clarity on trading performance across Swoon and Dropship partners, challenge assumptions and coordinate actions to hit target
• Sign off buying proposals: work with merch to build buying proposals and present to FD for sign off
• Returns & Failure Analysis: Work with Ops to monitor the cost of failure and own improvement roadmap
• Build automated reporting: Build dashboarding skills in BI tool (Sigma) and own finance automation roadmap. Replace manual data pulls to free up your time for high-level analysis.
• Own variance analysis: monthly updates on performance, breaking down variance to target based on volume, price and mix
• Own monthly P&L reviews with business stakeholders: present overview of performance for each channel and drive improvements process
• Dropship Growth: End to end support from building and signing off P&Ls for new partners to reporting on profitability monthly and driving margin improvements
• Meeting Leadership: Join weekly trading sessions, support with financial decision making, escalate and mitigate risks quickly and help drive teams to capitalise on opportunities.
• Business Case Appraisal: Act as a gatekeeper for ROI. Review business cases for new partners or Capex and provide a objective Approve/Reject recommendation to the FD.

Commercial Finance Analyst