Job Description
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 bet self by:
1. Driving long-term growth, profitability, and free cash flow,
2. Implementing brilliant processes and controls, leveraging lean, automation and data science
3. Ensuring ASOS delivers its shorter-term goals
4. Building a leading team and defining new ways of doing finance
About the Role
This role is responsible for forecasting, analysing, and reporting on returns, our average selling price and our average basket value. You will work closely with the senior global commerce director and her team, as well as the buying and merchandising teams to review performance of these metrics and drive forward business understanding. You will also be responsible for the development of a team of 3 analysts.
What You’ll be Doing
5. Managing and developing a team of 3, including 2 senior finance analysts and an analyst
6. Responsible for forecasting return rates and monitoring any risks or opportunity against the forecast
7. Updating senior management on return rate performance
8. Analysis on the drivers of our returns rates to improve business understanding and identify any potential opportunities to reduce the rates
9. Tracking and challenging the business on any return rate initiatives
10. Working closely with the product and global trade teams to review return rates by product and by country
11. Responsible for forecasting average selling price and average basket value and therefore units by warehouse and orders by country
12. Working closing with supply chain finance and global planning teams to communicate and explain any variances to forecast for units and orders
13. Providing financial support for a number of business led projects and initiatives
14. Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies
Qualifications
Who We’d Like to Meet
15. ACA/CIMA/ACCA Qualified
16. Ability to analyse and interpret financial data, draw conclusions and make recommendations
17. Strong communication and the capability to prioritise and work in a fast-paced environment
18. Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and line management skills
19. Financial modelling and use of financial and reporting systems (MS Excel, SQL Server, Microstrategy, TM1, Dynamics all preferred)
20. Excellent presentational skills (MS PowerPoint) and confident presenting to senior management
Additional Information
What’s in it for you?
21. Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
22. ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
23. Employee sample sales
24. Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
25. 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day
26. Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
27. Private medical care scheme
28. Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits