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Planning Director
Farfetch
Porto, , Portugal
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Description
Responsibilities
• Project manage complex cross-team initiatives within Technology team. Work closely with the technology team, helping create tools to perform financial and project processes, as well as analyzing projects' costs, risks, planning, and accuracy.
• Implement continuous improvements to the technology organization
• Create and support the budget for technology team
• Improve existing planning and budgeting process.
• Provide planning leadership across budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning.
• Prepare and track project budgets, approve POs, change orders, payments, etc.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and accuracy and lead projects to deliver improvements in productivity and operating costs.
• Review monthly reports, trends and indicators and provide suggestions for improvement. Ensure and maintain forecast data accuracy and integrity at all times.
• Work closely with the finance team to ensure tight finance controls and procedures.
• Support forecast and strategic plan for headcount and operating expenses
• Develop budget review presentations, excel models and ad-hoc analyses for the business.
• Liaise between 3rd-party providers, vendor managers, Farfetch business owners to advice on financial impact of different resource deployment options. Negotiates contracts for pricing and delivery options and terms.
Skills & Experience
• Experience with Technology processes (Agile methodologies, tech project planning, technical dependencies)
• Experience in Planning & Analysis, modelling, budgeting, cost management and resource planning.
• Experience with P&L analysis
• Excellent English written/verbal communication skills combined with strong relationship management skills.
• Organizational skills
• Ability to project manage large, complex, strategic and operational initiatives with multiple cross-country stakeholders.