Commercial Accountant

Rutherford Cross is delighted to be working with a highly successful FMCG business to appoint a Commercial Accountant on a permanent basis.  This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with prior commercial accounting exposure in industry to work with the business to support decision making in order to maximise profit.

Key duties include:

• Review of monthly rolling commercial forecasts
• To prepare pre-& post promotional activity analysis
• Provision of all ad hoc financial support as required by the Sales and Commercial teams
• Preparation & review of commercial budgets and re-forecasts
• To attend and where required provide input to the following key meetings – weekly sales call, monthly commercial meetings, NPD project meetings
• To own the financial evaluation of Commercial NPD projects from concept to post launch

To be considered for this role a candidate will have:

• Relevant experience from a manufacturing, distribution or supply chain background, preferably FMCG
• Strong commercial acumen
• Proven experience in the development and delivery of management information and financial analysis
• Advanced Excel skills working with large and complex spreadsheet models
• Strong database skills

On offer:

• Salary of £45,000-£50,000
• Excellent company pension
• Great career development opportunities