Accounts Receivable Analyst

Company Description

We're ASOS, the online retailer for fashion lovers all around the world.

We exist to give our customers 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 judgement, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Everyone needs some help showing up as their best self. We're Disability Confident Committed - let our Talent team know if you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Job Description

This role sits within the Accounts Receivable team, reporting into the AP Manager – Projects and Transformation 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

The Details

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.

• Ownership of third-party marketing, other revenue and general oversight of AR function

• Working with Wholesale 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 customers and reviewing credit status periodically

• Work with the business to ensure accurate month-end accounting for AR, including posting journals, producing accurate balance sheet reconciliations and managing the clearing accounts

• Producing timely, accurate and insightful reporting and analysis, including 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

• Leading AR process improvements, implementing change and driving efficiency, including automation and enhancing financial controls

• Systems used: Salesforce, D&B, Microsoft Dynamics 365

• Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies

We believe being together in person helps us move faster, connect more deeply, and achieve more as a team. That’s why our approach to working together includes spending at least three days a week in the office. It’s a rhythm that speeds up decision-making, helps ASOSers learn from each other more quickly, and builds the kind of culture where people can grow, create, and succeed.

Qualifications

About you

• Prior 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

BeneFITS’

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• Employee sample sales
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
• Private medical care scheme
• Fixed Annual Payment in addition to your salary each year, it's just an extra thank you from us
• Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences that enable you to thrive and excel in your role