Job Reference: 17792
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Kildare
The Role
Commercial Accountant
1. Performance Evaluation:
Models and tools in place to carry out full evaluation of performance.
Forward-looking approach taken in relation to performance evaluation.
Models and tools to assist with identifying and assessing risks and opportunities impacting performance.
Analyse trends for all appropriate areas to provide thought leadership and insight.
Develop appropriate metrics to evaluate key performance areas.
2. Review of Initiatives:
Robust cost-benefit analysis for key initiatives completed to ensure we are clear on the payback and timings of such.
Analysis and tracking in place to ensure estimated benefits from key initiatives fall to the bottom line.
Customer profitability, Product profitability and Brand P&Ls reporting delivered to agreed scope, format, content and frequency.
3. JBPs & Annual Sales Planning:
Key stakeholder in these processes.
Modelling the what-if scenarios, understand what we can afford to invest.
4. Financial Budgeting & Forecasting:
Develop required tools and processes for the financial budgeting and forecasting of the commercial performance.
Lead and co-ordinate the financial budgeting and quarterly forecasting of the commercial performance.
Appropriate tools in place for analysis of Customer Market Agreements and Marketing & Advertising Spend versus Budget.
Ownership of the month-end process.
5. Business Partnering:
Act as Finance point of contact.
Constructively challenge the team with well substantiated dissenting opinions as appropriate.
Support the wider team in relation to decision making for optimum financial performance of the RGM project.
Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.
6. Controls:
Ensure robust reporting and effective controls in place for all areas of CMIC.
Manage and audit the business policies as they pertain to pricing.
Ensure pricing controls in place to ensure accuracy of customer pricing and zero impact to debtor cash flow.
Transfer pricing: Develop controls and review the process in relation to transfer pricing across the sites to ensure accurate performance reporting and compliance.
Review pricing across the key customers for consistency, challenging the deltas.
7. Rebates:
Ensure customer rebate agreements are kept up to date.
Ensure values are communicated to all relevant stakeholders, accurately and on time.
Maintenance of customer rebate accruals, reviewing frequently and releasing as appropriate.
Ensure weekly reconciliation of sales and margin completed, including review versus Advise.
Continuous Process Improvement and review of existing controls and processes.
The Person
Qualifications:
Ideally, experience of a manufacturing, FMCG, multi-site environment.
Demonstrable experience of leading and managing a finance team.
Ability to work in a fast-changing environment and under pressure.
Be a catalyst for change.
Constructively challenge.
Experience of ERP systems.
Advanced Excel user.
‘Hands-on’ approach to the achievement of objectives.
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