Finance Intern London, England
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.
About the Role
We are recruiting for two Finance Interns which sit within the Commercial Finance Team and work alongside our Financial Analysts to help ASOS deliver on its Financial and Commercial objectives. These positions provide the opportunity for you to gain a broad understanding of the role finance plays in a modern business environment and gain the key skills and experiences you will need to pursue a future career in Finance or related fields.
About the Team
The Commercial Finance team are responsible for short and long term forecasting of all KPIs, and providing insight and analysis to support or challenge business strategies. The team provides the business with detailed analysis on sales, costs, profitability and behavioural trends and is a vital support function to all departments across ASOS.
Within Commercial Finance we also have a dedicated Supply Chain Finance team who work with the Logistics Leadership team to optimise our logistics and delivery networks, ensuring we have a cost-effective and high performing service to our customers across every global region.
What You’ll be Doing
- Extracting & interpreting data to measure the success of the business
- Playing a key part in planning & delivering monthly actuals and reforecasting; including setting up monthly meetings, posting accruals and prepayments, analysing variances between actuals and forecasts & maintaining all forecast & cost schedules
- Supporting the Finance team on current initiatives
- Producing weekly and monthly reporting in a timely and accurate manner and updating the Finance Manager on key highlights and trends
- Any other ad hoc analysis
- Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.
Who We’d Like to Meet
- A high standard of accuracy with financial and statistical data
- Commercially aware and able to overcome complex challenges
- An ability to be proactive within a fast-paced, dynamic environment susceptible to change
- Computer literate, with experience using tools for data analysis including Excel
- Strong communication skills with a range of stakeholders.
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.
