Senior Finance Analyst - Customer (Payments, Commission, Returns)

ASOS.com Ltd; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online fashion retailer in Camden Town is seeking a Financial Accountant to manage cash payments and liaise with various finance teams. Ideal candidates will have an accounting qualification, solid understanding of IFRS, and advanced Excel skills. The role offers a strong teamwork environment and various benefits including employee discounts and private medical care.

Benefits

Employee discount (ASOS discount)

Fixed Annual Payment as a bonus

25 days paid annual leave plus an extra celebration day

Private medical care scheme

Qualifications

• Proven ability to plan and prioritise workload to meet tight deadlines.
• Proactiveness in organising own work and taking initiative.

Responsibilities

• Recording and analysing manual payments.
• Producing month-end bank reconciliations.
• Maintaining a robust financial control environment.

Skills

Accounting qualification (preferably ACA or equivalent)

Solid understanding of IFRS

Advanced skills in Excel

Strong attention to detail

Good communication and interpersonal skills

Job description

Overview

Company Description: We are ASOS, the online retailer for fashion lovers around the world. We aim to give our customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and we encourage our people to be their true selves and channel creativity on a platform used by millions. We are committed to inclusion and have several recognitions and commitments, including Inclusive Companies, Disability Confident Committed, and Race at Work Charter commitments. If you need adjustments during the process, please let our Talent team know in the way that works best for you.

Role

This role reports to the manager for the Customer Journey team within Financial Accounting (FA) and has one direct report. The role is split between owning our cash payments process (tracking and posting non-automated payments across the business) and liaising closely with Accounts Payable, Treasury, and Tax. It also covers the Group\'s bank reconciliation process and includes some IFRS 15 responsibilities, including recognition of our Partner Fulfils commissions and the company-wide returns provision.

Team

ASOS Finance works collaboratively with the business to deliver our mission and build and protect value. The team enables ASOS to be its best self by driving long-term growth, implementing strong processes and controls, supporting shorter-term goals, and building and defining new ways of doing finance.

What you\'ll be doing

Financial Accounting

• Recording and analysing manual payments, ensuring they are correctly posted into our financial systems and reconciled to bank
• Monitoring payment accounts to ensure appropriate sign-off
• Clearing reconciling items from payments and receipts bank accounts and tracking KPIs, supporting finance analysts and stakeholders
• Recording and communicating system issues, taking ownership to support the team
• Guiding and mentoring finance analysts in the CJ team and wider FA team
• Understanding and posting our monthly returns provision, challenging applicable financial standards, and working with Commercial Finance to understand drivers
• Posting and tracking Partner Fulfils payments and related commissions, then completing bank reconciliations
• Seeking continuous improvement through technology/automation to improve ways of working, controls, and processes
• Collaborating with the business and wider finance teams to understand accounting implications of business initiatives and associated changes from requirements through testing to implementation

Financial Control

• Producing month-end bank reconciliations, overall bank position, and revenue-to-cash reconciliation
• Contributing to the financial control pack for cash, feed checks, and returns provision
• Ensuring accounting memos and policies remain up to date and capture cash-impacting projects
• Maintaining a robust financial control environment, from posting journals to assisting with external audit activity at half year and year-end

Office and working arrangement

We believe being together in person helps us move faster, connect more deeply, and achieve more as a team. Our approach includes spending at least 3 days a week in the office to speed up decision-making, help ASOSers learn from each other, and foster a culture where people can grow, create, and succeed.

Qualifications

• An accounting qualification (preferably ACA or equivalent)
• Solid understanding of IFRS
• A proven ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet tight deadlines
• Advanced skills in Excel
• Strong attention to detail
• Proactiveness in organising own work and taking initiative
• Good communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills

Benefits

• Employee discount (ASOS discount)
• Employee sample sales
• Fixed Annual Payment in addition to your salary as a bonus
• 25 days paid annual leave plus an extra celebration day
• Private medical care scheme
• Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences to thrive and excel

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