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Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. In 2025, Lyst joined Zozo, operators of Zozotown, the leading fashion e-commerce platform in Japan. This partnership marks a bold new era for Lyst, as we accelerate our vision and work together to transform the future of fashion shopping through AI and technology.
At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper.
About the Role
We are looking to hire a qualified individual into the Core Finance team to lead on group reporting and financial compliance. This is a great opportunity for the right individual to make a mark in a small but high performing team in a fast paced environment. As a team, we focus on ensuring our reporting is robust, whilst constantly looking to iterate and improve our processes, to maintain our position as an industry leading department. You will have a real impact on how the team transitions and develops in the next phase of Lyst's journey, following its acquisition by ZOZO Group.
Responsibilities:
- Own the delivery of accurate and timely monthly reporting to our external listed owners
- Be the key point of liaison with the parent accounting team, managing questions and ensuring the timely submission of deliverables and responses outside of the month end period.
- Review month end deliverables to ensure that we hit our close and reporting deadlines
- Lead the delivery of quarterly controls, ensuring these are prepared and reviewed in line with best in class financial control.
- Contribute to the annual financial audit and support a successful transition to new auditors following Lyst's acquisition by ZOZO group.
- Take the lead on the preparation of the statutory Financial Statements.
- Run all tax compliance exercises for both Lyst Ltd and Lyst Inc, including corporation tax returns, taxable benefit submissions and indirect tax submissions
- Work with external advisors to produce an annual R&D claim
- Own the insurance process, including annual renewals by liaising closely with external brokers and internal stakeholders, and ensure appropriate risk management is in place
- Provide cover for key team members during periods of absence to ensure continuity of operations.
- Review monthly payroll, liaising with our People Team and third-party payroll providers as required
- Contribute to projects across the Finance team, including autonomously driving change to improve processes, identify efficiencies and deliver insight
Requirements
To be successful in this role you will need to have a rounded skill set as well as a fantastic work ethic. We're a high-performance, open and honest team, always pushing to learn and develop.
We believe the right person for this role will:
- Enjoy reporting and compliance, always striving to deliver accurate and engaging content
- Have a strong sense of ownership and pride in their work, and can be trusted to deliver results autonomously
- Be organised and adept at time management and prioritisation
- Embrace data and change.
We are looking for someone who is:
- Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA with at least 2 years of accounting and finance experience post qualification
- Technically strong. A working knowledge of IFRS / FRS 101 and tax rules and legislation is desirable but not essential.
- A Google Sheets and / or Microsoft Excel expert.... and willing to learn more
- Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
Benefits
- Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home
- Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst's holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March
- Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss
- Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service
- Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start
- Training Allowance: We're big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources
- Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People's Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution
- Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You'll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses
- Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them
- Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work
- Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more
We want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
