Accounts Payable Assistant - Stock

Here at ASOS, working in Accounts Payable means working collaboratively with the business to deliver our mission. The Accounts Payable Assistants plays a key role within the Finance department. 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: - 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 - Supporting our culture by championing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies. 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! The Details: Invoicing: - Invoice Processing: Matching receipted POs with supplier invoices. - Ensuring vendors follow ASOS Invoice policy - Review and clearing down of Unapproved Invoices Payments: - Preparation of weekly multi-currency payment runs. - Ensuring prompt payment for all suppliers: Aim for 100% Paid on Time. Stakeholder Management: - Maintaining and cultivating both internal and external stakeholder relationships Liabilities: - Review any accounts with debit balances, requesting refunds where appropriate via email and telephone calls. - Review and investigate unallocated payments. Reconciliations: - Reconciliations for key supplier accounts on a regular rotational basis, to ensure accounts are both up to date and management have visibility of any pending issues. - Review and clear aged Goods Received not Invoiced (GRNI). Process Optimisation: - Ensuring Master Data is up to date and any changes are requested following company fraud policy - Archiving all inactive accounts - Investigating vendors with a low POT% and collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders to increase Paid on Time % - Investigating vendors with a low auto-match rate and collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders to increase auto-match rate Strategic influence: - The ability to influence immediate internal stakeholders to generate positive outcomes General Technical Expertise: - Business partnering experience - Intermediate skills in Excel - An ability to determine insightful observations from detail for management attention - A proven ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet tight deadlines – and an ability to take initiative Communication & Relationship Skills - Excellent written and oral communication skills - Strong relationship building skills - The ability to collaborate and work in a fast-paced environment, adapting to rapid change 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 3 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. About You: - Experience on a global scale (desirable) dealing with Purchase orders and high volume invoicing ideally within retail sector - Excellent analytical and problem solving skills - Proficient in ERP systems and accounting software - Experience using Dynamics 365 is desirable - Ability to adapt to change and drive process improvement initiatives - Works well under pressure - Can-do positive attitude and a team player