Finance Analyst - Austria and Europe

Description

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Who we are

You might know us as the inventors of the bath bomb, but there’s more to this great‑smelling, partly employee‑owned, family‑run company than pioneering cosmetics. We believe our business should put more back into the world than it takes and demonstrate that capitalism can be a force for good.

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Finance Analyst – Austria and Europe

• Reports to: Finance Business Partner and Financial Controller
• Entity: Lush Austria GmbH
• Hours: 30 hours per week
• Salary: €1,975 – €2,678 depending on experience (based on 30 hours)
• Location: Hybrid with 2 days per week in our Vienna office.

As a finance analyst to the European business, you will be responsible for providing insightful, timely and accurate business information to our shop managers and operational leaders. The role is anchored in and focused on Austria, providing support to the retail and finance teams, but also has a wider European remit supporting other markets as and when required.

Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive an overwhelming response or our business requirements change.

Key Responsibilities

Lush Austria

• Ownership of all sales reporting, daily, weekly and monthly. Prepare weekly and monthly reporting with supporting commentary covering sales performance against current trends, business drivers and product sales insight.
• Responsible for producing monthly/annual reporting and maintenance of dashboards: Sales, business drivers, staff costs, profit, and leagues.
• Maintenance of the till system and scales, including product set‑up and maintenance.
• Stock reporting and supporting the stock management processes, such as inventory counts.
• Supporting the retail leadership team with price reviews.
• Supporting the shop budgeting and re‑forecasting process, covering sales and staff costs.
• Project support relating to sales initiatives or cost savings.
• Ad‑hoc support to the finance manager in all aspects.

Europe

• Ad‑hoc support to our European markets on any of the above tasks, excluding till maintenance.
• Supporting the Retail Finance Business Partner in all aspects – ad‑hoc pieces of work or support in more regular reporting that goes out to the wider team of Retail operational managers.
• Champion FP&A best practices and support the delivery of operational efficiencies across all markets.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Strong German and English skills are essential.
• A recognised finance qualification is desirable, but we will consider candidates with relevant experience who do not hold qualifications.
• 3+ years of experience in an analytical role.
• Strong Excel spreadsheet skills, including complex formulas. Ideally, also experience with Google Sheets.
• Analytically minded.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Culturally, someone who is enthusiastic about Lush and our ethics.
• Experience of using commercial BI systems is preferred but not essential.

Benefits

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About Lush

Since establishing in 1995 in Poole, Dorset, Lush has been driven by innovation and its ethics.
Creators of pioneering beauty products such as the fizzing bath bomb, shower jellies and solid shampoo bars, we place emphasis on fresh ingredients like organic fruits and vegetables, fight against animal testing and combat over‑packaging by developing products that can be sold ‘naked’ to the customer without any packaging.

We currently operate in 52 countries with 928 global shops. Through our separate business divisions we invent, manufacture and sell our handmade products direct to our customers through our own shops and online. The fact that we make all our products by hand is something we are really rather proud of!

Lush is 10% Employee Owned since 2017 and our people are the heart and soul of our business.