Commercial Accountant

3 weeks ago


Craigavon Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Moy Park Full time

My job

Purpose

To support the head of Commercial Finance and Finance leads in:

Providing a comprehensive, proactive, and responsive financial service to the UK & Ireland Commercial Team(s). The role must drive focus on revenue growth and margin improvement initiatives with the Commercial Team, by identifying opportunities, challenging the status quo and through insightful analysis of both market and business information. To implement strong decision-support processes, facilitate projects and build strong relationships with all key stakeholders. Maintaining Customer Cost and Value Models.


Key Responsibilities

  • To take a role in maintaining robust externally facing Customer Cost Models to help support commercial opportunities, as well as minimise cost inflation pricing risks, predominately on commodity pass through model, utilities inflation, and enhancing carcass balance.
  • Ensure a strong understanding of market values and principles, understanding the cost drivers of inter-company meat supply to promote opportunities that maximise profit.
  • Provide key analysis in the forecasting and budgeting processes.
  • Provide an independent review service to support the Commercial teams and ensure robust processes, a culture of rigorous financial control and promoting commercial awareness.
  • Review commercial plans with a forensic approach and promote clarity and understanding. Collaboratively interpret the requirements of internal customers and implement solutions and assisting in the definition of standard sales reporting.
  • Enable the Commercial teams to excel as they drive revenue growth and margin improvement, including opportunities made available from customer tenders.
  • Identify opportunities for margin enhancement through insightful analysis and promote understanding of volumes, revenues, product cost and overhead drivers.
  • Assist the sales forecasting and budgeting processes, develop routines that encourage commercial participation to ensure a representative budget with appropriate narrative, sensitivity analysis and strategic opportunities.
  • Review internal Customer Trading Agreements, over-riders and promotional costs. Evaluate promotional plans and monitor actual performance, to recommend future activities.
  • Actively lead reviews of low margin and loss-making products.
  • Assist with the review of Commercial overheads and ensure the budgeted target is met by identifying opportunities to save with the Commercial teams.
  • Uphold, safeguard and promote Pilgrims values. Maintain and promote the highest ethical standards and integrity within the Commercial, Category and Finance teams.
  • Keep abreast of developing situations and techniques in respect of customers, competitors, suppliers and finance disciplines and accounting standards.
  • Carry out such ad hoc activities that management may require from time to time.
  • Commercial margin analysis (Volume/Price/Mix analysis)
  • SOX approvals and pricing approvals


Essential Skills

  • Independent thinking, be a leader with a clear independent thorough process.
  • Ability to explain to finance and non-finance colleagues alike.
  • Able to work as a part of a team.
  • Able to find new solutions through analytical, interpretive and innovate thinking.
  • Engaging communication: your communication style will engage both financial and non-financial minds.
  • Problem solving; comfortable with ambiguity, you will collaborate to solve complex problems.
  • Energy and curiosity; you will bring curiosity empathy and self-awareness.
  • Excellent time managements and organisational skills
  • Qualified (CIMA/ACCA) / Qualified by Experience


The company

Pilgrim’s Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.

Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.

  • Across Pilgrim’s Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim’s Europe team are based in our Pilgrim’s UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim’s Food Masters and Pilgrim’s Shared Services businesses.


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