Job Description
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
As Head of Finance, you'll have responsibility for managing all accounting transactions and postings, and ensuring we maintain effective controls and processes adhering to our accounting policies. Technical capability, high standards of delivery and driving efficiencies are imperative for success. This role also supports the delivery of business change projects into the accounting function, working closely with the Tech and Business teams to ensure stakeholder engagement, resource management and input/approval of project designs, plans and implementations impacting Finance.
What you'll be doing:
Financial Accounting
5. Ensuring completeness and accuracy of financial postings, both from systems reconciliation and judgments perspective – owning all actuals transaction processing
6. Ensuring the implementation of our accounting is in line with accounting policies owned by the Head of Group Reporting
7. Managing Balance Sheet Risks and Opportunities aligned with FP&A process
8. Delivering Best-in-class Balance Sheet controls, completion and review
9. Preparing relevant Accounting papers, directly liasing with the Head of Group Reporting
10. Ensuring the Accounting team review system feed checks accurately and consistently, working with Tech and the business to deliver root cause analysis and correction
11. Owning the Accounting relationship with Commercial Finance and FP&A to ensure appropriate judgments and accounting adjustments are made on a monthly basis
12. Drive continuous improvements in controls and processes
Business Change
13. Responsible for the practical accounting implementation of any new business projects – this ranges from:Understanding any new accounting treatmentEnsuring appropriate finance scope & system designProviding clear accounting and reporting requirementsSign off on testing and data validationEnsuring adequate Balance Sheet controls and processes for new areasReviewing projects post implementation and taking forward learnings
14. Utilise experience and knowledge, to ensure pragmatic and beneficial solutions to project implementation are found to support ASOS’ growth and strategic ambitions
15. Represent Finance at key business change programme/project senior governance meetings, such as Steering Groups, and ensure risks and issues are appropriately raised and remediated with ASOS’ best interests at centre of mind
16. Ownership of internal Finance Change prioritisation process working across Finance and Tech to deliver solutions to improve finance efficiency in day to day tasks
General
17. Responsible for leading and developing a team of 3 managers and a total team of 15
18. Key member of the Finance Leadership Team (FLT)
19. Work closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to deliver the Finance vision/strategy and ensure continued engagement, talent planning and succession within the wider team
20. Supporting our culture by championing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.
Qualifications
We’d love to meet, someone with…
21. ACA/CIMA/ACCA Qualified – extensive experience post qualification with a technical and process background
22. Self-motivated, proactive and results-focused
23. Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity – a can do attitude
24. Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships with people at all levels
25. Energy, drive, and resilience, able to work in a fast paced environment and answer quickly to business needs
26. Meticulous attention to detail, superb organization skills, and strong sense of ownership
27. Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations from complex business dynamics
28. Bias for process improvement and process discipline to deliver efficiency and improved performance
29. Ability to deal with highly demanding and complex delivery landscape
30. Experience with technical and commercial accounting considerations alongside ability to recognise where specialist areas will need to be consulted – taxation, treasury, legal, CoSec and other similar areas
Additional Information
What’s in it for you?
31. Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
32. ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
33. Employee sample sales
34. Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
35. 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day
36. Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
37. Private medical care scheme
38. Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits