Senior Financial Analyst, Property

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The Role

To provide high quality financial support to the Global Retail Director and the Property team that manage the global store estate. This is a pivotal role in guiding strategic and operational decision making through financial review and analysis. Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance and business partnering with the Property function, this broad role encompasses all financial aspects of property management for the global store estate and head office locations. Investment appraisal, post implementation review and driving down occupancy costs are key activities in this varied, high profile and stretching role with exposure to the CEO and CFO on a regular basis.

You Will

• Be the key finance business partner for the property function, working closely with the property team and Global Retail Director
• Be accountable for the investment appraisal of new store opportunities, downsizes, lease regears and relocation decisions
• Provide high quality post investment appraisal analysis
• Be key to the strategic assessment of the store estate (including pivotal involvement in the planning & strategy process)
• Manage and monitor progress against financial deliverables within the property strategy, feeding in to financial management processes
• Be responsible for budgeting, forecasting and reporting all occupancy costs across the business
• Play a key role in ensuring the financial records are accurate and up to date, working closely with the Management Accounting and Accounts Payable functions

You Are

• A qualified accountant (ACCA or CIMA preferred); experience in Retail sector or property management would be highly desirable
• Highly commercial, with strong analytical ability and experience of investment appraisals
• Experienced in producing valuable insight, critiquing business cases and working with large volumes of data
• A structured, logical thinker who can solve problems and adapt to business needs
• Proactive, driven, resilient and able to work under your own initiative
• An effective communicator, with the ability to change your approach depending on audience
• Someone who thrives in a high profile role with tight deadlines, and able to balance the need for rapid response and maintaining accuracy / quality of outputs
• A confident individual, capable of dealing with Exec level challenge
• A team player, who can work with financial and non-financial colleagues at all levels of an organisation

Working for Superdry has never been so rewarding…

• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and an additional day off to celebrate your Birthday. We also offer a holiday buying scheme.
• Family is massively important to us, so we have a broad range of family-friendly working policies in place, including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Company Pension scheme
• All employees are covered by our Life Assurance policy whilst working at Superdry. We feel it’s important to offer protection for your family and loved ones in such a situation and to support this we offer life assurance cover which pays a lump sum equivalent either twice or four times your annual salary
• A big staff discount – naturally. Because we know that you love to wear Superdry, you’ll benefit from a 50% discount in store and online and our Head Office is home to our very own store for staff only where you can treat yourself to heavily discounted sample stock
• A health cash plan is open to all employees.
• Private Medical cover - a taxable benefit, which managers are eligible to opt in to
• Flexible working - to help you achieve that all-important work-life balance
• We want you to share in our success and so we have a choice of Share Save schemes you can opt into
• A global employee assistance plan in place that you can access anytime you want - it’s free and confidential
• You’ll also have access to a Cycle To Work Scheme and an excellent Car contract hire/purchase scheme along with a massive range of local discounts with businesses across Gloucestershire

At Superdry, everyone has a voice and we want to hear it. We create environments where individuality can flourish and is celebrated as part of who we are as a brand. We’re incredibly proud that over 90% of our people feel strongly that they can be themselves at work.

We want to meet people with varied backgrounds because we understand that diversity of thought encourages new ideas to thrive, fuelling creativity and enabling us to do better work. We want to build a team which represents a variety of backgrounds, styles, perspectives, and skills; we hire people based on their merit and potential.

We also welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Superdry and will always accommodate it where possible.

To support our Diversity & Inclusion agenda, we have introduced blind applications, which are a simple and straightforward practice during the first step of the hiring process. This means that some personal information, for example, name, gender and education history will be removed at application stage to prevent bias.

As we won’t be able to look at your CV, please make sure your profile is as detailed as possible.

Please also have a look at our career website. Here you can find information about the Growing Futures Programme, a scheme that supports applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds to apply for roles at our HO in Cheltenham.

Who we are

Superdry have been making world class product for 15 years, and we’re proud of it. Our mission is to inspire and engage the contemporary style obsessed consumer, whilst leaving a positive environmental legacy.

Together, we have built a brand that has cut through the global apparel market at record speed, taking market share from brands that have existed for decades. But we have a big opportunity ahead of us as we launch 4 new collections.

• We are now on an exciting journey to reset our brand and return to our design-led roots and we are looking for talented people to join us on our journey.