Finance Manager - Returns & Basket Metrics

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Company Description

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.

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:

• Driving long-term growth, profitability, and free cash flow,
• Implementing brilliant processes and controls, leveraging lean, automation and data science
• Ensuring ASOS delivers its shorter-term goals
• 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

• Managing and developing a team of 3, including 2 senior finance analysts and an analyst
• Responsible for forecasting return rates and monitoring any risks or opportunity against the forecast
• Updating senior management on return rate performance
• Analysis on the drivers of our returns rates to improve business understanding and identify any potential opportunities to reduce the rates
• Tracking and challenging the business on any return rate initiatives
• Working closely with the product and global trade teams to review return rates by product and by country
• Responsible for forecasting average selling price and average basket value and therefore units by warehouse and orders by country
• Working closing with supply chain finance and global planning teams to communicate and explain any variances to forecast for units and orders
• Providing financial support for a number of business led projects and initiatives
• Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies

Qualifications

Who We'd Like to Meet

• ACA/CIMA/ACCA Qualified
• 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 presenting to senior management

Additional Information

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