Finance Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings. Through market-leading web and app experiences and a selection of more than 850 brands, as well as own-brand clothing and accessories, ASOS serves 24.5 million customers in 200 markets and in ten languages. We are led by our purpose, driven by our mission and guided by our values. Our purpose is to give you the confidence to be whoever you want to be and our mission is to become the world's number one destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings. Our values are authentic, brave, creative and disciplined.

Location: Mornington Crescent, Greater London House, NW1
Department: Finance
Level: Core
Reports to: Finance Manager

THE ROLE
The role sits within Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and focuses on supporting cost planning and budgeting. Key responsibilities are providing monthly reporting on administrative costs, as well as relevant commentary, and supporting a wide array of stakeholders at different levels of the organisation with insights. This role will also engage with the Financial Accounting Team to agree accounting treatment and month end processes.

THE TEAM
ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings. Through market-leading web and app experiences and a selection of more than 850 brands, as well as own-brand clothing and accessories, ASOS serves 24.5 million customers in 200 markets and in ten languages. We are led by our purpose, driven by our mission and guided by our values. Our purpose is to give you the confidence to be whoever you want to be and our mission is to become the world's number one destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings. Our values are authentic, brave, creative and disciplined.

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 Finance Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

You will be…

• Providing insights and analysis to the FP&A and Senior Leadership team on a monthly basis
• Playing a key part in the preparation of quarterly budgets for your stakeholders, covering costs over £50mil, which guide the Directors’ decisions for the remainder of the year
• Supporting stakeholders with insights and data, creating a story from the numbers that drives decision making
• Delivering projects and initiatives for controlling costs, improving ROI, and driving the bottom line
• Collaborating closely with the wider Finance function and other stakeholders throughout the business
• Preparing ad hoc analyses
• Working in a supportive and engaging team with individual development as a key focus

We’d love to meet someone with…

• High standard of accuracy and ability to work with financial and statistical data
• Ability to be proactive within a fast-paced, dynamic environment, susceptible to change
• Basic Excel skills and computer literate
• Customer focused
• Strong communication skills especially with non-finance colleagues
• Desire to gain a recognised accountancy qualification

What's in it for you...

• Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
• Performance related bonus
• Flex benefits allowance - which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)

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 we're doing it?

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.

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.

There are safe space employee networks and we host a monthly DEI events series to help support and celebrate all of our people. We are constantly listening to our people, evolving, changing and taking a flexible approach to how we make ASOS truly inclusive.