Accounts Payable Assistant

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

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Matching stock receipted into the warehouse with supplier invoices.

• Preparation of multi-currency payment runs.

• Ensuring prompt payment for stock, enabling us to take maximum settlement discounts.

• Raising price dispute notes to the B & M Teams where necessary

• Ensuring correct debit note deductions are raised and deducted from suppliers.

• Verifying that key high value/volume debit notes are agreed by suppliers

• Review and investigation of Goods Received not Invoiced (GRNI).

• Review and investigation of unallocated cash.

• Check any accounts with debit balances, requesting refunds where appropriate

• Review and clearing down of Unapproved Invoices Register

• Reconciling key supplier accounts on a regular rotational basis, to ensure clear visibility of issues on major accounts

• Assisting with the production of weekly/monthly KPI reporting.

• Assisting the Team Leader with the production of weekly/monthly reporting for management accounts purposes.

• Liaise with auditors during year end process.

What Success Looks Like:

• Paying suppliers within agreed time frames and resolution of queries in a timely manner.

• Maintaining good supplier relationships.

• Cultivating and maintaining good internal business relationships

Qualifications

We'd love to meet someone with:

• Experience dealing with multi country/currency transactions from stock receipt to payment

• Exposure to high volume AP processing

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Accurate and logical approach to work

• Great Time Management Skills

• A Proactive approach to problem solving

• Intermediate Excel skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to rapid change

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!)

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.