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Lyst is a fashion e-commerce platform that brings together thousands of fashion brands and retailers, offering users a convenient way to discover and shop for clothing, shoes, accessories, and more. Their ultimate mission is to revolutionise the online fashion shopping experience by providing a personalised and curated platform that helps users find the perfect fashion items that match their style and preferences. Lyst's purpose is to connect fashion enthusiasts with a vast array of fashion choices, making the process of discovering and purchasing fashion items enjoyable and efficient.

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Lyst

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You need 5+ years in finance, ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified, strong IFRS/FRS101 knowledge, stakeholder management skills, effective communication, coaching experience, and a strategic mindset.

You will manage financial strategy, oversee budgets and reporting, ensure compliance, drive process improvements, and lead the finance team while supporting strategic decisions and revenue growth.

Accounting & Tax

Banking & Finance

London

Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. We are a scale-up business, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace. At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper. The Role As our VP of Finance, you'll be at the heart of driving financial strategy, operations and governance, reporting directly to the CFO and managing our FP&A and core finance teams. This is a great opportunity for the right individual to make a mark in a small but high performing team in a fast paced environment. As a team, we focus on ensuring our reporting is robust and impactful, whilst constantly looking to iterate and improve our processes, to maintain our position as an industry leading department. As the leader of this dynamic team you will have complete visibility across the finance function and have a real impact on how it develops. You will be responsible for ensuring financial rigor while enabling growth, balancing commercial insight with operational excellence, ensuring that the business's risk and opportunities are thought about every day. You'll shape our financial roadmap, own key reporting functions and partner cross-functionally to optimise decision-making across the business. We are looking for someone to lead our finance team in the next phase of Lyst's journey, following its acquisition by ZOZO Group; this is a perfect role for an experienced, senior finance professional who can work at a strategic level but also get stuck into the detail when needed. This role needs someone who wants to drive for results in an exciting business, with a huge amount of ownership and responsibility in this pivotal time for Lyst. Responsibilities Financial strategy * Liaise with group management to ensure the successful merging of Lyst into the group * Ensure cash is effectively managed, monitoring future financing needs and optimising working capital * Oversee the bi-annual budget process, ensuring that financial progress follows the strategic plans set out by Lyst * Monitor performance against the strategic plans, enabling decision making and advising on the impact to future forecasts, ensuring financial accountability is embedded across the business * Manage business cases from stakeholders to unlock investment outside of the budget process * Support on hiring prioritisation decisions, ensuring financial impact is understood and headcount effectively managed Financial operations & compliance * Ensure the successful launch of new revenue streams, balancing compliance and commercials and setting up processes to ensure the accurate capturing of revenue to cash * Ensure the successful integration and monitoring of a tax engine and corresponding filing and reporting requirements to manage US tax compliance * Be responsible for ensuring the delivery of accurate and timely monthly and quarterly reporting, to both external listed company owners and internal management * Ensure the successful delivery of the company's first audit under group management, complying with FRS101 following a transition during the year, a change in auditors and meeting listed parent audit timelines * Be ultimately responsible for all statutory and legislative compliance requirements of Lyst Ltd, as well as the relationship with external advisors * Be ultimately responsible for the everyday running of the core finance team; this covers the following functions: Payroll, Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, Tax and Treasury * Be ultimately responsible for the everyday running of the FP&A finance team; this covers the following functions: Commercial trading performance, Business partnering, Financial modelling and Planning Finance leadership * Autonomously drive change in the finance team and across the wider business to improve processes, identify efficiencies and deliver insight * Be responsible for the strategic planning, creation and implementation of objectives and career development for the finance team Requirements To be successful in this role you will need to have a rounded skill set as well as a fantastic work ethic. We're a high-performance, open and honest team, always pushing to learn and develop. We believe the right person for this role will have the below attributes. Technical knowledge * Have at least 5 years of accounting and finance experience post qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), demonstrating technical competence and able to decipher accounting standards for new and complex accounting topics * Be knowledgeable in IFRS/FRS101 and HMRC regulations (VAT, PAYE, corporation tax) Sphere of influence * Be effective at stakeholder management, balancing the needs of internal and external stakeholders * Be an effective communicator, both verbally and in writing, able to articulate complex financial results in clear and concise updates * Be a hands-on finance leader with a strategic mindset and strong commercial acumen * Enjoy coaching and mentoring junior members of the finance team, with experience in managing a team Scope of accountability * Enjoy reporting, always delivering accurate and engaging content * Have a strong sense of ownership and pride in their work, determined to push for impact * Be confident and efficient at making decisions, able to balance attention to detail with a commercial view, feeling comfortable in ambiguity and uncertainty * Be organised and adept at time management and prioritisation Benefits * Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home * Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst's holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March * Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss * Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service * Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start * Training Allowance: We're big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources * Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People's Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution * Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You'll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses * Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them * Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work * Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more We want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements. Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. We are a scale-up business, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace.At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper.The RoleAs our VP of Finance, you'll be at the heart of driving financial strategy, operations and governance, reporting directly to the CFO and managing our FP&A and core finance teams. This is a great opportunity for the right individual to make a mark in a small but high performing team in a fast paced environment.As a team, we focus on ensuring our reporting is robust and impactful, whilst constantly looking to iterate and improve our processes, to maintain our position as an industry leading department. As the leader of this dynamic team you will have complete visibility across the finance function and have a real impact on how it develops. You will be responsible for ensuring financial rigor while enabling growth, balancing commercial insight with operational excellence, ensuring that the business's risk and opportunities are thought about every day. You'll shape our financial roadmap, own key reporting functions and partner cross-functionally to optimise decision-making across the business.We are looking for someone to lead our finance team in the next phase of Lyst's journey, following its acquisition by ZOZO Group; this is a perfect role for an experienced, senior finance professional who can work at a strategic level but also get stuck into the detail when needed. This role needs someone who wants to drive for results in an exciting business, with a huge amount of ownership and responsibility in this pivotal time for Lyst.ResponsibilitiesFinancial strategy * Liaise with group management to ensure the successful merging of Lyst into the group * Ensure cash is effectively managed, monitoring future financing needs and optimising working capital * Oversee the bi-annual budget process, ensuring that financial progress follows the strategic plans set out by Lyst * Monitor performance against the strategic plans, enabling decision making and advising on the impact to future forecasts, ensuring financial accountability is embedded across the business * Manage business cases from stakeholders to unlock investment outside of the budget process * Support on hiring prioritisation decisions, ensuring financial impact is understood and headcount effectively managedFinancial operations & compliance * Ensure the successful launch of new revenue streams, balancing compliance and commercials and setting up processes to ensure the accurate capturing of revenue to cash * Ensure the successful integration and monitoring of a tax engine and corresponding filing and reporting requirements to manage US tax compliance * Be responsible for ensuring the delivery of accurate and timely monthly and quarterly reporting, to both external listed company owners and internal management * Ensure the successful delivery of the company's first audit under group management, complying with FRS101 following a transition during the year, a change in auditors and meeting listed parent audit timelines * Be ultimately responsible for all statutory and legislative compliance requirements of Lyst Ltd, as well as the relationship with external advisors * Be ultimately responsible for the everyday running of the core finance team; this covers the following functions: Payroll, Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, Tax and Treasury * Be ultimately responsible for the everyday running of the FP&A finance team; this covers the following functions: Commercial trading performance, Business partnering, Financial modelling and PlanningFinance leadership * Autonomously drive change in the finance team and across the wider business to improve processes, identify efficiencies and deliver insight * Be responsible for the strategic planning, creation and implementation of objectives and career development for the finance teamRequirementsTo be successful in this role you will need to have a rounded skill set as well as a fantastic work ethic. We're a high-performance, open and honest team, always pushing to learn and develop. We believe the right person for this role will have the below attributes.Technical knowledge * Have at least 5 years of accounting and finance experience post qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), demonstrating technical competence and able to decipher accounting standards for new and complex accounting topics * Be knowledgeable in IFRS/FRS101 and HMRC regulations (VAT, PAYE, corporation tax)Sphere of influence * Be effective at stakeholder management, balancing the needs of internal and external stakeholders * Be an effective communicator, both verbally and in writing, able to articulate complex financial results in clear and concise updates * Be a hands-on finance leader with a strategic mindset and strong commercial acumen * Enjoy coaching and mentoring junior members of the finance team, with experience in managing a teamScope of accountability * Enjoy reporting, always delivering accurate and engaging content * Have a strong sense of ownership and pride in their work, determined to push for impact * Be confident and efficient at making decisions, able to balance attention to detail with a commercial view, feeling comfortable in ambiguity and uncertainty * Be organised and adept at time management and prioritisationBenefits * Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home * Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst's holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March * Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss * Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service * Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start * Training Allowance: We're big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources * Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People's Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution * Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You'll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses * Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them * Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work * Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and moreWe want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

