Commercial Accountant - Clothing

Morrisons; Coalville; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and fast-paced company as a Commercial Finance Business Partner, where your analytical skills will drive impactful decisions. This role offers the chance to work closely with commercial teams, translating complex data into actionable insights. You'll support budget building, analyze financial performance, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. With a generous holiday entitlement and a flexible working week, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a thriving business while enjoying excellent benefits. If you have a curious mindset and a passion for data, we’d love to meet you!

Benefits

15% colleague discount

Generous holiday entitlement

4.5 day working week

Company pension contributions

Perks with over 850 retailers

Free parking onsite

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience in analyzing commercial data to drive strategic decisions.
• Strong understanding of financial metrics and performance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Analyze market data to generate insights for strategic decisions.
• Build relationships with stakeholders to ensure effective use of insights.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Microsoft Excel

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Budgeting

Curiosity

Education

CIMA qualification

ACA qualification

ACCA qualification

AAT qualification

Tools

Google Sheets

Financial reporting tools

Job description

We are looking for a commercially savvy and curious Commercial Finance Business Partner to join our non-foods business areas. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys digging into data to uncover insights, turning questions and ideas into actionable recommendations. You will work closely with commercial stakeholders, including buyers and traders, to challenge assumptions, offer fresh perspectives, and drive data-led decision-making.
You'll be responsible for:

• Analyse commercial and market data to generate insights that drive strategic decisions. Including identifying & highlighting financial risk and opportunities for departments to that managers across the business can respond to them on a timely basis by understanding the environment of the area in which you work and implications of changes.

• Translate business questions into structured analysis and present findings in a clear and actionable way.

• Identify & develop reports, dashboards, and models to support decision-making
• Continually focusing on simplifying and improving processes.

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the commercial team, ensuring insights are understood and used effectively. Proactively challenge existing ways of thinking, offering alternative views supported by data.

• Support building budgets for key financial metrics – understand, analyse and communicate them. Provide variance analysis and trending techniques to measure performance against budget, forecasts and business cases.

• Review periodic forecasts to enable managers across the business to understand current trends / position.

• Maintain periodic stock ledgers, balance sheets, financial control. Apply Group accounting policies.

• Support a continuous improvement culture focusing on service, costs, cash flow by contributing in joint problem solving. Generate your own ideas for improvement and drive through to delivery.

About you

• Strong commercial acumen with an ability to understand and interpret business performance.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills – comfortable engaging, influencing, and challenging commercial teams with an ability to articulate financial data in a clear and transparent way.

• Curious mindset with a passion for using data to uncover insights and tell a story.

• Experience in working with large datasets and translating them into meaningful recommendations.

• Excellent Microsoft Excel or Google sheets skills

• Previous experience of supporting the delivery of finance plans and budgets

• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple projects.

• A professional qualification of CIMA, ACA, ACCA, AAT or equivalent.

About us

Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…

Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
• Generous holiday entitlement
• 4 and a half day working week with flexible working hours
• Company pension contributions
• Perks with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave