Overview

Job Title: Finance Operations Manager

Location: Asda House

Employment Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits

Category: Accounting

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.

Closing Date: 13 October 2025

What you will do

In this role, you will 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.

Responsibilities

• Combining technical accounting with coaching, communication, influencing, leadership and prioritisation skills to ensure that we produce timely and accurate financial information
• Collaborating with and challenging internal stakeholders to review and understand monthly financial performance
• Presenting your area’s financial performance to the Group Financial Controller and Senior Managers within the Controllership department, clearly articulating variances to plan/forecast
• Communicating regularly with your Commercial Finance business partners to ensure accurate forecasting and changes to processes/controls for new business initiatives are implemented in a timely and controlled manner
• Leading a small team of part-qualified and qualified accountants, developing their technical knowledge and professional behaviours
• Embracing change in a fast-paced environment, including migrations to different systems, ensuring the team and their output are continuously improving
• Reviewing high-risk balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring the team investigate reconciling items in a timely and appropriate manner

Qualifications

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
• Strong communication skills, including confidence presenting to and liaising with people at all levels of the business
• Ability to lead and develop a small team with a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Confidence to take ownership, proactively and quickly prioritising
• Capability to make measured decisions in a timely manner
• Commitment to developing and stretching your own and others’ skills
• Great analytical and problem-solving skills, including an eye for detail
• Ability to think laterally and challenge the status quo
• An audit background or experience within a fast-paced corporate business is preferred
• Experience using digital tools such as Power BI or SQL is advantageous

Everything you\'ll love

Asda has a hybrid working policy with a minimum of 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Some roles may require additional 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 Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline
• Discounts across a range of services and activities
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks
• Excellent parental leave policies including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and fertility treatment support

We want all colleagues 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.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Job function

Accounting/Auditing and Finance

Industries

Retail

Leeds, England, United Kingdom