This client is a fast-growing UK e-commerce business in the South West.
Job 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.
The Successful Applicant
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.
What's on 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.
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