Senior Finance Analyst

Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry, connecting customers in over 190 countries with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,400 of the world’s best brands and charming boutiques from around the world. Farfetch opens a world of luxury for endless expressions of style, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace.

FINANCE

The Finance team stands as a strategic pillar of our organization, enabling the delivery of our business and financial goals, ensuring robust financial controls and optimizing overall financial performance. Finance is responsible for managing capital, ensuring financial integrity, optimizing resource allocation, and delivering accurate reporting to drive sustainable growth and profitability.

PORTO

Our office is near Porto, in the north of Portugal, and is located in a vibrant business hub. It offers a dynamic and welcoming environment where our employees can connect and network with a large community of tech professionals.

THE ROLE

As a Finance Business Partner, you will be a key contributor to financial transformation and support the company's growth and profitability objectives. Reporting to the Finance Business Partner Manager, you will work closely with the Finance team and cross-functional stakeholders, with strong exposure to the business, to support performance analysis, forecasting and decision-making. You will manage financial performance across the global marketplace, focusing on both financial performance and operational costs (e.g. customer compensation costs, reimbursements). The role requires strong analytical skills, a genuine interest in how the business operates, and the ability to connect financial, accounting, and operational perspectives.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Cost control and estimation: act as the Finance point of contact for topics such as customer reimbursements and compensation, managing accruals and ensuring costs are accurately reflected, working closely with Accounting and Operations teams to guarantee data accuracy and compliance with accounting standards

• Data analysis and modeling: work extensively with Tech and Data teams to build and improve the granularity and accuracy of figures, and develop or adjust internal financial models, including reconciliation between Finance and Ops to ensure they are accurate and reliable

• Operations initiatives portfolio monitoring: support and provide financial guidance on operations initiatives, including recurring reviews with Tech and Accounting and tracking the financial impact of cost optimization and operational improvement projects

• Mid- and long-term planning: support forecasting and budgeting processes by collecting trends and initiatives and incorporate on forecasting models. Analyze deviations versus plan and provide actionable insights

• Performance monitoring and communication: Develop reports and dashboards for regular performance discussions with senior leadership, providing recommendations (acting as a bridge between financial and operational perspectives by translating data into actionable insights)

WHO YOU ARE

• Degree in Economics, Management, Accounting, or a related field with a strong analytical focus; 5+ years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, business partnering, or audit

• Strong cross-functional communication skills, able to work closely with operations and accounting teams and translate financial information into business-relevant insights

• Analytical, detail-oriented, comfortable working with large datasets, identifying patterns, and proposing data-driven scenarios to apply to accruals and forecasting models

• Proficiency in Office tools (especially Excel and PowerPoint) and experience with data modeling and visualization tools (SQL/BigQuery, Looker or similar)

• Curious and proactive, interested in building and improving tools and processes, demonstrating critical thinking and a continuous improvement mindset

• Fluency in English, written and spoken

REWARDS & BENEFITS

• Health insurance for the whole family and other well-being resources

• 25 Days of Annual Leave (above the statutory) and additional Caring Days (2 days per year) and

• Boomerang: sabbatical program after 5 years service

• Training opportunities and free access to LinkedIn Learning

• Flexible benefits program

• Flexible working environment

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT & SCAM DISCLAIMER

• EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES- Farfetch is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

• SCAM DISCLAIMER- It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activities involving individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent Farfetch in order to attract candidates to a SCAM. Please be aware that Farfetch does not conduct recruitment processes through messaging apps or any unofficial communication channels, other than our official careers website. Additionally, Farfetch will never ask candidates for any form of payment during the recruitment process.

As a Finance Business Partner, you will be a key contributor to financial transformation and support the company's growth and profitability objectives. Reporting to the Finance Business Partner Manager, you will work closely with the Finance team and cross-functional stakeholders, with strong exposure to the business, to support performance analysis, forecasting and decision-making. You will manage financial performance across the global marketplace, focusing on both financial performance and operational costs (e.g. customer compensation costs, reimbursements). The role requires strong analytical skills, a genuine interest in how the business operates, and the ability to connect financial, accounting, and operational perspectives.