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Company Description
We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting-edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.
We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and to channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.
Job Description
About The Role
As a Senior Finance Analyst at ASOS you will have responsibility for helping to deliver financial and business plans. You will be partnering with the business and other finance teams to deliver accurate budgets, forecasts and reporting. You will be a fundamental part of the wider finance team and will help contribute to the success of both finance and ASOS.
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:
- Driving long-term growth, profitability, and free cash flow
- Implementing brilliant processes and controls, levering lean, automation and data science
- Ensuring ASOS delivers its shorter-term goals
- 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 for the role of Senior Finance Analyst - Customer Transaction Costs.
What you will be doing..
This is a Commercial finance role, focused on the payment options available to customers at checkout.
- Operating as the key finance support for the Payments (Transaction Costs) team, working closely with senior management across the Payments, Payments Tech and Trade teams to develop business cases to assess the viability of new initiatives, for example fee negotiations and launching new payment methods in new markets
- Working closely with the Payments team to develop budgets and quarterly reforecasts, while maintaining a strong level of scrutiny to ensure costs remain controlled
- Providing monthly variance reporting to your manager and to FP&A
- Working closely with the Payments team to set strategic direction and develop a longer-term plan for Payments across key markets and all products (e.g., Card Payments, Alternative Payment Methods (e.g., Klarna, PayPal) and Gift Cards)
- Driving continuous improvement in transaction cost reporting (e.g., trends in payment mix and customer behaviour) in order to provide the Payments team with the best-quality data for decision making
Qualifications
We’d love to meet someone with…
Experience
- An accounting qualification (preferably CIMA, ACCA or ACA)
- Business partnering experience
- A proven ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet tight deadlines
- A strong financial modelling and analytical skills
- Advanced skills in Excel
- A high standard of accuracy with financial and statistical data
- An ability to organise own work and to take initiative
- An ability to determine insightful observations from detail for management attention
- Commercial awareness
- Good communication/ interpersonal and influencing skills
- A flexible approach and open to change
- Pro-activeness
Skills
- Team player who works for the success of the wider team
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, adapt to change and deal with high volumes of information
- Flexible with the ability to identify opportunities and implement practical solutions
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Disciplined approach to production and documentation of work
- SQL desirable: existing capability or willingness to learn
Additional Information
What’s in it for you?
- Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
- ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
- Employee sample sales
- Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
- 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day
- Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
- Private medical care scheme
- Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
Our Commitments
We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how are we doing it?
We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.
We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people - find out more here.
Do you need any reasonable adjustments? Our recruitment team will be happy to support you in the best way possible if you feel comfortable raising this. It’s also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.
If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.
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