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Commercial Accountant

Chippenham Permanent £55,000 - £60,000 per year View Job Description
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.
  • Commercial Accountant
  • Excellent Growth

About Our Client

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.
Contact
Esmae Talbot-Lewis
Quote job ref
JN-102026-7121723
Phone number
+441179065133

Job summary

Job function
Accounting
Subsector
Management Accountant
Sector
Business Services
Where
Chippenham
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Esmae Talbot-Lewis
Consultant phone
+441179065133
Job reference
JN-102026-7121723