Commercial Accountant
7 days ago
Chippenham
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. \n Client Details \n This client is a fast-growing UK e-commerce business in the South West. \n Description \n\n • Support the annual budgeting and forecasting process, working closely with departmental managers to develop robust financial plans.\n, • Monitor performance against budgets and forecasts, providing variance analysis and identifying key risks, opportunities and corrective actions.\n, • Support cash-flow forecasting and working capital analysis, ensuring forecasts accurately reflect expected business performance.\n, • Provide insightful financial analysis to support operational and strategic decision-making across the business.\n, • Analyse key costs, margins and profitability, identifying opportunities to reduce costs, improve efficiency and strengthen commercial performance.\n, • Support pricing and profitability analysis, including reviewing the full product cost base, realised margins and areas of margin erosion.\n, • Provide analysis around capital investment, stock purchasing and financing decisions, helping optimise stock levels and cash utilisation.\n, • Prepare accurate and timely management reporting, highlighting key trends, performance drivers, risks and opportunities for senior management.\n, • Play a key Finance role in the ERP implementation, supporting UAT, data migration, reconciliation, training and ongoing system/process improvements.\n, • Work collaboratively across Finance and the wider business, providing cross-functional support, financial insight and process improvements to strengthen overall Finance capability.\n\n Profile \n A successful Commercial Accountant should have: \n\n • Qualified ACCA or CIMA, or qualified by experience.\n, • Strong management accounting experience, including budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.\n, • Commercially minded, with the ability to turn financial data into clear, practical insight.\n, • Confident managing stakeholders across different departments and comfortable constructively challenging where needed.\n, • Personable and approachable, with strong communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.\n, • Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.\n, • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment and managing competing priorities.\n, • Proactive and improvement-focused, with an interest in systems, processes and automation.\n, • Able to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.\n, • Collaborative, adaptable and willing to support the wider Finance team when required.\n\n Job Offer \n\n • Salary ranging from £55,000 to £60,000, dependent on the level of experience.\n, • Permanent position within the FMCG industry.\n, • Additional benefits to be confirmed.\n