Corporate Reporting Accountant

Competitive salary plus benefits.

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 an Accountant within our Controllership team, you will combine technical accounting with coaching, communication, influencing, leadership and prioritisation skills to ensure that we maintain a strong control environment and support Asda in delivering our financial plan.

The Ins and Outs:

• As an Accountant within the Controllership team, you will act as Financial Controller for part of the Asda business, you will manage the 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 the Asda business, and lead cross functional projects to enhance the control environment,
• Using the large volumes of data available to continually refine and improve our understanding of the numbers and evolve financial control,
• Working with the business partners and Commercial Finance teams on new business initiatives to ensure the financial reporting impact is understood and financial controls are robust,
• Review of month-end balance sheet reconciliations,
• Delivery of process improvement within the team, looking for opportunities to make processes more efficient

About you

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified accountant,
• Confidence liaising with people at all levels,
• Able to quickly prioritise and make decisions,
• Commitment to developing and stretching your own skills,
• Great analytical and problem-solving skills,
• Able to think laterally and challenge the status quo.
• Experience using digital tools such as Alteryx and Tableau would be advantageous but not essential

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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

• 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