Commercial Accountant

We have an opportunity for a Commercial Accountant to join our team.

This role has finance responsibility to support commercial decision making, generation of the commercial result and to implement and maintain robust controls of customer debtor accounts for SSUK.

Benefits of the Commercial Accountant

• 35 Holiday Days
• Up to a combined 16% pension contribution
• Access to Free Parking
• Career Development and Training
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance & Income Protection

The Role of the Commercial Accountant

• Trade Debtors Management: Conduct regular reviews of trade debtors, ensuring seamless reconciliation between the billing and finance systems. This includes accurate allocation of invoices, credit notes, and payments, reconciliation of customer prepayments, prompt resolution of discrepancies, and the establishment of appropriate provisions for doubtful debts.
• Cash Flow Forecasting: Take ownership of the weekly cash receipts forecast for trade debtors, preparing and presenting the forecast to Finance Heads for strategic review and alignment.
• Surcharge Process Ownership: Lead the monthly energy and raw material surcharge process, providing detailed calculations and insightful variance analysis to ensure accurate cost tracking.
• Product Costing Analysis: Manage end-to-end product costing, from single one-off costings to complex multi-year opportunities, ensuring timely ROI assessments and comprehensive variance analysis.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with colleagues across commercial, technical, and operational teams to fully understand product costing routes and their implications. Ensure the costing model's master data is continuously updated and remains accurate.
• Tolling Fees and Intercompany Transfers: Oversee the preparation of weekly tolling fees, intra-company transfers, and related adjustments, ensuring accurate and timely financial processing.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare and post turnover-related entries, as well as commercial provisions, to management accounts, while ensuring comprehensive reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
• Statutory Accounting Adjustments: Take charge of preparing and posting statutory accounting adjustments at year-end, aligning them with the management accounting scope to ensure smooth financial reporting.
• Business Improvement Projects: Play an active role in driving business improvement projects, ensuring that financial needs are met and supporting the broader business objectives.
• Financial Controls and Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to key financial controls and procedures, continuously identifying opportunities for process improvements to enhance operational efficiency.
• Support & Deputisation: Provide support to the Commercial Finance Manager as needed, stepping in and taking full responsibility during their absence to maintain continuity.

Requirements of the Commercial Accountant

• Experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Qualified accountant (ACCA / CIMA), Part Qualified considered in final stage of qualification
• Strong Excel skills
• Experience of working with ERP systems
• Desire and ability to question and challenge current ideas and processes in a constructive way
• Driven and ambitious personality with a desire to make positive changes
• Desire and ability to build strong relationships across the business with key stakeholders