Senior Finance Analyst - Commercial

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.

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.

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 – Commercial.

This role primarily focuses on business partnering with the product team to support decisions around stock, trading and buying initiatives. You will be involved in challenging the output and analysing variances to last year and the latest forecast, as well as reporting on key metrics and financial performance. You will also look at the full end to end P&L for different cuts of data to provide insightful information to Commercial teams on Product and Brand profitability.

Being able to model commercial propositions and provide ad hoc analysis on business requests on short notice is part of the fun. We are looking for someone who enjoys working in a highly reactive trade environment, has a strong attention to detail and who is able to effectively manage a group of senior stakeholders.

Things that you will be involved in:

• Acting as key business partner to the product team, providing financial support for a number of business led projects.
• Reviewing performance and profitability by brand/department/product type with the business.
• Reviewing and challenging the company WSSI (intake, stock, sales and returns).
• Understanding of margin, intake, and stock from a commercial finance perspective.
• Working closely with the business to forecast and track accurately.
• Adding value to financial performance through developing and monitoring key performance indicators.
• Tracking and challenging the business on any tasks/initiatives to support the business to deliver on profit targets.
• Liaising with other Finance teams, to ensure a collaborative approach towards business planning and forecasting.
• Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.

We’d love to meet, someone with…

• An accounting qualification (preferably CIMA, ACCA or ACA).
• Business partnering experience.
• Enjoys working in a fast pace, reactive environment.
• 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.
• Pro-activeness.

What's in it for you?

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

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’re 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.

How can we support you to be your best self? Our Talent team will be happy to provide support e.g. if you need additional time to prepare for an assessment or you have requirements for any part of the interview/hiring process - just let us know by email or phone, whatever works best for you. 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.