VP of Finance (12m FTC - Maternity Cover) - Lyst

&lt;p&gt;Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium &amp;amp; luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. We are a scale-up business, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search &amp;amp; discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Role &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As our VP of Finance, you'll be at the heart of driving financial strategy, operations and governance, reporting directly to the CFO and managing our FP&amp;amp;A and core finance teams. This is a great opportunity for the right individual to make a mark in a small but high performing team in a fast paced environment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a team, we focus on ensuring our reporting is robust and impactful, whilst constantly looking to iterate and improve our processes, to maintain our position as an industry leading department. As the leader of this dynamic team you will have complete visibility across the finance function and have a real impact on how it develops. You will be responsible for ensuring financial rigor while enabling growth, balancing commercial insight with operational excellence, ensuring that the business's risk and opportunities are thought about every day. You'll shape our financial roadmap, own key reporting functions and partner cross-functionally to optimise decision-making across the business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are looking for someone to lead our finance team in the next phase of Lyst's journey, following its acquisition by ZOZO Group; this is a perfect role for an experienced, senior finance professional who can work at a strategic level but also get stuck into the detail when needed. This role needs someone who wants to drive for results in an exciting business, with a huge amount of ownership and responsibility in this pivotal time for Lyst.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Responsibilities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Financial strategy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Liaise with group management to ensure the successful merging of Lyst into the group&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ensure cash is effectively managed, monitoring future financing needs and optimising working capital&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oversee the bi-annual budget process, ensuring that financial progress follows the strategic plans set out by Lyst&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Monitor performance against the strategic plans, enabling decision making and advising on the impact to future forecasts, ensuring financial accountability is embedded across the business&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manage business cases from stakeholders to unlock investment outside of the budget process&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Support on hiring prioritisation decisions, ensuring financial impact is understood and headcount effectively managed&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Financial operations &amp;amp; compliance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ensure the successful launch of new revenue streams, balancing compliance and commercials and setting up processes to ensure the accurate capturing of revenue to cash&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ensure the successful integration and monitoring of a tax engine and corresponding filing and reporting requirements to manage US tax compliance&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be responsible for ensuring the delivery of accurate and timely monthly and quarterly reporting, to both external listed company owners and internal management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ensure the successful delivery of the company's first audit under group management, complying with FRS101 following a transition during the year, a change in auditors and meeting listed parent audit timelines&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be ultimately responsible for all statutory and legislative compliance requirements of Lyst Ltd, as well as the relationship with external advisors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be ultimately responsible for the everyday running of the core finance team; this covers the following functions: Payroll, Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, Tax and Treasury&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be ultimately responsible for the everyday running of the FP&amp;amp;A finance team; this covers the following functions: Commercial trading performance, Business partnering, Financial modelling and Planning&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finance leadership&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Autonomously drive change in the finance team and across the wider business to improve processes, identify efficiencies and deliver insight&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be responsible for the strategic planning, creation and implementation of objectives and career development for the finance team&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requirements&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To be successful in this role you will need to have a rounded skill set as well as a fantastic work ethic. We're a high-performance, open and honest team, always pushing to learn and develop. We believe the right person for this role will have the below attributes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Technical knowledge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Have at least 5 years of accounting and finance experience post qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), demonstrating technical competence and able to decipher accounting standards for new and complex accounting topics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be knowledgeable in IFRS/FRS101 and HMRC regulations (VAT, PAYE, corporation tax)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sphere of influence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be effective at stakeholder management, balancing the needs of internal and external stakeholders&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be an effective communicator, both verbally and in writing, able to articulate complex financial results in clear and concise updates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be a hands-on finance leader with a strategic mindset and strong commercial acumen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy coaching and mentoring junior members of the finance team, with experience in managing a team&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope of accountability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy reporting, always delivering accurate and engaging content&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Have a strong sense of ownership and pride in their work, determined to push for impact&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be confident and efficient at making decisions, able to balance attention to detail with a commercial view, feeling comfortable in ambiguity and uncertainty&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be organised and adept at time management and prioritisation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benefits&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our Ways of Working:&lt;/strong&gt; We all come into the office on &lt;strong&gt;Tuesdays&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Thursdays&lt;/strong&gt;, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time Off:&lt;/strong&gt; In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst's holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Competitive Family Leave Package:&lt;/strong&gt; This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment &amp;amp; Loss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clothing Benefit:&lt;/strong&gt; We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Private Healthcare: &lt;/strong&gt;Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Training Allowance:&lt;/strong&gt; We're big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pension Scheme:&lt;/strong&gt; Our pension provider is The People's Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eye Tests and Vouchers:&lt;/strong&gt; Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You'll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cycle-to-Work Scheme:&lt;/strong&gt; Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Transport Season Ticket Loan:&lt;/strong&gt; Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Social Events: &lt;/strong&gt;Frequent company wide social events including Christmas &amp;amp; summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.&lt;/p&gt;

