Finance Manager

Company Description

We’re ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly we’re 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.

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 this role.

Job Description

As a Finance Manager at ASOS you will have responsibility for helping to deliver the 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 help contribute to the success of both finance and ASOS. 

What you’ll be doing… 

• Managing and developing a team of 5, including 2 senior finance analysts, 2 analysts and 1 intern 
• Ownership of margin, basket metrics, markdown, intake and stock from a commercial finance perspective 
• Working closely with the business to forecast margin and markdown 
• Reviewing and challenging the company WSSI (intake, stock, sales and returns) 
• Responsible for forecasting average selling price and average basket value and therefore units by warehouse and orders by country 
• Liaising with other Finance teams, to ensure a collaborative approach towards business planning and forecasting. 
• Adding value to financial performance through developing and monitoring key performance indicators. 
• Business partnering with the Buying, Merchandising and Global Planning teams and providing financial support for a number of business led projects 
• Consolidating and challenging merchandising’s forecasts by department/supplier/brand 
• Ownership of the stock cashflow forecast and month end analysis on any variances to forecast 
• Review of month end postings and balance sheet recs for rebates and supplier markdown funding 
• Tracking and challenging the business on any tasks/initiatives owned by retail 
• Monthly review of profitability by brand/department/product type with the business 

Qualifications

We’d love to meet someone with…

• Ability to analyse and interpret financial data, draw conclusions and make recommendations 
• Strong communication and the capability to prioritise and work in a fast-paced environment 
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and line management skills 
• Financial modelling and use of financial and reporting systems (MS Excel, SQL Server, Microstrategy, TM1, Dynamics all preferred) 
• Excellent presentational skills (MS PowerPoint) and confident of presenting to senior management 
• ACA/CIMA/ACCA Qualified 

Additional Information

We will give you a competitive salary, bonus scheme, staff discount, sample sales and pension matching but also a fantastic bunch of flexible benefits that focus on your health, wealth & inner self for you and your friends and family.   

• 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!)

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.