Job Description

About You

You will be an experienced Commercial Accountant, ideally with experience working within a retail / ecommerce or FMCG background. Part or newly qualified with CIMA / ACCA / ACA, you will have an excellent grasp of the importance of business partnering. The role will work across different departments and effective communication skills will be key.

 

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are delivering training solutions. We know that this will help us understand our issues and solutions in more depth, which our colleagues will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we'll invite you to e-meet with one of our Talent Acquisition Specialists for an informal chat about the role over a phone call or Microsoft Teams, and to see if we're a good fit for you.

With the COVID-19 situation our teams are mostly working remotely, adjusting to this new way of working as best we can - and as such we'll help make the interview process is as clear and stress-free as possible, giving you the same opportunity as if we were meeting face to face.

 

Responsibilities

• Departmental costs - ensure spend efficiency by working with the E-commerce and wider Finance team (e.g. carrier, postage, marketing spend, etc.)
• Ensure digital marketing spend and budget are aligned to financial forecasting to maximise sales.
• Work with the warehouse to manage staffing levels in line with realistic expectations, to maximise CPU efficiency whilst maintaining a suitable service level
• Assist in the negotiation of contracts - Card fees, carriers, tech etc.
• Financial modelling and forecasting
• Commercial contract reviews - tendering out current contracts before they expire/auto renew
• Contribution reporting - Daily P&L down to contribution
• Budgets & forecasts - work with finance and the team to set realistic budgets and forecasts which are then flowed down through the team. Sales (gross & net), orders, units, channel, CPA's etc...
• 6 weeks rolling forward to be shared with Finance and the warehouse - work with finance to build R&Os in as and when they arise
• Review monthly P&L
• Analysis - Profitability, margins, pricing, product mix
• Country analysis (product, conversion, conversion funnels, AOV)
• Promo analysis
• Spend trackers

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

You will be an experienced Commercial Accountant, ideally with experience working within a retail / ecommerce or FMCG background. Part or newly qualified with CIMA / ACCA / ACA, you will have an excellent grasp of the importance of business partnering. The role will work across different departments and effective communication skills will be key.