We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist - Commercial Management Accountant to join our Finance Team.
As a Specialist - Management Accountant your role is to business partner the Procurement teams and provide insight and guidance to aid them to deliver the business plan, holding them to account in a supportive manner whilst ensuring the aims of the business are met.
Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5pm - Hybrid working is also available (2 days per week from home)
Please note that this is a Fixed Term Contract which will end in July 2025
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Business partnering the buyers for Fruit to support decision making and helping them understand the financial impact of those decisions. Ownership of weekly Commercial meetings to ensure a proactive approach to challenges that may arise
- Providing decision support and financial insight into trends and prior performance to help inform future decisions
- Ownership of the weekly financial MI for your area with support from the Assistant Management Accountant(s) to provide a full and consistent analysis of the prior period
- Forecasting future P&L risks and opportunities in the medium to long term along with understanding from your business partners what impacts (not necessarily financial) are in the short term
- Supporting the Continuous Improvement work stream to help identify and evaluate future initiatives, providing counsel about the wider impact on the business making sure these are imbedded in the plan
- Providing insight on the drivers of cost performance including, but not limited to; exchange rates, commodity fluctuations, strategic initiative delivery, buying performance, mix and volume
- Understanding how different sales channels have an impact on the overhead recovery of the business
- Understanding and interpreting prior, present and future logistics costs to understand how we can utilise our own network to its optimum or other routes
- Monthly preparation of commercial MI to summarise performance and help bring together the commercial story, driving effective business decisions
- Implementation and routine upkeep of cost calculators to ensure standards and costs are accurate to enable future accuracy of forecasting
- Assisting with the preparation of the yearly budget alongside the Business Unit Managers and the Central Finance team
- Planning and review of overhead budgets, partnering with cost centre owners to shape organisational design for the future
- Production of ad hoc management information using various systems, both bespoke and off the shelf
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and external standards
What are we looking for?
- Qualified/Part Qualified accountant (CIMA / ACA / ACCA)
- Strong analytical skills (MS Excel)
- Experience in a fast paced finance environment
- Strategic thinker
- Ability to build and develop collaborative relationships
- Ability to influence stakeholders
- Excellent Communicator
- Strong leadership qualities
- Right-first-time ethos, strong problem solver and passionate about root cause analysis
- Self-starter with a high level of motivation
- Proven ability to manage and organise own, and teams work load
- Resilient attitude and desire to see things through to completion
What's in it for you?
We are a rapidly growing and exciting business, dedicated to the development of our colleagues and committed to creating a great environment for people to come and work. In order to grow we need to find people already living our values, culture and commitment.
In return we will offer you development, a competitive salary and benefits package, inclusive of:
- 10% Asda In store Discount
- Annual Bonus Scheme
- 33 days Annual Leave - Inclusive of 8 days bank holiday
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Life Assurance - All our colleagues benefit from life assurance of 4 x their annual base salary.
- Help@hand - Free, direct access to health and wellbeing support service, including unlimited video consultations with a UK-based GP 24/7, physiotherapy and mental health support.
- Grocery Aid - We’ve partnered with Grocery Aid to our colleagues and their families with a wide range of emotional, practical and financial support services.
- Asda mobile Discount - 30% off a wide range of Asda Mobile bundles and add-ons for our colleagues and one of their family members.
- Asda Pet Insurance discount – Up to 10% Discount
- Exclusive Exchange Rates via Asda Money - our colleagues can get a better exchange rate for their travel money when buying currency through Asda Travel Money (TravelEx)
- Ride-to-work scheme - We work with Evans to provide our colleagues with great savings across their range of bikes, clothing and equipment.
- Plus lots more! - Depending on job band, other fantastic benefits are also available including private healthcare, car allowances and long term incentive schemes.
- Free car parking
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