URBN Finance Manager

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About Us

URBN UK Limited is part of the URBN Group, a global retailer, with its European Head Office located in London. Its retail offering in Europe takes the form of three brands.

With stores in more than 10 European countries and a strong e-commerce presence, we're driven by the same core values as our customers, and we approach our work with a sense of community and purpose that sets our brands apart. We love what we do.

Role Summary

The main objective of this role is to take responsibility for driving root-to-branch control of our leasehold property portfolio within the EU business.

What You'll Be Doing

• Drive robust financial control across all aspects of property and occupational costs. P&L, Balance Sheet & Cash.
• Responsible for all aspects of Property costs including budgeting, forecasting, payment, and reporting.
• Oversee the month-end process for the shared services departments, including monthly P&L reporting, variance analysis and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Build relationships and partner closely with senior stakeholders both in the EU and North America.
• Assistance with the lease management plan, including coordination of contract management, renewals, break clauses and indexation management.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardisation, and simplification of processes across the function, leveraging Qlik.
• Coordination with third parties and local authorities to ensure effective planning and execution to meet all statutory deadlines, and commitments.
• Drive value creation agenda for occupational cost, including ownership of CAM and rates challenge programme.
• Own annual insurance and utility contract renewal process with our brokers
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the financial statements accurately reflect the ongoing maintenance and repairs programme.
• Manage and develop a team of direct reports.

What You'll Need

• Significant leasehold multi-site experience including working with landlords.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with a proven track record of developing team members to be their best and achieve their potential.
• Ability to interpret and communicate lease and financial information with transparency provide insights to deliver business improvement and optimize and protect value.
• Preferable is exposure to Oracle EBS, MicroStrategy, Hyperion, Qlik and advanced user of Microsoft Excel
• Challenge the status quo.
• Strong influencing abilities to build consensus and engagement with key partners at all levels and across the organization.
• Ability to lead change and prioritize team workload in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical skills, commercial acuity and understanding of business drivers, with related business experiences are preferred.

The Perks

• Great team culture within a supportive and inclusive brand
• Dog-friendly office
• Complimentary onsite gym and wellness studio plus wellbeing initiatives
• Onsite café
• Local food/drink discounts
• Great development programmes
• Huge staff discount across the brands
• Competitive holiday allowance
• Pension scheme, life insurance, medical care, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans

And much more...

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Equal Opportunity Statement

URBN is an Equal Opportunities Employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, marital status, religion, race, or disability. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.