Accountant - Convenience - Ambient

Bradford Source: WhatJobs
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Overview

In this key commercial finance role you partner with Commercial teams to provide financial insight, challenge and analysis that supports profitable growth. You will collaborate with Category Directors to understand performance, identify opportunities and risks, and translate data into actionable commercial recommendations. You’ll support budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting while shaping the commercial agenda with data-driven insight. This role sits at the intersection of finance and commercial decision-making in a fast-growing retail environment.

Pay / Benefits

  • 15% in-store discount from day one
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • Market-leading pension scheme and life assurance
  • Private healthcare
  • Career progression and development opportunities
  • Generous holiday entitlement

Responsibilities

  • Act as a business partner to commercial and supply chain functions, embedding finance into day-to-day decision making
  • Challenge non-finance stakeholders to drive accurate end results and profitability
  • Provide financial insight to support trading performance, pricing decisions, promotions and margin improvement
  • Drive continuous improvement in commercial finance processes and analyses
  • Produce robust analysis of weekly trading performance, identify trends, explain variances and recommend actions
  • Support annual budget-setting for commercial margin
  • Build reporting tools to enhance understanding of performance and speed up decision making
  • Collaborate with Finance to ensure consistent reporting, planning and governance
  • Support strategic commercial decisions with robust financial analysis and recommendations
  • Develop financial models and business cases for commercial initiatives and evaluate post-investment performance

Key requirements

  • Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with strong commercial acumen
  • Ability to challenge stakeholders and deliver clear end-results
  • Strong Excel and Google Workspace skills; experience with financial reporting and planning systems
  • Resilience and adaptability in a changing environment
  • Ability to analyse complex data and turn it into clear, actionable insight
  • Proactive, curious and solutions-focused
  • strong communication
  • stakeholder management
  • proactivity
  • Excel
  • Google Workspace
  • financial reporting systems

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