Finance Manager - Supply Chain

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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 sits within the Supply Chain Finance team and is focussed on supporting the Head of Finance with all areas within Supply Chain; Inbound, Warehouse, Delivery Solutions, Customer Care & Customer Write-Off's.

The role will have responsibility for the consolidated view of Supply Chain Finance, ensuring each area are reporting accurate and timely numbers, with variances fully explained down the core operational reasons and the true underlying performance presented. Further to this, ensuring sufficient challenge / action plans in place where needed and opportunities highlighted.

In addition, the role will set about find ways to reduce the amount of time taken to produce numbers / reporting within Supply Chain, resulting in the team spending less time doing numbers, and more time reviewing and adding value to the operation / wider Finance functions.

What You'll be Doing

• Supporting the team, to ensure the business fully understands the financial performance, and have the insights and support needed to optimise of their business areas.
• Working with other finance teams to align commercial strategy with supply chain activities to optimise performance.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis across relevant areas, utilising a range of data sources to model scenarios and allow stakeholders to make effective, data-driven decisions.
• Ensuring reported monthly results are accurate.
• Supporting with forecasting processes to ensure the business has an accurate understanding of the relevant P&L lines, ensuring commercial and supply chain strategies are reflected in forward projections.
• Working with change and transformation team and stakeholders across the business to deliver improvements to processes and data-flows; improving accuracy and efficiency.
• Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.

Qualifications

Who We'd Like to Meet

Experience

• Experienced qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/Equivalent)
• Experience working in a supply chain or manufacturing environment in a business partnering focussed role.
• Experience of working with complex data sets and performing scenario planning and modelling.
• Experience in producing high-quality analysis and reporting
• Experience of influencing and managing stakeholders

Skills

• Team player who works for the success of the wider team
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, adapt to change and deal with high volumes of information
• Flexible with the ability to identify opportunities and implement practical solutions
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Disciplined approach to production and documentation of work
• Strong leadership and team development
• Strong stakeholder management capability

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