Finance Analyst

We’re ASOS, the online retailer for fashion lovers all around the world.

We exist to give our customers 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 judgement, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

But how are we showing up? We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter and we placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer list.

Everyone needs some help showing up as their best self. Let our Talent team know if you need any adjustments throughout the process in whatever way works best for you.

The Details 

This role reports into the Senior Finance Analyst in the Core Costs & Capex team within Financial Accounting (FA). The role focuses on the reporting of the financial performance of the business. Key responsibilities are delivering accurate monthly actuals in a timely manner, preparing and optimising balance sheet reconciliations and supporting a wide array of stakeholders at different levels of the organisation with insights whilst helping to drive finance initiatives.

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 Finance Analyst – Core Costs & Capex.

About You

Financial Accounting

• Play a key part in planning & delivering monthly actuals, including monthly meetings, posting accruals and prepayments, analysing variances between actuals and forecasts/prior periods & cost schedules
• Responsible for recording professional fees, facility costs, travel costs, payroll and other business part-nering entries along with reviewing GRNI posting for aged balances
• Produce monthly reporting in a timely and accurate manner, updating the Finance Manager on key highlights and trends
• Collaborating closely with the wider Finance function and other stakeholders throughout the business
• Support finance team on current initiatives and any ad hoc projects identified

Financial Control

• Preparing and optimising balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with re-porting standards
• Assisting in the successful delivery of interim and year-end audits ensuring all documentation pro-vided is delivered in a timely manner and to auditable standard
• Updating applicable accounting policies and process notes along with identifying any control weak-nesses to management

We’d love to meet, someone with…

• Part way through an accounting qualification (preferably CIMA or ACCA).
• 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.

BeneFITS’

• 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 for a special moment
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private medical care scheme
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits

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