Morgan McKinley are exclusively partnering with a growing FMCG business to recruit a Commercial Accountant into their finance team.
This is an opportunity for an accountant who wants to be close to the commercial decision-making, working directly with sales and category teams and taking ownership of the financial performance of a key brand portfolio.
The Role
You'll act as a key finance partner to the commercial side of the business, using financial insight to understand performance, challenge assumptions and support better decision-making.
You'll be involved in:
- Partnering with Sales and Category teams to understand and improve commercial performance.
- Taking ownership of the P&L for a key brand portfolio.
- Analysing actuals, margins, COGS and variances to identify key drivers.
- Supporting budgeting and forecasting and challenging commercial assumptions.
- Managing and improving working capital.
- Providing financial insight to support pricing, sales and commercial decisions.
- Getting into the detail behind the numbers and translating this into clear commercial recommendations.
- Improving processes and reporting across the finance function.
- Working with internal and external stakeholders across the wider business.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who is as comfortable challenging a commercial stakeholder as they are preparing the numbers.
Ideally, you'll have:
- ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification.
- Strong management accounting experience.
- Previous industry/operational finance experience.
- A strong understanding of P&L, COGS, margin and working capital.
- Experience partnering with non-finance stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and Excel skills.
- A commercial mindset and genuine curiosity.
- The initiative to identify a problem, investigate it and come up with a solution.
Why This Role?
This isn't a role where you'll simply produce the management accounts and move on.
You'll have real ownership of a brand partnership, working alongside commercial teams and helping them understand the financial impact of their decisions.
It's a fast-moving environment with plenty of autonomy, so it will suit someone who enjoys getting into the numbers, asking questions and using finance to influence the wider business.
