Asda • Leeds LS11 5AD

Trading accounts manager

About this role

Job Title

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

About the role

Providing customers with the best products at the best prices, we believe in seeing challenges where others see problems – our culture is resilient, energetic and exceptionally fast-paced. If you think you’ve got the skills and personality to succeed in this environment, consider joining us in this key Finance role.

In this role, you’ll be pivotal to ensuring that our corporate and business strategies are supported by the very best financial accounting and control processes – and that these processes continually maximise our profitability and efficiency.

As a Finance Manager within our Financial Control team, you will combine technical accounting with coaching, communication, influencing, leadership and prioritisation skills to ensure that we maintain a strong control environment over one of our key Trading areas, and help the Traders/Buyers to deliver their financial plan (Sales & GP).

The Ins and Outs

As Financial Controller for one of our key Trading areas you would manage accurate and timely production of financial information for internal/external reporting, including compliance with group accounting policies and procedures and managing the related financial control environment
Reviewing financial performance on a monthly basis with Commercial Finance customers including clear articulation of variances to plan/forecast
Maintaining an awareness of risk management issues across a key Trading area, and lead cross functional projects to enhance the control environment
Advising the Traders/Buyers and Commercial Finance teams on the risk and financial control implications of new business initiatives
Review of month-end balance sheet reconciliations
Delivery through others – managing a team of 1 qualified accountant and 1 trainee accountant, a key part of the role is coaching and developing these colleagues, as well as managing the resources within the team to deliver team priorities
Delivery of process improvement within the team, looking for opportunities to make processes more efficient

What you’ll need

Qualified Accountant with post qualification experience (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
Strong technical accounting background
Leadership experience, in particular coaching and developing others
Confidence liaising with people at all levels
Great analytical skills and a strong communicator
Able to quickly prioritise and make decisions
Able to think laterally and challenge the status quo

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including

Discretionary company bonus
Company pension up to 7% matched
Company Car allowance of £5,700
15% colleague discount in store and online
Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves