Head of Financial Accounting and Change (12 month contract) at ASOS
London, United Kingdom
Job Descrption
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 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
As Head of Finance, you'll have responsibility for managing all accounting transactions and postings, and ensuring we maintain effective controls and processes adhering to our accounting policies. Technical capability, high standards of delivery and driving efficiencies are imperative for success. This role also supports the delivery of business change projects into the accounting function, working closely with the Tech and Business teams to ensure stakeholder engagement, resource management and input/approval of project designs, plans and implementations impacting Finance.
What you'll be doing:
Financial Accounting
Ensuring completeness and accuracy of financial postings, both from systems reconciliation and judgments perspective – owning all actuals transaction processing
Ensuring the implementation of our accounting is in line with accounting policies owned by the Head of Group Reporting
Managing Balance Sheet Risks and Opportunities aligned with FP&A process
Delivering Best-in-class Balance Sheet controls, completion and review
Preparing relevant Accounting papers, directly liasing with the Head of Group Reporting
Ensuring the Accounting team review system feed checks accurately and consistently, working with Tech and the business to deliver root cause analysis and correction
Owning the Accounting relationship with Commercial Finance and FP&A to ensure appropriate judgments and accounting adjustments are made on a monthly basis
Drive continuous improvements in controls and processes
Business Change
Responsible for the practical accounting implementation of any new business projects – this ranges from:
Understanding any new accounting treatment
Ensuring appropriate finance scope & system design
Providing clear accounting and reporting requirements
Sign off on testing and data validation
Ensuring adequate Balance Sheet controls and processes for new areas
Reviewing projects post implementation and taking forward learnings
Utilise experience and knowledge, to ensure pragmatic and beneficial solutions to project implementation are found to support ASOS’ growth and strategic ambitions
Represent Finance at key business change programme/project senior governance meetings, such as Steering Groups, and ensure risks and issues are appropriately raised and remediated with ASOS’ best interests at centre of mind
Ownership of internal Finance Change prioritisation process working across Finance and Tech to deliver solutions to improve finance efficiency in day to day tasks
General
Responsible for leading and developing a team of 3 managers and a total team of 15
Key member of the Finance Leadership Team (FLT)
Work closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to deliver the Finance vision/strategy and ensure continued engagement, talent planning and succession within the wider team
Supporting our culture by championing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.
Qualifications
We’d love to meet, someone with…
ACA/CIMA/ACCA Qualified – extensive experience post qualification with a technical and process background
Self-motivated, proactive and results-focused
Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity – a can do attitude
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships with people at all levels
Energy, drive, and resilience, able to work in a fast paced environment and answer quickly to business needs
Meticulous attention to detail, superb organization skills, and strong sense of ownership
Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations from complex business dynamics
Bias for process improvement and process discipline to deliver efficiency and improved performance
Ability to deal with highly demanding and complex delivery landscape
Experience with technical and commercial accounting considerations alongside ability to recognise where specialist areas will need to be consulted – e.g. taxation, treasury, legal, CoSec and other similar areas
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
Your CV has been submitted successfully.
Complete form below to directly Send your CV / Linkedin Profile to Head of Financial Accounting and Change (12 month contract) at ASOS.
@
You will receive all responses from employer on this email
Example: Application for the post of 'Accountant'
Example: Introduce your self and give purpose of your application
*All fields are mandatory.
Loading...
ASOS 94 jobs found
Senior Security Analyst (GRC) at ASOS
London, United Kingdom
Head of Financial Accounting and Change (12 month contract) at ASOS
London, United Kingdom
Senior Threat & Vulnerability Analyst at ASOS
London, United Kingdom
Assistant Buyer at ASOS
London, United Kingdom
Delivery Solutions Analyst at ASOS
London, United Kingdom
Martech Executive at ASOS
London, United Kingdom
Production Assistant - 12 month FTC at ASOS
London, United Kingdom
Social Content Lead at ASOS
London, United Kingdom
Senior Insight Analyst - Marketing at ASOS
London, United Kingdom
Senior Partnerships Producer - Maternity Cover at ASOS