Who we are

We are digital first, omni-channel, customer obsessed, female led and inclusive, focused on creating meaningful relationships with our community, who we owe our success to. We are looking for someone special to join our team to help us make luxury something we can all enjoy everyday.

Monica Vinader is a private equity backed omni-channel retailer operating globally. The business operates across eCommerce, multi-site retail and wholesale channels. The company directly controls and accounts for subsidiaries in the UK, US, China, Hong Kong and Singapore and achieved sales of over £100m in the most recent financial year.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a PE backed growing DTC business.

Where we need your help

We have all the makings of an iconic brand - beautiful products that are timeless and designed to last, service that exceeds our customers expectations, a passionate founder that cares deeply about doing what is right and a loyal and growing community who advocate for us.

Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, you will be responsible for accurately reporting and analysing the Group’s financial performance.

You will be pro-active, demonstrate attention to detail, be driven to implement improvements and utilise strong communication skills to work efficiently in finance and across the business.

What you’ll do

• Month End – completing month end reconciliations and analysis for reporting. Including sales and store reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and intercompany reconciliations
• End to end ownership of a foreign entity
• Tax management for a foreign entity
• Reconciling bank transactions and accounts, expenses and credit cards
• Stock reconciliations – performing detailed reviews and reconciliations of month end stock levels
• Financial Year End and Audit – supporting the audit and statutory financial statements process
• Gross margin analysis – reviewing and reporting channel and product margins and other associated costs
• Cash flow forecasting – contributing to weekly and monthly currency cash flow projections
• Assisting with the departmental, Board and Private Equity reporting and analysis – producing and communicating numbers to cost centre and commercial heads
• Developing robust internal financial controls in areas of responsibility
• Proactively explore and make recommendations for process improvement in finance and across the business
• Ad hoc finance projects

What you’ll bring

Essential

• • Part Qualified ACCA, CIMA or ACA
• • Educated to degree level or AAT qualified
• • Experience with IFRS and Group accounting
• • Proven experience working in a finance team
• • Keen attention to detail
• • Self-motivated and well organised
• • Strong communication skills - confident talking to internal staff
• • Proactive – able to generate new ideas and more efficient ways of working
• • Team player
• • Able to work to monthly deadlines
• • An aptitude for IT – proficient with Microsoft Excel, Word and other standard software packages

Desired

• Used Sage accounting system (preferably Sage 200)

• Experience with dealing with sales reconciliations and stock accounting
• Fast paced and high growth business experience
• Retail background