Princes Liverpool have a rare and exciting opportunity to recruit for a Commercial Accountant (Drinks) to join our Commercial Finance team. You will be working from one of the most prestigious buildings in Liverpool - the Royal Liver Building and support the commercial duties of 3 production sites with a turnover of c£310M! This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is nearly qualified or newly qualified to work for one of the UK's leading FMCG businesses.
Job Purpose:
You will assist the Drinks Commercial Accountant in providing a comprehensive financial support service to commercial management in order to maximise short and long-term profitability for the assigned SBA’s.
Dimensions:
Responsible for costing and commercial duties of 3 production sites (Cardiff, Bradford and Glasgow), with a turnover of c£310M
0 Direct Reports
1 Indirect Reports
3 Manufacturing sites
Benefits:
- Car Parking Pass
- 25 Days Annual Leave plus Birthday off
- 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
- Hybrid & Flexible Working - 4 Days in Office / 1 Day WFH
- Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days
- Enhanced Family Friendly & Carers Policies
- Life Assurance Cover
- Private Medical Insurance
- Critical Illness Cover
- Learning & Development Opportunities
Principal Responsibilities:
- To produce/manage product costings for commercial and operational managers as required and prepare tender documents.
- Preparation of open-book models and undertake cost inflation analysis to support Sales in their negotiations with customers.
- Continually improve the costing process to enable greater value adding support of the Commercial and Sales teams (with the support of IT).
- Evaluation, review and post audit of commercial activities such as new customer/product listings, sales promotions, new product development, value engineering.
- Prepare and execute the production of the weekly Flash forecast P+L, in accordance with prescribed formats, timescales and procedures, including the presentation of summary information to senior management.
- Provide support to the Drinks Commercial Accountant in the production of the monthly profit forecast for the Foods sector, with distinct areas of responsibility.
- Assist the Drinks Commercial Accountant in the preparation and production of annual budgets for the Foods sector.
- Provision of financial data and analysis to Operational management, Finance Managers or Group Finance as required
- Interpretation, communication and enforcement of Group rules, policies, and procedures
- Liaison with internal and external audit personnel as required.
- To provide cover to the Drinks Commercial Accountant where required.
