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.

An amazing opportunity for a Senior People Finance Analyst.  The post holder will constructively challenge and re-evaluate the People team reporting requirements to improve efficiency and commerciality. They will also ensure People systems and records are reconciled with all other systems and finance ledgers and that the appropriate financial controls are in place. Identifying key trends in People Data to ensure key decisions can be made.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for reviewing and developing best control processes between People team & Finance to enable accurate and timely transactional posting.

• Provide support to the Finance BP, to develop reporting best practice and enabling consistency across functional areas.

• Retail management structure reporting – Working closely with the Retail Finance team

• Proactively review all People team reporting to highlight areas of risk and opportunity, offering insight and opinion.

• Hold monthly cost reviews with the budget holders in the People team, including the People Director, tracking costs vs budget and forecast alongside providing analysis and recommendations. Liaising with this population to support the Finance BP in creation of the budget and quarterly forecasts.

• Align with People & Finance Business Partners, to ensure standard reports are meeting customer needs.

• Build processes to automate People data reporting and management reporting tools.

• Align with People & Finance Business Partners to ensure standard reports are meeting customer needs.

• Support all People teams to provide financial implications and recommendations of legislation and internal actions. This to include National Living Wage analysis and recommendations, Gender Pay reporting and insight, Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting and insight, P11d reporting, bonus and pay review calculations, HR system changes, pension support and Internal structural change implications.

• Support the Payroll team with the reconciliation of the payroll balance sheet (including season ticket loads), being the conduit between Finance and Payroll to ensure accurate accounting of costs. To additionally include review of the People costs on the P&L and liaising with core accounting to support in accurate posting of HR costs.

• Support in the completion of government surveys – e.g ONS, Quarterly business survey, Business Register and Employment Survey

• Design and create ad hoc reports to support the reporting requirements of the business and People team.

• Support the HRIS project as and when required.

• Presentation of key financials to the People team at their monthly leadership meeting

About You:

• Relevant practical experience gathered across a range of roles in a broad profit-driven business context.

• A part or recently qualified accountant who understands the financial implications of decisions and can make sound recommendations accordingly.

Essential skills/knowledge

• Ability to de-mystify financial & non-financial information.

• Provide clear and concise reporting and analysis resulting in balanced guidance and judgement.

• Strong financial control skills.

• Analytical mind with attention to detail.

• Clear written, oral, and presentational communication skills.

• Excellent PC skills to include Excel, Powerpoint, and databases.

• Comprehensive and fully developed understanding of HR, commercial, financial, and operational metrics.

• Continued re-evaluation and development of financial reporting and analysis.

• Open and receptive to new ideas and concepts

• The ability to juggle a variety of tasks in a time pressured environment where re-prioritising is the norm.

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.