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Senior Analyst
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Company Description
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
Located in London, UK, and a member of the Ralph Lauren Workforce Management team, the Senior Analyst is responsible for end to end financial support for store projects (including new stores, renovations, refits, lease renewals, relocations and temporary stores). This position will also own the workforce forecasting process and the associated line of the P&L.
You will be a proactive and innovative financial professional with the ability to multi-task with a high degree of analytical proficiency and integrity.
This position requires commercial experience (ideally in Retail), a strong foundational knowledge of accounting principles and the ability to build strong relationships across the business (both with finance and non finance teams).
This is an exciting and high profile role with the opportunity to support drive significant change, as well as build relationships across the business.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
• Investment appraisals and modelling of pro-forma P&Ls for store projects. This includes scenario modelling, aligning with key stakeholders on inputs and summarizing the financial outputs.
• Analysis of appraisal/modelling outputs (e.g. guidance on financial guardrails, impact on future P&Ls, etc.) to provide insight for senior management decision making.
• Preparation and presentation of decks for projects reviews with EMEA senior management/other decision making forums.
• Cross-functional working to understand and manage each project’s impact on finance processes. • Preparation of staffing and salaries & benefits models for new projects.
• Owner of the salaries & benefits forecast submission for all anticipated projects, identifying R&O for full year forecast.
• Overseeing project tracking: maintaining regular communication with PMs, ensuring live projects are in line with CAR budget. Updating and presenting project tracking reports monthly to the Workforce Management Senior Manager / Director and FP&A colleagues.
• Owner of the month-end close, annual budgeting and quarterly/monthly forecasting process for all new projects.
• This role will also support the Workforce Management Manager / Director with general financial analysis and other ad-hoc projects where required.
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
• Qualified Accountant more than 2 full performance cycles in Retail/Workforce Planning experience.
• Excellent financial modeling and analytical skills with the ability to work with large volume of data.
• Confident liaising with a range of stakeholders.
• Self-motivated; adaptable; able to work in fast-paced, changeable environment; solution-driven
• Mandatory: Advanced competency in Excel and other Microsoft applications.
• Preferred: SAP, Insight, and Hyperion Essbase.
