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Job Description
The Finance Business Partner role, reporting to the Commercial Finance Lead, presents an exciting opportunity to support Depop's newly formed Fulfilment function, which encompasses shipping, payments, and fraud prevention.
In this role, you will provide strategic guidance and direction, as well as ensuring business accountability through thorough and timely performance reviews. Your responsibilities will include contributing to key FP&A deliverables across reporting, KPI analysis, process improvement, budgeting/forecasting, and commercial analysis.
This is a true business partnering position where you will assist the business in making critical decisions while also ensuring accountability for financial variances. We are seeking a hands-on individual who can collaborate effectively within a team yet also possesses the autonomy and confidence to engage directly with the business. This role will be both challenging and rewarding as you manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment to support our ambitious growth strategy.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Fulfillment team to maintain accurate monthly forecasts that reflect current trends, critically assessing underlying assumptions, and clearly communicating any potential margin risks or opportunities.
- Provide commercial support for new initiatives supporting in modelling the financial and user impact, understanding key sensitivities and incorporating into planning cycles.
- Working with the Fraud team, you'll analyze performance, identify trends, and support investment cases to deliver improvements in line with our strategy.
- You will contribute towards the medium and long term planning cycles, working closely with the business to understand key project initiatives and impact on our financial performance.
- Support the FP&A team by embedding wider budget discipline and process efficiency across the business as well as sharing regular and comprehensive updates to your finance colleagues
- Deep dive into key investment areas to identify contribution and performance compared to plan and other benchmarks.
- Working alongside the Commercial Finance Lead and the wider business to perform investment appraisals to support long and short term investment decisions and support with post-investment appraisals to track performance results versus original business case.
- Support the business in identifying cost or margin improvement opportunities.
Requirements:
- CIMA or ACCA accounting qualification (fully or part qualified)
- You will be an ambitious, dedicated individual that is excited about the opportunity to develop in a fast-paced global business that is constantly changing
- Experience in similar business partnering roles preferable.
- Strong financial modelling skills and advanced use of Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets - able to manipulate large datasets and use complex formulas.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to present financial concepts to non-financial managers.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Great awareness of deadlines and competing priorities.
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team. Natural curiosity to seek out improvements and proactively taking initiative.
Additional information
Health + Mental Wellbeing PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting Work/Life Balance: 25 days annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days 1 company-wide day off per quarter Impact hours: Up to 2 days additional paid leave per year for volunteering Fully paid 4 week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop, to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love. Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office Based, and Remote options *role dependant All offices are dog-friendly Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries Family Life: 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave Learn + Grow: Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees Your Future: Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary) Pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings Depop Extras: Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK. Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!
