FP&A Analyst, Swoon
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1 day a week in office
Design-led furniture brand
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Design-led furniture brand
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
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More information about location
1 day a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Swoon's mission is to spark home obsession everywhere and create distinctive designs that owners will want to keep forever.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a highly ambitious, part qualified FP&A Analyst to act as the commercial co-pilot to our Finance Director
- Experience: 2–3 years in an FP&A or Commercial Finance role, ideally within Retail, FMCG, or D2C. You must understand inventory-heavy business models
- Qualification: Part-qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
- Technical Skills: * Expert-level Excel/Google Sheets (Financial modelling is your second language)
- Experience with (or a burning desire to master) SQL and BI tools like Sigma, Tableau, or Looker
- Proactive: You don't wait to be told there is a risk; you find it and bring the solution
- Direct: You can hold your own in a room with the CEO, FD and Department Heads
- Operational: You care about the how things work operationally as much as the impact on the P&L
What the job involves
- At Swoon, FP&A isn't just about reporting history; it’s about architecting our financial future
- This role sits at the heart of the business. You will own the models that drive our most critical decisions - from managing our rolling cash forecast to stress-testing the ROI of a new dropship partnership
- We are an inventory-heavy business where lead times and margins are everything. You’ll be responsible for maintaining the margin guardrails, ensuring we maintain a healthy relationship between top line revenue and contribution
- We’re a small team of 25 and this is the sole FP&A role in the business. You’ll be super motivated at the opportunity to have a real impact on our performance and bottom line from the get go and hungry to develop fast into an FP&A manager and further
- Own the 3-Way Model: Take ownership of the integrated P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow + management of the rolling cash forecast
- Own the budgeting & reforecast: Lead the quarterly reforecast process and the 3-year strategic plan, ensuring all departmental assumptions are stress-tested
- Support with board Reporting: Support the FD in preparing monthly and quarterly board packs, translating complex variances into clear, actionable narratives for stakeholders
- Own SKU-Level Profitability: Partner with the merchandising and operations team to report on the "Margin Stack" from factory to front door. You will flag risks and coordinate margin improvement strategies to ensure we hit our targets
- Implement Trading Guardrails: Provide absolute clarity on trading performance across Swoon and Dropship partners, challenge assumptions and coordinate actions to hit target
- Sign off buying proposals: work with merch to build buying proposals and present to FD for sign off
- Returns & Failure Analysis: Work with Ops to monitor the cost of failure and own improvement roadmap
- Build automated reporting: Build dashboarding skills in BI tool (Sigma) and own finance automation roadmap. Replace manual data pulls to free up your time for high-level analysis
- Own variance analysis: monthly updates on performance, breaking down variance to target based on volume, price and mix
- Own monthly P&L reviews with business stakeholders: present overview of performance for each channel and drive improvements process
- AI roadmap: Support data manager with AI process improvements and roadmap
- Dropship Growth: End to end support from building and signing off P&Ls for new partners to reporting on profitability monthly and driving margin improvements
- Meeting Leadership: Join weekly trading sessions, support with financial decision making, escalate and mitigate risks quickly and help drive teams to capitalise on opportunities
- Business Case Appraisal: Act as a gatekeeper for ROI. Review business cases for new partners or Capex and provide a objective Approve/Reject recommendation to the FD
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Furniture is typically expensive because of the overheads of warehouses and retail shops. There have been a number of retailers who spotted the opportunity to deliver furniture directly from the suppliers to customers.
Swoon's focus in on distinctive design at an accessible price, and competes against Made.com. Swoon has partnered with Debenhams in London's Westfield shopping centres as well as a 2023 partnership with M&S to showcase some of its ranges, whereas Made.com has launched its own display store in London.
Swoon is using real-time sales data in a smart way: they test demand quickly and then scale production on only the most popular pieces.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
56% female employees
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2017
$20.3m
SERIES B
Jul 2014
$6.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $28.9m
Company benefits
- Additional day off on your birthday
- Holiday allowance increases with tenure
- Discount on Swoon furniture, and for your family and friends too
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Share options
- Profit-share bonus
- Wellbeing allowance
- Private medical cover
- A volunteering day off
- Pension scheme
- Free furniture
Company HQ
London, UK
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