Commercial Finance Analyst

Job DescriptionCommercial Finance AnalystJoin us and make a difference, together!At Instant Brands, we’re looking for candidates who are smart, curious, creative, push the limits of what’s possible and are passionate about our brands. We embrace and respect diverse backgrounds, and welcome new ideas. If you want to join a winning team who drives results and creates value together, then we want to hear from you.What you will doBusiness partner with the sales team and provide financial control and insight into the performance of key accounts.How you will do itThis role will work as a link between the sales and Finance team supporting with the monthly re-forecast process and provide decision support, key analysis and reporting that drives financial insights.Key responsibilitiesMonth end reporting: Prepare insightful reporting of performance, including Customer P&Ls and KPI reporting by account.Budget & Latest Estimates: Ownership of monthly forecast models. Ensuring collation of complete, accurate and timely input data from the UK & EU sales teams. Understand sales and margin variances by specific accounts and support the team in modelling the future business performance.Promotional planning: Business partner sales account managers to deliver strong, profitable promotions in line with the business promotional calendar. Manage collation of promotional requests, financial review and sign off.Pricing Control: Ownership of customer pricing model, managing review and approval of any price change requests.Joint Business Planning: Provide support to account managers to complete scenario planning around pricing, promotions and new initiatives.Monthly account reviews: Support FP&A Finance manager to carry out monthly review with the sales team and ensure all P&L risks and opportunities have been identified.Trade accruals: Support FP&A Finance manager to liaise with sales team to prepare monthly trade accruals workings ensuring all promotional funding claims have been agreed. Ensure balance sheets and accruals are accurately maintained highlighting and risks to the business.Marketing ROI reporting: Support the finance and account teams with tracking reports to monitor benefits of marketing campaigns.Ad-hoc reporting: Support wider Finance team with ad-hoc reporting requirements Highlight potential improvements: Using day to day understanding of processes to highlight to the potential improvements that could be made to the way we work. The aim being to reduce complexity, time spent to deliver outputs, or improve outputs.Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience Required· Looking to studying towards CIMA or equivalent – possessing a broad knowledge of Finance techniques and practices· Proficient in Microsoft Excel - comfortable manipulating large volumes of data to prepare clear and accurate analysis for quick decision making.Communicates & Collaborates Effectively – communicates in an appropriate and timely way, building understanding by listening actively and asking the right questions.Drive for Results – appropriately prioritises work and creates plans to deliver to tight deadlines.Embraces Change – is open to, and generates new ideas and ways of doing things, supports change initiatives.It is Instant Brands policy to ensure equal employment opportunity for all persons without discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or any other protected status.
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