Commercial Finance Business Support

Commercial Finance Business Support

Location: Hybrid (mainly working from home)

Contract Type: Permanent

Required Salary: Dependant on experience

The Company

My client is a manufacturing business

My client are looking for someone with great attention to detail, who has a hunger to learn how the business and their customers work, and someone who enjoys variety in their day to day, as you never know what you might be asked next! The role is a nice blend of routine and ad hoc tasks - it has the familiar month end and reporting week, but then alongside that you might be working on financials for a new piece of innovation, preparing a report to help a customer understand their margin, or analysing the impact of the price of cream. Previous commercial finance experience isn t essential.

key responsibilities will include:

• Having a detailed understanding of the underlying monthly performance.
• Investigating variances in customer volumes and profitability on a regular basis.
• Provide input into detailed budget and forecasting process with the Commercial teams in the retail sector, collaborating with the Management Account teams.
• Co-ordinate the monthly reporting and forecasting cycle, as required by the business.
• Be Responsible for consolidation of retail financial data from all systems into accurate and relevant information, necessary for the business to make commercial decisions.
• Challenging and influencing the sales team on customer volume and DB1 assumptions.
• Reviewing the outputs of the account profitability systems and work with the Commercial Controlling Business Partners to identify and integrate improvements to improve accuracy and speed of reporting. Work with the business partners to drive increased value into the customer account.
• Taking ownership of the process for evaluating new business proposals, ensuring accurate inputs and supporting the commercial team through the process.
• Provide cover for the Business Partners at key meetings if required.
• Seeking to identify and implement improvements in the commercial review process, including the monthly demand review, weekly volume analysis.
• Provide key input into the monthly pre-commercial review providing insight into customer performance and challenging the commercial team as to how to improve results.
• Working with the commercial team to identify all commercial opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Providing support to the sales team providing analysis and insight as a result of customer requests.
• Ensure that all documentation is appropriately filed and controlled so that access is given only to those that need it

Key skills & experience

• Essential: Working towards a recognised Accountancy qualification
• Essential: Strong Excel and analytical skills
• Desirable: Proven experience in an FMCG environment
• Systems knowledge (Access, Cognos, SAP).
• Personable team worker
• Analytical problem solver with attention to detail
• Methodical but adaptable to business needs
• Tenacious
• Able to effectively communicate with many different types of people

For further information, please contact Rhian Mountjoy at Seymour John Recruitment Ltd

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