WORK AT CELTIC & CO.

Join our award-winning, ambitious & hard-working team in one of our exciting roles and help us drive our success to the next level. We are a rapidly growing business but still small enough that you feel like a member of the Celtic & Co. family – we’d like you to become our newest member! The more diversity we have in our team, the more unique perspectives and bright ideas we share. At Celtic & Co we are driven by alternative thinking, which to us means all ideas, personal beliefs, points of view, empower us to be a better more inclusive place to work. 

We support our employees by providing dedicated learning and development opportunities that will help you to thrive and succeed. At Celtic & Co. you’ll have a healthy work-life balance, a supportive and open-minded team environment and the opportunity to enter a cycle-to-work-scheme. We also offer an exclusive employee discount. All applications must include a covering letter and details of your current notice period.

All roles are based in Cornwall.

Group Financial Controller

Refined Brands are digital pioneers of the ethical fashion movement, with a clear focus on sustainability, British heritage, and high-quality manufacturing.

Refined Brands have acquired four brands since inception; the first investment was Celtic & Co. in February 2021, with Turtle Doves joining the group in September 2022, then Kettlewell Colours and Frugi in November 2022.

The leadership team have exceptional retail pedigree and are utilizing their digital expertise to drive growth both in the UK and International markets.

Against this backdrop of growth, there is a need to further develop the financial management and control of the group, as well as to mentor and develop the internal teams, leading to the creation of a Group Financial Controller role.

Why would you want this role?

• Opportunity to join the Senior Management team in a high calibre, high-growth, investor backed retail group.
• Focus on ethical sustainability; appetite for BCorp Status
• Exposure to future acquisitions
• You’ll be supporting the leadership team in building a best-in-class finance function.
• Package to include growth equity shares.

The Role

As the Group Financial Controller, you will play a critical role in overseeing the financial management of our group of brands. You will be responsible for the accurate and timely reporting of financial information, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, providing strategic financial guidance to senior management, and managing the financial control, budgeting, and forecasting processes. This position requires strong leadership skills, a deep understanding of financial principles, and the ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders at Director/Heads of level.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting and Analysis:

• Prepare and present financial reports for the group, including consolidated financial statements, and variance analysis.
• Analyse financial data, identify trends, and provide insights to support strategic decision-making.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and financial metrics to assess the group's financial health
• and identify areas for improvement.

Financial Control and Compliance:

• Oversee month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, statutory requirements, and relevant regulations.
• Establish and maintain internal controls to safeguard the group's assets and mitigate financial risks.
• Conduct periodic financial audits and coordinate with external auditors.

Cash Flow Management:

• Monitor and manage the group's cash flow position, ensuring sufficient liquidity for daily operations and long-term investments.
• Implement effective cash management strategies, including optimising working capital, managing debt, and evaluating investment opportunities.
• Maintain relationships with banks and financial institutions to secure funding as required.

Financial Strategy and Business Partnership:

• Provide strategic financial advice to senior management, contributing to the development and execution of the group's business strategies.
• Act as a trusted advisor, offering financial insights and recommendations to improve operational efficiency and profitability.

Team Leadership and Development:

• Lead and mentor a team of financial professionals, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Set clear objectives, provide regular feedback, and promote professional development opportunities while ensuring the team adheres to accounting principles, policies, and best practices.

Financial Procedures and Taxation

• Ensure accounting policies comply with the relevant accounting standards and legislative requirements, through the development and maintenance of thorough financial procedures for the group.
• Ensure all finance records are kept accurately and securely and in line with legislative requirements and to combat fraud. Recommend appropriate financial policies and monitor and report on adherence.
• Ensure that the Company’s financial systems are robust, compliant and support current and future
• growth. Recommend improvements to financial systems and controls as required.
• Ensure tax compliance across our UK and International markets, managing issues as required.
• Management of general, credit and other insurance renewals.
• Management of Group multi-currency bank accounts and FX hedging (in conjunction with Board) and
• Finance Director.
• Ensure efficient management of supplier payments and credit control/payment reconciliation.

About you:

• A technically strong, insightful, and influential finance professional with the ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and mentoring skills, with high integrity and openness, combined with a commitment to good governance.
• Demonstrate an ability to manage and motivate teams at all levels.
• Energetic, highly motivated, with an enquiring mind and passion for excellence in pursuit of growth
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified or equivalent
• Experience as a Financial Controller or a similar senior finance role in the retail industry.

The more diversity we have in our team, the more unique perspectives and bright ideas we share. At Refined Brands we are driven by alternative thinking, which to us means all ideas, personal beliefs, points of view, empower us to be a better more inclusive place to work.

