WE ARE DENIM HEADS.

We love denim. Live and breathe it. It’s in our DNA. At G-STAR, we see no limit to what denim can do. We believe it can be force of progress and innovation for both people and planet. How? By hiring the most creative, curious and caring minds. People who think beyond fashion. Bringing big ideas to big challenges. Driven by possibility. Those who work hard, make mistakes, but always continue to grow.

Denim is in our DNA, our people are our stitching.

Join the denim heads making raw denim!

• HERE'S WHAT WE'LL DO TOGETHER:
• Is your passion for finance, data, and analytics as high as ours? Are you excited about being involved in various financial planning and analysis initiatives and projects, playing a pivotal role in our business? Do you work well with a broad range of stakeholders and can you prioritize when needed?
• We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about covering a broad range of FP&A topics from cost control, business control to financial control and who feels comfortable analyzing performance and proposing measures to optimize our financial outcomes.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Financial Planning and Analysis:

• Develop and improve advanced management reporting, linking financial and non-financial KPIs whilst understanding the relationship between all KPIs. Ensure insights from these reports are shared and put into practice.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of profitability across various business units and propose measures to improve top and bottom-line growth leveraging financial and non-financial data.
• Support financial initiatives by preparing business cases and analysis. Drive the prioritization of positive business cases while clearly linking future costs to future benefits.
• Identify and provide relevant data and financial insights to the management team. Develop a deep understanding of different types of costs and expenses, comparing these to budget enabling measures to be proposed to balance costs and benefits.

Planning and Control Process:

• Helping and preparing the annual budget cycle.
• Review on a monthly basis the P&L from a business unit and regional perspective.
• Collect input, analyze, and draft the monthly 12-month rolling forecast.
• Compose monthly management reports (both internal and external reporting).

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

• Minimum of 2 years relevant work experience.
• Some experience in cost control, financial reporting, and forecasting in a Retail environment.
• Experience with SAP ERP and a good understanding of financial postings.
• Experience with SAP BPC, Fluence or comparable systems.
• Passion for data and analytics and motivated to understand which and how non-financial factors impact the top and bottom line.
• Proactive in providing relevant information to business partners.
• Detail-oriented but also able to see the bigger picture.
• Excellent analytical skills and comfortable managing large quantities of data.
• Strong urge to understand the business drivers behind the numbers.
• Excellent in the use of MS Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Innovative thinker, leading the development of standardized best practice reporting.
• Self-aware, humble, strong communicator with great interpersonal skills in a multicultural environment.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, or similar.

HERE'S WHAT WE BRING TO THE TABLE:

We recently moved into our state-of-the-art office in the vibrant city of Valencia. This could be your chance to play a pivotal role in shaping the future development of G-STAR in Spain!

Beyond a competitive salary, working at G-STAR brings many other perks and exciting opportunities:

• A clothing budget to showcase your personal style while representing G-STAR,
• A fully paid private medical insurance,
• Flexibility to work from home up to 2 days per week, promoting a healthy work-life balance,
• Free access to leading learning and development platforms like Udemy and Goodhabitz.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT:

• We will thoroughly review your CV.
• We have a large expat community at G-STAR, so please apply in English.
• When we hopefully find what we are looking for, we will contact you for a chat and if it’s a good fit, we’ll plan our first interview.
• Having an agile mindset is very important at G-STAR, therefore we ask you to participate in a fun gamification assessment! We will then discuss the outcome in a follow-up interview.
• When we’re ready to commit to each other, we’ll finalize the terms we’ve discussed and we’ll explain to you how to order your first pair of jeans from the G-STAR employee store. Good luck!