Commercial Accountant
- Recruiter
- Gleeson Recruitment Ltd
- Location
- Thatcham
- Salary
- £40k - 50k per year + 25 days holiday
- Posted
- 24 Feb 2017
- Closes
- 03 Mar 2017
- Ref
- 5279
- Contact
- Jo Townsend
- Job Title
- Finance Analyst
- Category
- Consumer products / FMCG
- Experience Levels
- Part Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Commercial Accountant
With continued business growth, my well established FMCG client based near Newbury are looking for a detail orientated, analytical and commercially minded Commercial Accountant to join their finance team. You will be an excellent communicator and multi-tasker, and be available to offer previous commercial experience to this role.
As the Commercial Accountant you will support the wider finance team in providing financial information to aid the business in decision making with the main focus being commercial performance. You will work closely with the Commercial, New Product Development and Marketing teams. You are likely to be part-qualified, or a qualified accountant, with recent, relevant commercial experience and offer Advanced Excel, ideally to macro level.
Core Duties & Responsibilities:
- Provide targeted and relevant commercial reports aligned to agreed business objectives.
- Manage the production of a detailed commercial forecast and ensure completeness and accuracy
- Provide assistance to the commercial and marketing teams to formulate plans to address trading gaps for accounts and categories
- Lead the development of promotion performance evaluation (Pre and Post)
- Work with the commercial and marketing team in setting targets, both commercial and financial to drive continuous improvement
- Review financial terms (price, trading terms, discounts, JBPs) prior to customer presentation.
- Review proposed pricing and promotional activity prior to customer presentation.
- Responsible for the accuracy of all costing data held within ERP system
- Responsible for the maintenance of the system to ensure production of accurate costings for all new product development
- Responsibility for the upload and maintenance of budgets/projections into sales reporting tools
- Agreeing budgets and plans with commercial team ensuring alignment to five year strategic plan
- Work closely with the Head of Finance to ensure “right first time” data integrity and financial reporting
Business Partner Responsibilities:
- Working with the sales and marketing teams to deliver the Budget and implement the commercial five year strategy
- Focus the commercial team on long term profitability and brand development targets
- Supporting the sales and marketing teams to understand key business drivers
- Proactively engage with the business. Take new ideas/data out to the teams
- Ensure cross functional and business communication to deliver a co-ordinated approach.
- Attendance at key meetings giving support and challenge as appropriate
Key Experience & Skills Required for the role of Commercial Accountant:
- Strong commercial focus and awareness.
- Ability to drive an environment of continuous improvement.
- Good communication skills at all levels of the organisation
- Awareness of the external market place and the way it impacts the business
- Focus on business partnering and challenging the business.
- Decision making and analytical skills
- Proactive approach to working
- Ability to offer insights into the data
It is also essential that you have a car and full driving license, due to the location of our client on the outskirts of Newbury. For more information on the role of Commercial Accountant please contact me directly.