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Commercial Operations ExecFinance
We’re looking for a highly organised and detail-focused Commercial & Finance Operations Executive to join our team at Asda House in Leeds.
In this role, you’ll play a key part in supporting multiple profit & loss accounts, helping to keep our financial operations running smoothly and efficiently. From managing purchase orders and invoices to working closely with suppliers and internal teams, you’ll be at the centre of day-to-day commercial and finance activity.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working with numbers, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is keen to build strong stakeholder relationships.
What You’ll Be Doing
Financial Administration & Purchase Orders
- Raise and manage purchase orders (POs) in SAP, ensuring accuracy and compliance
- Track spend against budgets and highlight opportunities to improve efficiency
- Maintain clear and accurate financial records for reporting and audit
P&L Support
- Provide admin support across four P&L accounts
- Assist with budget tracking, cost allocation, and reconciliations
- Support the preparation of financial reports and management information
Invoices & Revenue
- Support invoice creation and ensure revenue is recorded correctly
- Monitor invoice progress and resolve any discrepancies
- Ensure all financial transactions are processed on time
Supplier & Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with suppliers, agencies, and internal teams
- Ensure supplier invoices are processed and paid promptly
- Investigate and resolve invoice queries to avoid delays
- Monitor aged debt and follow up outstanding items
Process Improvement
- Help coordinate processes with agencies and media partners
- Identify ways to improve efficiency and streamline workflows
- Support continuous improvement and best practice ways of working
- Ensure compliance with company policies and financial controls
What We're Looking For
- Experience in an administrative, finance, or commercial support role
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Confident working with financial systems (SAP experience is a plus)
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Good Excel skills and confident using Microsoft Office
- A proactive approach to problem solving
- Understanding of purchase orders, invoicing, and accounts payable processes
- Experience working with agencies, media providers, or commercial suppliers (desirable)
Key Skills
- Financial administration
- Organisation and planning
- Stakeholder management
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Continuous improvement
- Communication and collaboration
- Accountability and ownership
Why Join Asda?
At Asda, you’ll be part of a collaborative and supportive team where your work really makes an impact. We’ll give you the opportunity to develop your skills, take ownership of your work, and grow your career in a fast-paced commercial environment.
If you’re organised, proactive, and ready to make a difference we’d love to hear from you.
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
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Why Asda?
We’re a really values-led organisation. Our mission means we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively with each other, valuing everyone’s input. We get on with things, we make them happen. As so many people across the UK rely on us, we have to.
Our Creating Change for Better programme tackles the major challenges facing our business and society today and guides our efforts on where we can make the biggest difference by reducing our environmental footprint, creating healthier products and supporting our communities.
Big businesses like ours offer big opportunities. With more than 1,000 stores across the UK, from superstores and Asda Living to petrol stations, as well as depots and Express stores. £60m+ in revenue taken every day. We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles 2 million transactions a month. And 75% of the UK shop in Asda every year.
Rewards and Recognition
Free remote GP service
Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.
Pension
Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda.
Free physiotherapy consultations
Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.
Colleague discounts
15% off at our stores - get discounts on groceries and George all year round.
Car cash allowance
Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme*.
(*Conditions apply)
Mortgage advice
Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers.
Confidential support helpline
Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.
Cycle to work
Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.
Financial support
Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.
Free eye tests
Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.
Bonus
Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions.
Cancer support
Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.
Paid time off
From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.
Mental health support
Access free mental health support for you and your family.
Support and advice with care
If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.
Hybrid working
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. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots
Save money on every day spends
Access to hundreds of high-street discounted Vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more
Setting your loved ones up for the future
As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.
Guaranteed contracted hours
All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.
Holiday buying
Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).
Everything that makes us different, makes us Asda
Our colleague-led inclusion networks, including our DisAbility, Race & Ethnicity, Women at Asda, LGBTQIA+, and our Wellbeing Network, are all about giving our colleagues a space to share their stories, experiences, and perspective. Supported by our dedicated Executive Ambassadors and led by our ten passionate co-chairs, our Networks help us make changes that make life better for every colleague.
Transforming communities and changing lives
Our stores, distribution centres, and head offices work in local communities across the UK – and we want to be a real part of making a difference for them. From our amazing 400 Community Champions to our charity, The Asda Foundation, we’ve got loads of ways to help local groups and charities. Our outreach programmes, grants, and Community Champions are all about listening to our communities’ needs – to shape projects and initiatives that will make a real impact for local people.
Our commitment to the Armed Forces
Here at Asda, we’re dedicated to helping the Armed Forces rediscover their everything after service. We guarantee interviews for people who have left service and meet the minimum criteria for a role, provide leave for reservists’ training, support for cadet training, and employment opportunities for their partners. And that’s why we have over a thousand new colleagues from the Armed Forces Service Leaver Community join us every year.
Asda Finance Wellbeing Group
Here in Asda Finance we’re making sure we don’t just ‘talk the talk’ but ‘walk the walk’ – by building a strong wellbeing and ED&I offering,
Founded in 2020, the Asda Finance Wellbeing group was initially all about supporting colleagues through the pandemic but, since then, it’s grown into a strong wellbeing agenda that spans an annual calendar of campaigns and events. All to make sure we’re keeping the conversation going on all aspects of wellbeing, physical, social, financial and emotional.
Our team runs a range of events, from team meeting downloads, written tips and information, to in person workshops and external speakers. We also regularly run Wellbeing surveys to touch base with how our colleagues are feeling. And we take those thoughts and feelings into our regular wellbeing-focused meetings, so we can discuss any issues. And take action to better support our colleagues.
Finance roles
Analysing problems and proposing innovative solutions, our Finance teams make everything add up with in-depth industry knowledge, and bring projects that make a real impact across the business.
Our Finance Awards
‘The Grocer’ recently awarded us 2023 Online Supermarket of the year, recognising the achievement and engagement of over 10,000 ecommerce colleagues and the Online Finance team. We also won the Yorkshire and the Humber Accountancy Awards 2024 Best Employer of the Year.
Not only have we been recognised by external bodies, we’ve had great feedback from our external business stakeholders too.
“Having worked with Asda for many years in my role, I have always been impressed with the quality of their Finance Colleagues and how engaged they are in creating value for both Asda and their Partners."
Learning and Development
Here in Asda Finance, we drive colleague development through everything we do. Thanks to our active, colleague-led Learning and Development group, we have a constant stream of engaging content all about helping our colleagues grow, from monthly newsletters, summer holiday reading lists, to subject matter expert insight sessions and quarterly development days. We even head to off-site sessions together, where we focus on developing skills we can take into our everyday work.
Work where it works
Here at Asda, we think that the best way to work is to do it where it works best. That’s why all of our teams who are able to work from home, work with each other to figure out a pattern that works for you all, and the business needs. So you can get the most out of work, whether that’s at home, the office, or both.