Commercial Accountant

Job summary

Burts are looking for a Commercial Accountant to join our busy Finance team for a fast-paced FMCG Company. The individual will be reporting to the Finance Director, and based at either our Plymouth or Leicester office. This job is suitable for job share.

Responsibilities Include:

Supporting Finance Director and Commercial Director with strategic projects and ad hoc requests

Pricing and price list management:

• Building new structure that allows invoicing to be at GSV not GGSV
• Maintain price, price change files and documentation (Due Diligence)

Trade Spend:

• Manage customer trade spend and hold necessary reviews with account managers to ensure invoicing is in line with agreed terms
• Produce the monthly customer funding accruals for the MI
• Promotional analysis – Pre and Post activity

Margin Analysis:

• Produce robust monthly report – Rolling 12 months reporting and analysis of low or negative margin

Sales Reporting:

• Monthly Report
• Forecast Update
• EPOS Data
• Suit of reports to be built as the business evolve

Sales Forecasting Validation:

• Act as a control function to validate forecast for MI

Marketing Spend:

• Continue to support Finance with monthly Budget and forecast
• Analysis of impact of marketing activity, measure effectiveness, ROI

Account Plans:

• Produce costings for NPD/EPD for the business
• Produce account plans for new costings and review

Post Launch Reviews:

• New product- performance 3, 6 & 12-month review
• New Account opening- performance 3, 6 & 12-month review

Customer Document Management (Due Diligence):

• Build a comprehensive source of account data, terms and agreements

Commercial “Direction of Travel”:

• Working to support the commercial team have access to better data, analysis, view of information to allow them to be better and go faster

Behaviours:

• A positive attitude
• A desire to learn
• A desire to progress
• A Team player

Company Standards:

• Follow appropriate legislation and regulations, codes of practice and policies and procedures.
• Work within the requirements of the Company’s Health and Safety Policy, performance standards and safe systems of work
• Undertake all duties appropriate to the post as required