Commercial Finance Manager

Job Description

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 exists to improve ASOS’s commercial performance through decisive financial leadership, actionable insights, and challenge that drives better decisions across Product, Supply Chain, and Customer functions. Whether that be trading and delivering to one of many countries ASOS operates in, to helping to influence our incremental revenue streams such as Partner Fulfils or even analysis to find further opportunities in our Operations Base.

You will partner the senior leadership, targeting improved Variable Contribution through targeted commercial interventions. You will influence Directors to take financially sound decisions, backed by high quality insight alongside holding the business areas to account for OKRs, budget adherence, and commercial outcomes

You will help to build capability in analysts and FMs through coaching on modelling, insight creation, and commercial storytelling. Role modelling cross functional collaboration and ensure your team ‘joins the dots’ across the business

The Details

• Acting as a strategic partner—challenging assumptions, shaping decisions, and ensuring financial implications are understood, quantified, and actioned
• Building a strong understanding of the profit model to drive Commercial decisions to drive an overall improvement in Variable Contribution
• Updating senior management on relevant P&L, Cash and Metric performance, providing insightful analysis on business division outlooks
• Leading monthly business reviews in to ensure appropriate tracking of performance, with value-add analysis to help deep dive problem areas
• Working closely with the Financial Accounting and FP&A teams to manage month end and the overall story of the drivers of performance
• Drive proactive risk/opportunity management and ensure clear visibility of the commercial trade‑offs
• Conduct scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis for new strategies, cost initiatives, and revenue opportunities

Qualifications

About you

• ACA/CIMA/ACCA Qualified
• Advanced Excel Modelling, with ability to manipulate and interpret large data sets
• Strong P&L, Cashflow and Profitability Understanding
• Strong communication and the capability to prioritise and work in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and leadership skills
• Excellent presentational skills and confident presenting to senior management
• SQL, PowerBI, Databricks Experience is desirable

Additional Information

BeneFITS’

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• Employee sample sales
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private medical care scheme
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
• Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences that enable you to thrive and excel in your role

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