More about the role

Here, at New Look, everything that we do is for the love of fashion.

We’ve been bringing the latest fashion to the high-street since 1969.  We’re now a global, multichannel brand offering on-trend, value-fashion for women, men and teenage girls.  Even after 50 years we’ve stayed true to our original mission of delivering fabulous products at a price our customers can afford.

It’s our colleagues today that continue our journey to create a New Look that everyone loves.

It’s our values that inspire us every day - we play to win, we are customer obsessed, we work as one and it starts with you.

We are always on the lookout for talented, passionate people to join our New Look team.

The Role:

• Provides an independent financial view to Heads of merchandising and Product Directors on budgeting, forecasting and other adhoc projects with specific focus on intake, distribution and stocks

• Ensure that the key business decisions are made with full understanding of the financial consequences

• Reviews merchandise forecasts and provides support and challenge to business colleagues, to ensure these forecasts are robust.

• Highlights risks and opportunities within BMD strategy to HoF, HoM and Product Directors, and suggests workable action plans & follow up on progress made

• Oversees the stock control process and works cross functionally with Merchandising, Branch Merchandising, Logistics and DC colleagues to ensure strategic alignment

• Improve gross margin through support in supply chain cost reduction projects

• Manages multi-currency monthly cash flow intake and sales forecasts, working with Treasury to highlight any risks to cash management

• Provides trading commentary to finance colleagues for inclusion in management accounts and CFO presentations

• Review weekly/monthly freight reports and ensure an independent financial view is provided to the business on the Freight reporting

• Understand and explore opportunities to save on Supply Chain costs (e.g. Freight methods, Storage costs) without compromising the quality of the garments

• Oversee budget submission for Freight by subdivision and work with Heads of to communicate actual performance versus budget

• Oversee PO compliance across BMD teams to ensure POs are raised and allocated correctly.

• Ensure that the key business decisions are made with full understanding of the financial consequences

• Ensure uplift calculator is up to date with relevant business assumptions and acts as a robust tool for BMD team to derive margin expectations

• Working with Supply Chain and Supply Base team to understand intake expected in the near future and keep track of stock position at storage sites.

• Oversee Freight forwarder invoices and any queries around AASC, storage and other costs.

• Work closely with Supply Chain to optimise container capacity by loading the container in the most efficient way, without compromising the quality of garments.

• Support verifying rebate amounts and follow through with Supplier to ensure rebates can be processed in a timely manner

• Manage an analyst to ensure regular and ad hoc tasks are completed in a timely manner to a high standard.

About You:

Essential Skills

• Highly numerate and analytical, with strong attention to detail

• Able to produce and interpret information from complex data, and present clear, compelling findings for both finance and non-finance colleagues

• Strong commercial awareness and experience of managing cost budgets

• Understands key components which drive profit i.e. sales, markdown and buy in margin, how they interact and the relationships between these elements

• Strong interpersonal skills, clearly articulate finance concepts to employees of all levels

• Able to remain composed under pressure and prioritise tasks effectively to meet deadlines

• Systems literate (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Business Objects)

• Advanced Excel skills

• Adaptable to change

• Enthusiastic, proactive problem solver and self-starter

• Shows awareness of current performance and Brand strategy, and implications of current performance on this

• Strong team player who is confident and personable

Why New Look?

The amazing people, the love of fashion, the 4pm Friday finishes – there are so many reasons to love working at New Look.

We offer training to support you and your career progression, so that you can be at your absolute best.

You’ll also receive these amazing benefits:

• 40% staff discount

• Monthly 25% off  privilege vouchers for family and friends to enjoy

• Quarterly sample sales

• Season ticket loans

We’re sure that you’re as excited as us to get back to some level of normality soon. While we’ve always championed our smarter working policy, COVID has changed the way we work remotely. We’re dreaming of those days where we’re able to meet and collaborate in the office again and when we do, we expect to maintain a flexible approach, balancing time between home and office. This is always role dependant so worth covering off in any conversations you have throughout the process.

Apply now to find out more.