Job 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.
This role sits within the Financial Accounting team, reporting into the Finance Manager – Stock Lifecycle. 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 AR Analyst.
What You’ll be Doing
- Ownership of third-party marketing, other revenue and general oversight of AR function
- Working with ASOS Media Group (AMG) and other teams to collect all information needed to raise invoices on a timely basis
- Credit control and debt collection, ensuring aged debt is kept to minimum
- Performing credit checks when setting up new AMG and other customers and reviewing credit status periodically
- Handling queries from stakeholders, escalating when necessary
- Work with the business to ensure accurate month-end accounting for AR, including calculating and posting accrued and deferred income journals, producing accurate balance sheet reconciliations and managing the clearing accounts
- Producing timely, accurate and insightful reporting and analysis, including the monthly control pack and weekly customer ageing reports
- Working with the wider AR team to calculate and journal bad debt provision at half-year and year-end reporting periods
- Understanding the business processes, including related risks and controls
- Assisting with testing system changes when required
- Providing supporting documentation for the external audit
- Leading AR process improvements, implementing change and driving efficiency, including automation and enhancing financial controls
- Supporting the AR assistant on training and escalations
- Systems used: Salesforce, D&B, Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies
Who We’d Like to Meet
- Experience in accounts receivable and credit control
- Ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet tight deadlines
- Good excel skills and analytical skills
- A high standard of accuracy with financial and statistical data
- Commercial awareness
- Good communication/ interpersonal and influencing skills
- The ability to be proactive within a fast-paced and dynamic environment
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 day for your birthday
- 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
Our Commitments
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 are we doing it?
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.
We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people - find out more here.
Do you need any reasonable adjustments? Our recruitment team will be happy to support you in the best way possible if you feel comfortable raising this. It’s also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.
If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.