Applications via Indeed: Group Financial Controller

Group Commercial Finance Manager 

About the role:

Reporting to the Group Head of Finance, as the Commercial Finance Manager you will be partnering closely with the Trading teams across Merchandising, Ecommerce, Marketing, and Product, to provide commercial decisions to support the Senior Leadership team. You will be delivering at a group and brand level as to deliver regular trading/KPI reporting and insight/analysis, whilst identifying profit improvement opportunities.

About the Company:

Refined Brands are digital pioneers of the ethical fashion movement, with a clear focus on sustainability, British heritage, and high-quality manufacturing.

Refined Brands have acquired four brands since inception; the first investment was Celtic & Co. in February 2021, with Turtle Doves joining the group in September 2022, then Kettlewell Colours and Frugi in November 2022.

The leadership team have exceptional retail pedigree and are utilizing their digital expertise to drive growth both in the UK and International markets.

Against this backdrop of growth, there is a need to further develop the financial management and control of the group, as well as to mentor and develop the internal teams.

What we can offer:

• Great work life balance
• Working in a beautiful part of the UK
• A supportive open-minded team environment
• Exclusive 50% discount
• Family feel business
• Free parking
• Cycle to work
• Employee Assistance Programs

Key Elements of Role:

• Monitoring financial targets and budgets in accordance with the group’s strategy.
• Support the Group Managing Director, subsidiary Managing Directors & Group Head of Finance working on one-off and ad-hoc financial reporting requirements.
• Understand key trading drivers and provide decision-making support to ensure delivery of KPI trading targets.
• Develop, collate, and maintain a robust and timely daily, weekly trading, monthly report focusing on sales, trading margin and stock, providing insight on the key areas of movement.
• Ensure all reporting remain relevant and appropriate to the evolving needs of the business.
• Lead periodic performance reviews in partnership with Managing Directors/Heads of Marketing, Heads of Digital and Senior Merchandisers to understand trading performance, highlight risks and opportunities, ensure ownership and accuracy of forecasts, and provide challenge where necessary.
• Production of the monthly management information pack with clear insight and analysis, in partnership with Group Head of Finance and Financial Controller.
• Alongside Senior Merchandisers, be an active participant in the open to buy and intake margin target process.
• Continually monitoring and reviewing stock management including intake, dispatch & terminal position; highlighting any areas of concern to the Managing Directors and Group Head of Finance.
• Drive rigor and consistency into regular reforecast processes across the group with goal that there are no surprises throughout the year.
• Preparation of integrated budgets and forecasts including indirect cash flow planning.
• Take full ownership for budgeting, forecast and 5-year planning cycles to ensure a joined-up approach of targets across all functions with full “buy in”, including critically reviewing the numbers and ensuring a sensible level of challenge is set.
• Own and regularly update the rolling integrated 3 year/ 5 year group model. Translate high level modelling into operational P&L; KPIs and performance targets for current and future brands.
• Understand the product life cycle and British factory teams and work with product pillar (product, buying and merchandising) teams to improve working capital.
• Support the evaluation of new selling channels and customer team initiatives in modelling new business opportunities.
• Support with any ad hoc analysis and projects including assessment of brand acquisitions and performing specific due diligence tasks.
• Assess, maintain and promote social and environmental performance throughout the Team in line with the company’s Corporate, Social, Responsibility (CSR) Policy, Values and Mission.
• Any other duties as directed by Management.

The candidate:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience within a similar role
• Demonstrate solid financial modelling skills; evolving in line with business and external requirements.
• Introduce better ways of delivering deep, accurate quantitative data to stakeholders.
• Analytical / strategical thinking, result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork
• You'll bring a balanced view to decision making with credible contribution beyond financial analysis / implications.
• You’ll have a practical, hands-on mentality with energy and commercial instinct.
• Ability to apply sound judgement to accounting situations and questions.

The more diversity we have in our team, the more unique perspectives and bright ideas we share. At Refined Brands we are driven by alternative thinking, which to us means all ideas, personal beliefs, points of view, empower us to be a better more inclusive place to work.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £40K-£45K

Applications via Indeed: Group Commercial Finance Manager 

Warehouse:

Online Order Picker - Warehouse Assistant 

About us:

Celtic & Co. has been creating timeless, sustainable clothing and footwear for over 30 years. We care greatly about our environment and community and this ethos flows through everything we do. We only ever use natural, sustainable materials, and keep our production miles to a minimum, sourcing mainly from Great Britain and manufacturing our sheepskin footwear and accessories by hand in our Cornish factory.

All this contributes towards a better fashion future - we strive to do better every day and take industry standards as a threshold to go beyond.

We are a proud, British manufacturer with two sites located close together in Cornwall. Our factory is based in Newquay and our head office and warehouse is in Indian Queens.

