About our Brands
Casual Society and Fusilier London are high-end menswear clothing brands offering lines that range from luxury casualwear to Sport-lux streetwear aesthetics. Both brands are stylish and possess strong but subtle aesthetics’ designed to attract the younger luxury conscious Gen Z, Millennials and the stylish Gen X who have large disposable incomes and want to stand out from the crowd.
Our Design & Production team specialises in the use of laminated materials, velvets, micro-leather, specialist inks, rubberised plastics and couture threads that provide the high-end graphic finishes and logo designs that embellish our garments. Our collections feature very expensive and bespoke accessories like zippers, press studs and buttons that provide the authentic Sport Lux finishes expected from our target audience.
Creative Development Hub – Work Space Philosophy
The warehouse/office environment will reflect the brand’s ambitions for success and the personality of the people who operate within the space.
The Directors of the business see the creative team as “stakeholders” and have therefore decided that the core of the creative sales team will be responsible not only for the acquisition of the warehouse space but will also be responsible for the studio fit-out. The studio/hub will become a fast-paced business arena imbuing a sense of ownership and pride of place for the team.
The studio space will host the Digital Marketing Sales Suite, Ecommerce and Fashion Photography Studio, and High-spec Fashion Showroom. The Showroom, Bar and Working Canteen area will be used for hosting B2B & B2C coffee meetings and events that will give exposure to the creative team and designers who will flow around the fast-paced creative hub interfacing with visiting clients.
The Financial Manager/Director role will suit someone who is not only financially astute with an impeccable track record but also someone who wants to be part of an international boutique fashion business, leading the project to be a “Digital First Leader” in the online sport-lux and eventually the entertainment market.
The individual required must come from a retail background and have a passion for the luxury creative industries.
Reporting directly to the Managing Directors, this position will be responsible for managing the day-to-day financial operations which include digital marketing sales and fulfilment business in the UK which also comprises our own manufacturing facility in Izmir Turkey established in 2014.
Longer-term there is a view for this person to step into a Finance Director position, where the role will become strategically and commercially focused on the growth of the business in Turkey and the UK late in 2022.
The Finance Director/Manager will need to be knowledgeable about retail or another similar highly transactional business sector with the same/similar remit.
The successful candidate will be eager to work in a start-up environment and have experience of most of the following and/or willing to grow into such a role with the help of our appointed chartered accountancy firm.
The scope of service will mostly include:
- Full responsibility for the management of the finance function on a day-to-day basis.
- Responsible for driving the forecasting and budgeting and managing the production of the monthly management accounts.
- Bank reconciliations
- Invoicing and reconciling payments
- Preparing and filing the quarterly VAT returns
- Supporting the business owners with mid-term financial planning and longer-term growth strategy, including building out a finance team.
- Monitor the AP/AR functions
- Work closely with other department managers to review invoices
- Maintain fixed assets register
- Look after the treasury function
- Responsible for working on ad-hoc project work.
- Heading up the implementation of the UK growth strategy
- Heading up the implementation of the Turkish manufacturing growth strategy
- Taking ownership of the budgeting and forecasting and working capital strategies
- Leading the transformation of systems and processes
- Business partnering with non-finance, including Sales & Marketing
- Managing & leading a team of junior finance professionals Stakeholder management, particularly where investors may be involved
- Financial oversight of the modelling provided to investors, and investor reporting.
- Lead on monthly reporting, providing strategic guidance and direction
- Drive revenues, gross margins, and profitability
- Implementing and reporting on company KPI’s and benchmarking
- Developing and maintaining first-class systems, processes, and controls
- Working with external accountants: Prepare and present monthly management accounts
- Responsible for merchandise planning model to inform stock buys
- Ensure that the regulatory requirements are met
You are required to be a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with a commercial background in FMCG retail.
You will have budgeting, forecasting, analysis and business partnering experience and ideally, you will have had exposure to revenue growth management. You will have excellent communication skills and the gravitas to deal with senior, often non-financial, stakeholders.
NB: We endeavour to respond to all candidates, however, due to the number of applications we receive, this is not always possible. I’m afraid if you haven’t heard from us within 21 days of applying for the position, you have not been successful at this time.