VP of Finance (12m FTC - Maternity Cover)

You need 1+ years of SQL and dashboarding tool experience, strong numerical skills, e-commerce knowledge, a passion for fashion, and good communication abilities. Team commitment is essential.

You will produce performance reports, forecast market changes, analyze retailer performance, support merchandising strategies, monitor KPIs, and collaborate with teams to drive data-informed decisions.

Data

Marketing

Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. We are a scale-up business, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace. At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper. The Role We are looking for an Analyst to join our Analytics Chapter, comprised of Analysts and Analytics Engineers. In the role, you'll work closely with our Commercial, Editorial, Brand, and Partnerships teams. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills, commercial awareness, and an authentic enthusiasm for fashion. You should be detail-focused and naturally curious, yet able to see the bigger picture and link your work to broader company goals. This role is integral to advancing our mission to become the world's most intelligent fashion platform. Responsibilities: * Produce reports on the performance of joint commercial partnerships between Lyst and our retailer partners * Provide impact estimates and forecasts for commercial stakeholders based on potential micro and macro market changes * Understand the key drivers of our retailer partners' performances on our platform and how we can create win-win scenarios * Assist on our assortment strategy, content-based merchandising, and campaign planning * Monitor and report on key performance indicators across team initiatives and link them to wider commercial performance * Use your broad exposure to our data to help identify opportunities and risks, trends, and recommendations. * Support our Senior Analysts in conducting analyses into trends driving business performance * Work across our Editorial, Brand, and Partnerships teams to support strategic initiatives, continuous reporting, and data-driven decision-making * Help these teams make data-driven decisions and empower them with self-serve data where appropriate * Collaborate with data peers (other Analysts, Analytics Engineering, etc.) in order to champion our data and enable data consumption across the organisation Requirements * Technically confident with 1+ years of experience writing SQL in a live environment. * 1+ years of experience working on a productionised dashboarding tool. Looker is preferred, but not essential * Strong numerical ability and understanding of e-commerce metrics * Ability to derive insights, identify trends, and assess commercial & strategic opportunities/risks from large data sets * A knowledge of the fashion industry is a must: genuine interest in fashion trends, brands, and the wider retail environment * High standard of written and verbal communication. Ability to articulate complex data problems to non-technical audiences * A knowledge of statistics is preferred, but not essential * Behavioural qualities: strong commitment to team success and Lyst's values Benefits * Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home * Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst's holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March * Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss * Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service * Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start * Training Allowance: We're big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources * Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People's Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution * Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You'll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses * Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them * Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work * Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more We want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements. Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. We are a scale-up business, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace.At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper.The RoleWe are looking for an Analyst to join our Analytics Chapter, comprised of Analysts and Analytics Engineers. In the role, you'll work closely with our Commercial, Editorial, Brand, and Partnerships teams. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills, commercial awareness, and an authentic enthusiasm for fashion. You should be detail-focused and naturally curious, yet able to see the bigger picture and link your work to broader company goals. This role is integral to advancing our mission to become the world's most intelligent fashion platform.Responsibilities: * Produce reports on the performance of joint commercial partnerships between Lyst and our retailer partners * Provide impact estimates and forecasts for commercial stakeholders based on potential micro and macro market changes * Understand the key drivers of our retailer partners' performances on our platform and how we can create win-win scenarios * Assist on our assortment strategy, content-based merchandising, and campaign planning * Monitor and report on key performance indicators across team initiatives and link them to wider commercial performance * Use your broad exposure to our data to help identify opportunities and risks, trends, and recommendations. * Support our Senior Analysts in conducting analyses into trends driving business performance * Work across our Editorial, Brand, and Partnerships teams to support strategic initiatives, continuous reporting, and data-driven decision-making * Help these teams make data-driven decisions and empower them with self-serve data where appropriate * Collaborate with data peers (other Analysts, Analytics Engineering, etc.) in order to champion our data and enable data consumption across the organisationRequirements * Technically confident with 1+ years of experience writing SQL in a live environment. * 1+ years of experience working on a productionised dashboarding tool. Looker is preferred, but not essential * Strong numerical ability and understanding of e-commerce metrics * Ability to derive insights, identify trends, and assess commercial & strategic opportunities/risks from large data sets * A knowledge of the fashion industry is a must: genuine interest in fashion trends, brands, and the wider retail environment * High standard of written and verbal communication. Ability to articulate complex data problems to non-technical audiences * A knowledge of statistics is preferred, but not essential * Behavioural qualities: strong commitment to team success and Lyst's valuesBenefits * Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home * Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst's holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March * Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss * Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service * Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start * Training Allowance: We're big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources * Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People's Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution * Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You'll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses * Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them * Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work * Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and moreWe want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Data Analyst - Lyst

