ASOS Hiring for Senior Finance Analyst – Trade Job at London, England Full Time

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 channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Senior Finance Analyst – Commercial Finance – Trade

Location: Mornington Crescent, Greater London House, NW1
Department: Finance

Level: Implement

Reports to: Finance Manager

The Role

This role sits within our trading finance team where you will be responsible for supporting on financial analysis and decision making to help support ASOS in its mission to be the number one destination for fashion loving 20 somethings. You will work closely with stakeholders across the business in guiding them on business cases and actuals analysis, ensuring that sales potential and profit impact are front of mind.

This role is an excellent opportunity to work right in the heart of ASOS and get to grips with all the KPIs that drive our sales. We are looking for candidates who are comfortable working in the detail to analyse business performance, but also enjoy working with stakeholders to build robust financial models to assess the potential impact of proposed sales impacting initiatives.

THE TEAM

We are currently looking for Senior Finance Analysts to join our Trading Finance team.

Our finance function operates at the heart of ASOS. Say goodbye to preconceptions of bean-counters and hello to a multi-functional, business facing department. Our Trading Finance team work closely with stakeholders all over the business to drives sales, understand profit and model out investment opportunities.

ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings. Through market-leading web and app experiences and a selection of more than 850 brands, as well as own-brand clothing and accessories, ASOS serves 24.5 million customers in 200 markets and in ten languages. We are led by our purpose, driven by our mission and guided by our values. Our purpose is to give you the confidence to be whoever you want to be and our mission is to become the world’s number one destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings. Our values are authentic, brave, creative and disciplined.

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 and your experience for the role of Senior Finance Analyst.

What you’ll be doing…

• Act as a finance business partner with various stakeholders, supporting the business to build business cases and work with them through to implementation.
• Own the budget and reforecasts for trading lines in the P&L, challenging stakeholders to reach ambitious targets.
• Work with insights team to understand and analyse financial information to guide decision making it the business.
• Coordinate with other finance teams to build out profit impact of initiatives and ensure full impact is reflected in subsequent budgets.
• Perform month-end analysis and reporting on variance to forecast.
• Regularly work on ad-hoc analysis and scenario modelling to inform business decision making
• Contribute to weekly reporting for C-suite.

We’d love to meet someone with…

• An accounting qualification (preferably CIMA, ACCA or ACA).
• Business partnering & stakeholder management 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 is open to change.
• A pro-active and curious attitude.

Additional Information

What’s in it for you

• Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
• Performance related bonus
• Flex benefits allowance – which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)

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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’re we doing it?

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.

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.

There are safe space employee networks and we host a monthly DEI events series to help support and celebrate all of our people. We are constantly listening to our people, evolving, changing and taking a flexible approach to how we make ASOS truly inclusive.