Junior Commercial Finance Analyst

Where you’ll be based

This role is based in Richmond Upon Thames, London (Hybrid Working: in the office 60% and WFH 40%).

• Support the pricing process, leading file creation and set up of any key price changes.
• Preparation and first review of Net Net Pricing files.
• Review Gross Profit of pricing for loading and elevate to CF Business Partners where appropriate.
• Review and communicate pricing claims to the business and collaborate with Finance/Sales to find ways to reduce them.
• Create reporting processes to enable insight on current pricing set up to ensure accuracy in forecasting and actuals, highlighting issue areas with CF Business Partners.

• Post monthly trade spend accruals, ensuring promotional and residual accruals are timely and correctly set up in SAP and update balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ensure year‑end rebate terms set up in SAP reflect the latest trade agreements with customers, process invoices and update balance sheet reconciliations.
• In month review and of % accruals in forecast versus actuals, ensuring no areas of under‑accrual or material differences versus forecast.

• Manage the interface of rebates from Visual Fabriq to SAP, proactively managing issues that need resolution and escalating to business partners where necessary.
• Support month‑end balance sheet process and system reconciliation between Visual Fabriq and SAP.
• Lead management of daily rebate interface errors, resolving issues and involving CF Business Partners where appropriate.
• Retrospectively challenge sales where rebates allocated to invoices do not match.
• Lead Rebate risk meetings with CF Business Partners, highlighting areas of under‑accruals, proposing alternative rebates and flagging any concerns on assumptions to be considered on Year To Go accruals.
• Prepare seasonal Sell Through trackers working closely with CF Business Partners and Sales Account Managers.

• Send out key monthly reporting around business performance for actuals and forecast, providing insight where appropriate.
• Always look to find opportunities to automate and improve reporting.

• Ownership of month‑end calendar update and task allocation, sending out key month‑end reports, supporting the Senior CF Business Partner on the Working Day 2 submission and running the month‑end comment and BI tables.

• Lead the account review process for a key account, business partnering with the Sales National Account Manager to ensure the actuals and forecast are accurate and robust, supporting in driving margin improvements.

• Collaborate within your team, working together on key shared tasks and ensuring tasks are completed even when one of you is out of the office.

• Looking to start or studying towards an accounting qualification, CIMA preferred. Expectation to begin study after 6 months in role.
• Graduate with a finance related degree and a placement year, or finance professional with up to 2 years’ experience in an FMCG / Retail or Financial / Consultancy environment.
• Strong communication/presentation skills – able to effectively communicate with both financial and non‑financial audiences.
• Performance driven, tenacious and goal oriented.
• Excellent planning and organisation skills, with good attention to detail.
• Ambitious and motivated to achieve results.
• Able to build solid relationships.
• Good knowledge of Excel; experience of accounting systems such as SAP S/4
  
  HANA, TPM and BI is useful.

For the Junior Commercial Finance Analyst position, the salary range is £32,000 - £40,000. In addition, the benefits package includes a bonus, pension, life cover, chocolate allowance, chocolate giveaways, chocolate discount, £100 personal development allowance, birthday day off and additional benefits.