&lt;p&gt;Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium &amp;amp; luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. We are a scale-up business, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search &amp;amp; discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Role &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are looking for an Analyst to join our Analytics Chapter, comprised of Analysts and Analytics Engineers. In the role, you'll work closely with our Commercial, Editorial, Brand, and Partnerships teams. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills, commercial awareness, and an authentic enthusiasm for fashion. You should be detail-focused and naturally curious, yet able to see the bigger picture and link your work to broader company goals. This role is integral to advancing our mission to become the world's most intelligent fashion platform. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Responsibilities&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Produce reports on the performance of joint commercial partnerships between Lyst and our retailer partners&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Provide impact estimates and forecasts for commercial stakeholders based on potential micro and macro market changes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Understand the key drivers of our retailer partners' performances on our platform and how we can create win-win scenarios&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Assist on our assortment strategy, content-based merchandising, and campaign planning&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Monitor and report on key performance indicators across team initiatives and link them to wider commercial performance&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use your broad exposure to our data to help identify opportunities and risks, trends, and recommendations. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Support our Senior Analysts in conducting analyses into trends driving business performance&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work across our Editorial, Brand, and Partnerships teams to support strategic initiatives, continuous reporting, and data-driven decision-making&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Help these teams make data-driven decisions and empower them with self-serve data where appropriate&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Collaborate with data peers (other Analysts, Analytics Engineering, etc.) in order to champion our data and enable data consumption across the organisation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requirements&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Technically confident with 1+ years of experience writing SQL in a live environment. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;1+ years of experience working on a productionised dashboarding tool. Looker is preferred, but not essential&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Strong numerical ability and understanding of e-commerce metrics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ability to derive insights, identify trends, and assess commercial &amp;amp; strategic opportunities/risks from large data sets&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A knowledge of the fashion industry is a must: genuine interest in fashion trends, brands, and the wider retail environment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;High standard of written and verbal communication. Ability to articulate complex data problems to non-technical audiences&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A knowledge of statistics is preferred, but not essential&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Behavioural qualities: strong commitment to team success and Lyst's values&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benefits&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our Ways of Working:&lt;/strong&gt; We all come into the office on &lt;strong&gt;Tuesdays&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Thursdays&lt;/strong&gt;, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time Off:&lt;/strong&gt; In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst's holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Competitive Family Leave Package:&lt;/strong&gt; This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment &amp;amp; Loss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clothing Benefit:&lt;/strong&gt; We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Private Healthcare: &lt;/strong&gt;Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Training Allowance:&lt;/strong&gt; We're big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pension Scheme:&lt;/strong&gt; Our pension provider is The People's Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eye Tests and Vouchers:&lt;/strong&gt; Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You'll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cycle-to-Work Scheme:&lt;/strong&gt; Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Transport Season Ticket Loan:&lt;/strong&gt; Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Social Events: &lt;/strong&gt;Frequent company wide social events including Christmas &amp;amp; summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.&lt;/p&gt;

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