Swoon

Commercial Finance Analyst

Swoon

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Tech Stack

SQL

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • Experience: 2–3 years in an FP&A or Commercial Finance role within retail, hospitality, FMCG, or D2C. You must understand inventory-heavy business models.
  • Qualification: has started studying towards a professional accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
  • Technical Skills: * Expert-level Excel/Google Sheets (Financial modelling is your second language).
  • Experience with (or a burning desire to master) SQL and BI tools like Sigma
  • Mindset:
  • Proactive: You don't wait to be told there is a risk; you find it and bring the solution.
  • Direct: You can hold your own in a room with the CEO, FD and Department Heads.
  • Operational: You care about the how things work operationally as much as the impact on the P&L
  • - Can travel to London one day per week
Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Share options programme
  • Profit share scheme
  • Wellbeing allowance
  • Pension scheme
  • Private medical cover for you and your family
  • Holidays, working environment and other perks
  • 27 days holiday rising to 30 with tenure
  • 4 months of summer hours finishing at 1 PM on a Friday (we’re currently trialling rolling this out permanently!)
  • Free furniture on each anniversary of employment
  • Friends & family discount of 20%
  • Remote working 4x days per week
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingvariance analysisbudgetingreforecastingprofitability analysiscost analysisautomated reportingdata analysiscash flow managementP&L management
Soft Skills
proactivedirectoperationalleadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingcollaborationdecision making
Certifications
ACCACIMAACA