ALS Finance Reporting Analyst

Job Title

ALS Finance Reporting Analyst

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category

Financial Planning and Analysis

Closing Date

20 January 2025

“Everything about Asda”

We are a values-led organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone’s input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

“Everything you’ll love”

• Hybrid and flexible working – everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda has it on point.
• Discretionary bonus – Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts.
• Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit – Looking forward to the future.
• 25 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.
• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares about the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people.
• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year.
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.
• Free city centre parking – you can also use it outside working hours.

Plus, much more!

“That’s more like it”

Find your role

You will be working in the ALS Finance team and supporting the Asda Logistics Services (ALS) function to identify, build and deliver financial reporting, insight and analysis to the ALS Finance team and ALS business leaders.

Your role

• Improve the ALS function's understanding of performance by creating, measuring, & providing KPIs with insight that allow for continuous improvement.
• Collation of weekly scorecard for senior leadership involving KPIs, costs and liaising with Finance Managers across the logistics network to understand anomalies.
• Collate weekly forecast, profitability by client and regular review of client risk.
• Work in an agile way, retaining the ability to respond to ‘in the moment’ opportunities.
• Work with stakeholders and end users to resolve any process issues and implement solutions.
• Proactively communicate known challenges and manage expectations.

Let's find out about you

• You will have an aptitude for working with numbers and large data sets, be an advanced user of MS Excel.
• You will be analytical and have a curious mindset to develop and improve current systems and ways of working.
• You will have strong verbal and written communication skills.
• You will be a team player with the ability to build rapport with both external stakeholders and colleagues.
• You will be a proactive self-starter with a positive growth mindset who enjoys working at pace.
• Comfortable participating in discussions to influence others.

Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to choose where you’ll be the most effective.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

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.