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Finance Manager, Inventory
Finance Manager – Financial Controls – Trading Accounts
Employment Type: Full time Contract Type: Fixed Term Hours Per Week: 37.5 Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits Location: Asda House Category: Accounting Closing Date: 2 July 2026
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 deliver their financial plan (Sales & GP).
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Reporting & Control:
- Manage accurate and timely production of financial information for internal/external reporting, complying with group accounting policies and procedures
- Maintain a strong financial control environment
- Review financial performance on a monthly basis for Commercial Finance customers, including clear articulation of variances to plan/forecast
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Risk Management & Process Improvement:
- Must have an awareness of risk management issues across a key Trading area, and lead cross-functional projects to enhance the control environment
- Advise Traders/Buyers and Commercial Finance teams on the risk and financial control implications of new business initiatives
- Review month-end balance sheet reconciliations
- Drive process improvement within the team
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Team Leadership & Coaching:
- Manage a team comprising 1 qualified accountant and 1 trainee accountant
- Focus on coaching, developing, and empowering team members
- Allocate and manage team resources to deliver priorities effectively
Requirements
To excel in this role, you should have:
- Qualified Accountant with post-qualification experience (e.g., ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
- A strong technical accounting background
- Leadership experience, including coaching and developing others
- Confidence in liaising with people at all levels
- Strong analytical skills and clear communication
- Ability to quickly prioritise and make informed decisions
- Analytical thinking and problem-solving, with the ability to challenge the status quo
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Hybrid Working & Benefits
To balance collaboration and flexibility, Asda offers a hybrid working model with a minimum of 3 days per week based at one of our Home Offices. Additional work days in the office may be required for supplier meetings, stores, or depots.
Why Join Us?
This role comes with 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:
- 24/7 Virtual GP
- Counselling
- Health and dental cash plans
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounts on various services and activities (e.g., airport parking, theme parks, cinemas)
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – ensuring all colleagues feel included and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including:
- Maternity & adoption leave
- Paternity leave
- Shared parental leave
- Neonatal care leave
- Support for fertility treatments
- Pride policies – encouraging colleagues to bring their authentic selves to work.
Our Vision & Future
Asda is reimagining retail, constantly evolving to create new career opportunities. With a large, dynamic business, there are countless career paths beyond traditional roles.
Proud to be Asda and proud to be yourself. 🚀
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