Do you love thinking analytically? Are you passionate about using your financial knowledge to navigate complex challenges? Just as our customers find value in Apple products, the Finance group finds value for both Apple and its shareholders. As part of this group, you’ll play an integral role in ensuring our day-to-day financial health. You and your team will support Apple’s growth, both top and bottom line, by applying the same level of innovation toward financial matters as we do toward our products and services. You’ll also collaborate with Apple teams across the world to develop more effective investment strategies and risk management. Finance is essential to upholding our global commitment to excellence, and it is directly responsible for shaping the company’s future. Join us, and you’ll have a meaningful role in continuing Apple’s legacy of efficiency and success. Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Apple Retail Finance is looking for an energetic, motivated, and curious individual with strong analytical and interpersonal skills, ready to take on new challenges.
Description
The EMEIA Retail Finance team is looking for a highly motivated Finance Analyst to transform commercial insight and reporting and drive performance improvement across our physical and digital Retail stores. Based in London, this role will serve as a critical business partner to the EMEIA Global Retail Support and Field teams and will partner with the WW Finance and Analytics teams to build Retail programs and promotions business cases; develop insight and analysis to better understand Retail sales performance and enhance data, tools and analytics to support commercial insight and growth. Our ideal candidate will demonstrate deep commercial acumen, a passion for Retail and for developing management systems to deliver action-oriented insight, fast. They should have a history of building strong cross-functional partnerships, and the ability to deal with ambiguity and deliver innovative solutions. A highly motivated and proactive individual always looking for what’s next.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
1. Deep insight and analytics and reporting on EMEIA and WW stores and online performance
2. Ownership of weekly programmes performance insights, as well as ongoing compliance and operations oversight
3. Developing new models to evolve the EMEIA forecasting and month end processes, New Store Opening reviews and identification of outliers in country, market and store performance across a number of key performance metrics
4. Development of data, systems and reporting capabilities for EMEIA Retail partnering with geo and WW analytics teams
5. Anticipating changes in the business environment, quickly assessing business impact and recommending course of action
6. Provide strategic consultation and guidance on business proposals, promotional campaigns, sales programs and key financial decisions that support financial growth and operational efficiency
7. Concise and effective presentation of information and analysis to senior Retail and Field leadership
Minimum Qualifications
* 5+ years of relevant experience in a high performance and high growth organisation
* Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate results and represent Finance perspective to non-Finance business partners
* Advanced spreadsheet and modelling skills. Proven ability to distill complex decisions into simple but comprehensive financial models
* Strong knowledge of Excel and Data analytics tools such as Tableau, SQL and Datakit
* Bachelor's degree in Finance or relevant field;
Preferred Qualifications
* Proven track record of completing challenging projects, leading multiple priorities, designing and executing ad hoc analysis and building effective business partnerships
* Thrives in a fast paced, results-driven environment with ambiguity and incomplete information
* Team player with a desire to learn and grow with a hardworking, collaborative team
* Accounting Qualification ACCA/CIMA/ACA preferred
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