Commercial Accountant

Rec Financial; Apperknowle; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bonus

Job summary

RECfinancial is partnering with a large Leicester-based FMCG business to appoint a Commercial Accountant. The role is based at Leicester with hybrid working (3 days in the office, 2 days remote).

Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, you’ll focus on commercial activities with no monthly accounting. You’ll partner with senior leadership to drive insight into sales, margin, cost savings and forecasting, helping the business grow profitability.

Qualifications

• Qualified in CIMA, ACCA or ACA.
• Experience in commercial analysis and business partnering.
• Strong stakeholder management with clear communication.
• Proven ability to influence decisions through insight.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leadership to drive insight into sales, margin, costs and forecasting.
• Focus on business partnering to support decision making with analysis and challenge.
• Grow customer spend and pursue new work tendering from an BP perspective.
• Build relationships across the business to guide, convince and challenge where needed.

Skills

Commercial analysis

Business partnering

Forecasting

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification

Job description

RECfinancial is exclusively partnering with a large privately owned Leicester based FMCG business in the appointment of a new Commercial Accountant.

The role will be based at the firm's Leicester site which is commutable from all areas of Leicester / Leicestershire, Nottingham, Derby, Northamptonshire and Coventry / Warwickshire. The role offers hybrid working at 3/2.

Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, this exciting Commercial Accountant role is 100% focused on the businesses commercial activities and has zero exposure to monthly accounting. In this pure business partnering and analytical role responsibilities will include partnering with the senior leadership to drive insight into sales, margin, cost savings and forecasting.

Time spent in the role will predominantly be business partnering, supporting and challenging the business to make better decisions through insight and analysis. You will work with the senior teams to drive margins and profitability, the role will also include working on growing the existing customer spends and new work tendering from an analysis and BP point of view.

The role is an exciting appointment for the business and its best described as no weeks being the same. The business is innovative in its products and does not stand still in its market. They have a significant focus on innovation.

They are keen to hire a candidate who will have started their career in accounting and be qualified in either the CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualification.

Your experience in recent years will be focused around commercial analysis and business partnering and your cv will demonstrate the value that you have added in your recent role. The role is highly visible in the business and would suit a candidate that is able to build relationships across the business and who has the ability to guide, convince and appropriately challenge.

The business is fantastic to work for, both culturally and ethically.

The ideal candidate will be career motivated as they are keen to hire a candidate who can step into a bigger role in the future.

The role has a salary range of between £65,000 and £75,000 plus benefits including a bonus.