Finance Manager - Maternity Cover (6-8 months)

About Heroes

Heroes buys, operates, and scales baby and juvenile brands.

We are ambitious multi-brand developers combining operational excellence with customer-centricity to support parents and children through every milestone of their journey. Built by a team with a background in investment banking, venture capital, and D2C eCommerce, we have the right experience to nurture and grow brands and develop products that simplify, support, and enrich everyday family experiences.

At Heroes, we leave our egos behind, get our hands dirty, and push through obstacles to get things over the finish line. If this sounds like you, you should join us.

About the role

We are looking for a Finance Lead to join our team for an interim role. The Finance Lead will be responsible for maintaining accurate accounting records, analysing trends, and presenting timely Business Segment reports to the Senior Leadership Team. This role involves ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, controlling segmental P&Ls and their cost centres, and managing cash needs as well as working capital. The Finance Lead will also assist in the preparation of financial statements, and support the wider Heroes Finance team with the Group month-end process and any re-structuring projects that may arise!

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly reporting process for two of our seven Business Segments. This includes reviewing the team’s month-end tasks and analysing YoY and actuals to budget variances, putting together commentary and allocating Group costs into the different brands and/or channels.
• Present monthly figures to the respective General Managers and help them understand trends. The finance lead will assist General Managers in driving change in their P&Ls towards higher profitability.
• Prepare and analyse financial statements, including balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, and cash flow statements.
• Lead discrete areas of the month end closing process.
• Assist in the creation of deliverables for the annual external Group Audit and Group Financial Statements.
• Carry out the monthly reconciliation between Heroes’ ERP(Netsuite) and our BI tool (Looker).
• Manage cash and working capital needs of the Business Segments in line with the Group Cash Management policy. This task includes reviewing payment runs and approving payments on a weekly basis.
• Lead, together with the General Managers, the business segment budgeting exercise for their corresponding Segments.
• Assist in the integration and due diligence processes for potential acquisitions. This involves working closely with various departments (M&A, Legal, Supply Chain, IT..) to assess integration needs and ensure smooth transition.
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy in financial reporting.
• Manage a team of two direct reports, a Management accountant and a finance analyst, and review their work.
  

About you

• Accounting related undergraduate degree and / or training in an international accounting firm / big-four (ideally c. 5-7 years’ experience in total).
• Good knowledge of IFRS.
• Proactive and organised with good attention to detail.
• Able to accurately analyse financial data to identify trends, variances, and areas of improvement.
• Excellent verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately with colleagues at all levels and all professional backgrounds.
• Willing to adapt, learn and pick up new techniques and technologies.
• Able to prioritise and multitask in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Great team player who is open to change, new initiatives and one-off projects.
• Experience with NetSuite and / or in a fast moving e-commerce or retail business would be beneficial.
• Very high level of written and spoken English. Spanish is a plus.

Our benefits

• Remote working (RSA, Spain & UK)
• 25 days holiday / year pro-rated (RSA, Spain & UK)
• Social events (RSA, Spain & UK)
• Friday afternoons off in August (RSA, Spain & UK)
• Brand discounts (Spain, UK)
• Ticket restaurants and Transport (salary sacrifice, Spain)
• Health Insurance (Spain, UK)
• Pension plan (UK)
• Cycle to work scheme (UK)

Please submit a CV in English, since it is the language you will be using on a daily basis.

Location: Madrid (Spain) / Barcelona (Spain) / Cape Town (South Africa)