Head of Finance - Customer & Channels 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
As a Head of Finance at ASOS you will have responsibility for helping to deliver the financial and business plans. You will be partnering with the business and other finance teams to deliver accurate budgets, forecasts and reporting. You will be a fundamental part of the wider finance team and help contribute to the success of both finance and ASOS.
About the Team
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 Head of Finance – Customer and Channels.
What You’ll be Doing
- Working with the ASOS Media Group Director, Wholesale Director and Head of Partner Fulfils on building out multiple fast-growing areas of the business and setting up the business models for success.
- Supporting delivery of, and managing the P&Ls for the three business units.
- Working with the Senior Customer Director on setting and delivering the Customer strategy and forming part of the Customer Senior Leadership Team.
- Working cross functionally to evaluate marketing spend by channel including true sales and customer incrementality, to inform multi-territory marketing spend strategy.
- Key member of the Finance Leadership Team, driving people and engagement initiatives to help support the growth and capabilities of the finance function.
- Managing and developing a team of 5 ranging in experience from Analyst to Manager.
- Tracking and challenging the business on any tasks/initiatives owned by the Customer and Channel teams.
- Driving KPI diligence and performance across the agreed customer metrics, enhancing our reporting to drive improved understanding throughout the business of our customer behaviour and metrics.
- Liaising with other Finance teams, to ensure a collaborative approach towards business planning and forecasting
- Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.
Who We’d Like to Meet
- Experience in a large established and/or fast growing FMCG/Retail/eCommerce business, across multiple Finance disciplines
- Excellent leadership skills, within Finance and business wide
- Strong communication and relationship building, with the ability to influence senior business stakeholders confidently
- Attention to detail, and ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations from complex business dynamics
- Bias for process improvement and process discipline to deliver efficiency and improved performance
- ACA/CIMA/ACCA Qualified – extensive experience post qualification
- Ability to prioritise work for themselves and their team in a fast-paced 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
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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.
