Job Description

The Fold is an award-winning womenswear brand with a mission to empower women to realise their ambitions. The brand creates beautiful, high quality collections for women to feel their confident best. The Fold has a wide reaching international audience and has dressed some of the world's most influential female leaders and innovators.


Join The Fold Team





We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example -never compromising on our quality.


We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion across our business and within our teams. Creating equal opportunities for employees and applicants.

Head of Finance

About the role:

Leads the financial strategy and operations of the business, ensuring continuous improvement of financial systems and processes and supports commercial decision-making to drive sustainable growth and operational efficiency. Overseeing budgeting, forecasting, cashflow, audit, and statutory compliance, while acting as a trusted business partner across all departments.

Your responsibilities:

Financial Control & Reporting

Responsible for production of timely and accurate monthly management accounts. Managing, improving and implementing necessary financial controls to ensure integrity of results and reporting. Work with the team to improve financial processes not just within finance but across the Company and implement necessary procedures and policies. Sign off weekly payment runs. Be responsible for development, improvement and communication of weekly and monthly financial KPIs e.g. management accounts comms to the board, presenting results in All Hands, working with other stakeholders to product commentary. Development of monthly analysis and reports to aid decision making, e.g. market P&Ls, unit economics. Lead the annual Audit; liaising with Auditors and managing priorities for internal team. Produce annual statutory accounts and corporation tax return within deadline.

Planning and Commercial

Own the Budget and Forecast processes for the business including timelines, communications with budget holders, consolidation of forecasts, commentary and presentation. Business partnering with all teams to ensure integrity of information supplied for budgets/forecasts. Being proactive and reactive should new information become available raising risks and opportunities when necessary and developing an ongoing R&O schedule.

Treasury

Cashflow forecasting - own the rolling weekly cashflow including updates as well as communicating opportunities and risks, and taking the lead on mitigating risks. FX exposure management - run a currency forecast and place necessary hedges in line with the policy set by the board. Manage daily relationships with banks and/or funding third parties.

Systems

Responsible for systems in relation to our ERP, banking and payment providers (including being a system administrator). Manage the relationship with ACS along with the P&I manager helping prioritise. Own relationships with external system related suppliers. Working in all areas to continually improve existing systems or evaluate future developments (eg Global-e, website re-platform, Netsuite data warehouse, BI reporting tools).

Other areas of responsibility

Be the point of contact in Finance for the business by building strong relationship with key stakeholders and becoming a trustworthy business partner and establish yourself as a strategic member of the SLT. Insurance renewals. Manage and develop direct reports. Monthly Payroll is completed, working with HR and external Payroll support. Ensure all Tax obligations worldwide are adhered to (eg timely and accurate filing of HMRC returns for VAT, duties and PAYE). Changes in commercial and statutory obligations (eg post-Brexit and pandemic). Suggest best working practices from previous experience. Other ad hoc duties/responsibilities.

Benefits and perks of working with The Fold:

25 days holidays (including bank holidays) Buy additional holidays Employee Assistance Programme Pension schemewith pension salary sacrifice options Financial wellbeing support Salary sacrifice options for groceries & childcare Enhanced maternity pay Yearly gift voucher of 1,250 A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price Bike to work scheme, save on the cost of bikes and equipment Eye Care. Summer Friday hours Fully stocked snack cupboards, fruits and coffee & tea Regular Social Events - including summer and Christmas parties Volunteering

Our Culture:

We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example - never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principle across the business:

Be Humbitious:

Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don't be a diva.

Wrap it up with a bow on it:

Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.

Be Empowered:

Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results,

Fold Gold Standard:

Quality and professionalism, don't just 'let it go', pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.

Embrace, pace, progress and adventure:

Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Diversity and Inclusion:

We promote a diverse and inclusive workplace which harnesses the benefits of the diversity of our team and strives to represent the communities in which we live and work. Our vision is to establish an environment that attracts individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and talents, empowering them to contribute their best and authentic selves. We welcome and encourage applications from those who share our commitment to fostering this inclusive and authentic work culture.




To apply for this role, please send your CV to

careers@thefoldlondon.com

. Due to the number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those that are successful to the next stage.