Commercial Accountant

As a Commercial Accountant, you'll play a key role in managing financial processes and contributing to strategic decision-making. Your day-to-day will involve analysing financial data, preparing reports, and ensuring the business runs smoothly through sound financial management.

Client Details

This client is a fast-growing UK e-commerce business in the South West.

Description

Support the annual budgeting and forecasting process, working closely with departmental managers to develop robust financial plans.

Monitor performance against budgets and forecasts, providing variance analysis and identifying key risks, opportunities and corrective actions.

Support cash-flow forecasting and working capital analysis, ensuring forecasts accurately reflect expected business performance.

Provide insightful financial analysis to support operational and strategic decision-making across the business.

Analyse key costs, margins and profitability, identifying opportunities to reduce costs, improve efficiency and strengthen commercial performance.

Support pricing and profitability analysis, including reviewing the full product cost base, realised margins and areas of margin erosion.

Provide analysis around capital investment, stock purchasing and financing decisions, helping optimise stock levels and cash utilisation.

Prepare accurate and timely management reporting, highlighting key trends, performance drivers, risks and opportunities for senior management.

Play a key Finance role in the ERP implementation, supporting UAT, data migration, reconciliation, training and ongoing system/process improvements.

Work collaboratively across Finance and the wider business, providing cross-functional support, financial insight and process improvements to strengthen overall Finance capability.

Profile

A successful Commercial Accountant should have

Qualified ACCA or CIMA, or qualified by experience.

Strong management accounting experience, including budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.

Commercially minded, with the ability to turn financial data into clear, practical insight.

Confident managing stakeholders across different departments and comfortable constructively challenging where needed.

Personable and approachable, with strong communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.

Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment and managing competing priorities.

Proactive and improvement-focused, with an interest in systems, processes and automation.

Able to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.

Collaborative, adaptable and willing to support the wider Finance team when required.

Job Offer

Salary ranging from £55,000 to £60,000, dependent on the level of experience.

Permanent position within the FMCG industry.

Additional benefits to be confirmed.