Join our award-winning, ambitious & hard-working team in one of our exciting roles and help us drive our success to the next level. We are a rapidly growing business but still small enough that you feel like a member of the Celtic & Co. family – we’d like you to become our newest member!

What we can offer:

• £11.15 per hour - Great rate of pay above the ‘Real Living Wage’.
• Full Time – 5 shifts per week Monday-Saturday.
• Sustainable and Ethical fashion brands, Celtic & Co. and Frugi
• 50% staff discount after 1 month’s service across all group brands
• A supportive open-minded team environment
• Free parking
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Temporary Contract until March 2024, Temp to Perm available.

Please note, as this is our busiest time:

• You must be available to work all dates between 1st October and 31^st January.
• Available to work hours between 8am and 5pm (usual shift is 9am-5pm)
• Available to work on Saturday between November and Christmas
• Accrued holiday paid out at contract end.

Key responsibilities include:

• You will use a mobile handheld device to accurately pick and sort customer orders.
• You will achieve the daily performance target for the task and work to deadlines.
• You will work on other tasks when required, such as packing, cleaning the work area.
• The role will include using step ladders and lifting boxes of stock (up to 15kg)

The Candidate:

• Will have experience performing in a fast-paced environment.
• Will be friendly and enjoy working as part of a team.
• Will be computer literate, efficient and accurate with data entry.
• Will be capable of working individually, unsupervised whilst maintaining work rate.
• Will be reliable, self-motivated and punctual.
• Will manage their time well and be able to work efficiently whilst maintaining accuracy.
• Should be open to working on a multitude of warehouse tasks when required.
• Will have a base level of fitness as the role is active.
• Full training will be provided to the successful applicant.

The more diversity we have in our team, the more unique perspectives and bright ideas we share. At Celtic & Co. we are driven by alternative thinking, which to us means all ideas, personal beliefs, points of view, empower us to be a better more inclusive place to work.

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Saturday

Experience:

• Accurate Data Entry: 1 year (preferred)
• Fast pace: 1 year (preferred)

Applications via Indeed: https://uk.indeed.com/jobs?q=online+picking&l=St+Columb%2C+Cornwall&from=searchOnHP&vjk=4d45c0fe8260c04f

Senior Merchandiser

Reports to: Trading Director

Direct reports: Merchandiser, Assistant Merchandiser, Junior Merchandiser

Purpose: You will lead and drive merchandising for the Consumer and Trade channels, including building product assortments that meet the financial targets of the business. You will deliver across a diverse retail framework a consistent approach for the individual brands which maximises commercial opportunity. You will identify risks to sales, margin and inventory levels and opportunities for revenue and margin growth. You will propose and execute mitigation/incremental activity to remain on target across all KPIs.

Key Responsibilities

Budget Planning/Marketing

• Work with Finance Director and Trading Director, to define, monitor and deliver the Consumer and Trade revenue and NAM budgets for each year.
• Responsible for driving regular reviews with Head of Finance, highlighting risks and opportunities, forecasted sales, stock levels & OTB. Continued development of Merchandising tools and documents to support this process.
• Responsible for stock intake budget to achieve company sales plans.
• Translate annual budgets into seasonal budgets, feeding into range planning, and providing a benchmark for seasonal sales reporting.
• Execute forward financial KPI planning including OTB.
• Develop an annual strategic merchandising plan including option plan and mix, margins and price architecture.
• Work with the Directors on future product assortment across the key channels. Identify needs of global business units to create and execute balanced and profitable product assortments and ensure demand is met.
• Work with direct team to analyse and report on business performance and trends (weekly, monthly, quarterly, and seasonally).
• Maintain analysis of assortment planning, in-season analysis and post-season deep dives to ensure lessons learnt for future strategy.
• Develop and enhance analysis functions.
• Deliver effective stock management, improving stock-turn for the whole business and work stock activity to achieve maximum/minimum stock holding targets.
• Liaise with Buying team to ensure maximum availability for all the channels at launch and availability by style throughout the season
• Create demand forecast by month and week for all Frugi sales channels.
• Agree budget for all channels with Directors along with stock and sales KPIs and discount strategy that feed into the demand forecast.
• Work with the Marketing team to create Seasonal Promotional Plans. Identifying dates for promotions and ascertain forecasted sales targets for individual promotions, based on historic data. Initiate and develop actionable promotional calendar.
• Contribute to the development of departmental and cross-departmental working practices to support delivery of company objectives
• Continual development and improvement of Merchandising planning tools and documents

