Job Description
This role sits within the Supply Chain Finance team and is focused on supporting the Head of Finance with all areas within Supply Chain: Inbound, Warehouse, Delivery Solutions, and Customer Write-Offs.
The role will have responsibility for the consolidated view of Supply Chain Finance, ensuring each area is reporting accurate and timely numbers, with variances fully explained down to the core operational drivers so that the true underlying performance presented. Further to this, the role holder must ensure sufficient challenge / action plans are in place where needed and support the pursuit of opportunities highlighted.
With a focus on continual improvement, this role will identify ways to further streamline and automate activities / reporting within Supply Chain, freeing up the team to focus on reviewing results and adding value to the operation / wider Finance functions.
About the Team
Here at ASOS, working in Finance means working collaboratively with the business to deliver our mission. Simply put, the role of ASOS Finance is to build and protect business value. As a team, we enable ASOS to be its best self by:
1. Driving long-term growth, profitability, and free cash flow
2. Implementing brilliant processes and controls, levering lean, automation and data science
3. Ensuring ASOS delivers its shorter-term goals
4. Building a leading team and defining new ways of doing finance
We love people who are as passionate about our journey as we are, who have initiative and who embrace change. If this sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you and your experience for the role of Finance Manager – Operations.
The Details
5. Supporting the team, to ensure the business fully understands our financial performance and has the insights and support needed for decision making and optimisation
6. Working with other Finance teams to align commercial strategy with Supply Chain activities
7. Collaborating with the Supply Chain Finance team to produce timely and accurate month end packs, including detailed P&Ls for each Supply Chain area with key operational drivers of performance explained, and full year projections based on the latest trading performance
8. Managing common activities across the various Supply Chain areas, including cash forecasting
9. Supporting the budgeting and forecasting cycles to ensure that commercial and Supply Chain strategies are reflected in forward projections, and that the business has an accurate understanding of the relevant P&L lines
We believe being together in person helps us move faster, connect more deeply, and achieve more as a team. That’s why our approach to working together includes spending at least 3 days a week in the office. It’s a rhythm that speeds up decision-making, helps ASOSers learn from each other more quickly, and builds the kind of culture where people can grow, create, and succeed.
Qualifications
About You
10. Experienced qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/Equivalent)
11. Experience working with management accounts
12. Experience working with complex data sets
13. Experience in producing high-quality analysis and reporting
14. Experience of influencing and managing stakeholders
15. Team player who works for the success of the wider team
16. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, adapt to change and deal with high volumes of information
17. Flexible with the ability to identify opportunities and implement practical solutions
18. Excellent written and oral communication skills
19. Excellent time management and organisational skills
20. Disciplined approach to production and documentation of work
21. Strong leadership and team development
22. Strong stakeholder management capability
Additional Information
BeneFITS’
23. Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!
24. Employee sample sales
25. 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
26. Discretionary bonus scheme
27. Private medical care scheme
28. Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
29. Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences that enable you to thrive and excel in your role
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