In Season Trading

• Monitor in-season all channels performance vs budget and at line level, overseeing production of weekly line report to monitor style performance, passing on recommendations to Ecomm/Marketing/Buying/Design team
• Identify promotional requirements to drive sales/exceed budget and maximise stockturn, produce plans which identify incremental sales and margin opportunity and set all prices for promotions/markdowns, ensuring an acceptable margin is being met. Utilize marketing levers to optimize trading to planned targets
• Forecast sales vs budget for full price and markdown activity for all sales channels.
• Reviewing regular sales and stock reports for all sales channels (at Gender/category level) – feedback performance to Directors, identifying areas for opportunity/de-risk if necessary.
• Oversee management of stock between Consumer, Wholesale, Off price and Consignment to ensure the stock is channelled correctly to maximise sales.
• Regularly reforecast seasonal terminal stock risk to review with Directors and suggest strategies to manage effectively.
• Oversee monthly update of continuity styles sales performance and stock levels and reforecast future intake needs. Instigate new POs within budget plans or rescheduling as necessary.
• Provide Merchandising updates to Head of Finance for Monthly Board review meetings

Range Planning

• Create Seasonal Option and Sales Plans by Category, age and gender (monitor options vs plan through the range building process)
• Provide necessary Trend Analysis (to include Seasonal Best Sellers) to support Buyers/Designers in making sound Buying/Design decisions.
• Work with Buying and Wholesale teams to decide on Seasonal Buy quantities by style for all sales channels (using the Trade Best Sellers for guidance and previous sales performance/sell-through’s by style for Consumer)
• Oversee the creation of all Size Ratio’s for purchases, based on previous performance.
• Oversee the creation of buy sheets to pass for production detailing PO requirements by sku in a timely manner.

Ad-Hoc Reports/Analysis

• Oversee the creation of new product data, ensuring data is accurate and up to date.
• Support growth of both the Wholesale and Consumer business by providing all necessary analysis/reports required to make profitable decisions.
• Work with Wholesale team to build stock packages, build viability proposal and analyse profitability of New Business Opportunities.

Managing a team

All line managers are required to ensure that they:

• Provide leadership and direction to the team to meet business and individual objectives, in a way that upholds our values.
• Promote an inclusive culture, embracing diversity and ensuring all team members are treated equally and fairly.
• Act as a role model, inspire others, and project the company values in all that you do.
• Communicate effectively always, to ensure the team are on board and are well informed.
• Provide mentoring and/or coaching to develop the skills and expertise of team members.
• Conduct regular 1-2-1 meetings and annual Personal Development Plan’s (PDP) to monitor and evaluate individual performance, offering constructive feedback and tailored development plans to encourage continuous personal development and growth.
• Provide day to day line management support including holiday approvals, dealing with absences, etc.
• Play an active role in supporting the ongoing health and wellbeing of team members, both face to face and remotely.
• Demonstrate high quality management and deal with sometimes challenging or complex situations, with the support of the HR Team.
• Provide feedback and reporting to senior management, regarding the performance, growth and future needs of your team when required.
• Continuously develop your own leadership and people management skills.

Key Skills and Attributes

• Extensive experience in a Merchandise Planning capacity in a related business.
• Strong analytical and business modelling skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills: ability to communicate at executive level.
• Excellent product commerciality.
• Ability to take initiative, ownership and accountability for the business.
• Multi-channel and multi-market experience preferred.

General responsibilities

All employees are required to ensure that they:

• Treat all colleagues, customers, suppliers and fans with the upmost dignity and respect.
• Act as a role model, uphold and project the company values in all that you do.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members and provide feedback where necessary.
• Maintain records as appropriate and ensure all related documents are filed in an orderly manner.
• Maintain and update records relating to working practices and procedures for use by other team members.
• Travel to industry events or business events where applicable.
• Pursue continuing professional development in relation to the role and its duties and responsibilities as agreed through Personal Development Plan’s or at other times.
• Participate in all mandatory training events, as deemed appropriate for your role or for the company.
• Understand and live our Environmental, Social, and Governance goals; find ways in which you and your team can make a positive contribution and impact through your working practices and behaviours.
• Undertake ad hoc assignments from time to time and other duties as requested by management.
• Understand and ensure the full observation of your contract of employment, the companies operating procedures and policies and its health and safety obligations.

Frugi Mission & Values

• We are here to inspire the eco hero in all of us.
• We will do that by being honest, positive, committed and impactful.

This job description is neither exhaustive nor exclusive and may be reviewed in the future depending upon operational requirements and staffing levels.

The more diversity we have in our team, the more unique perspectives and bright ideas we share. At Frugi we are driven by alternative thinking, which to us means all ideas, personal beliefs, points of view, empower us to be a better more inclusive place to work.

How to Apply:

Send your CV and a covering letter stating why you are exactly the right person to join our team to jobs@welovefrugi.com. Your covering letter is the perfect opportunity to showcase your personality and understanding of all things Frugi – so go for it!!