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%). Key Responsibilities 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. Trade Spend Activities, Promotional and Residual Funding; and Year End Rebates 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. Rebate Management Process 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. Reporting 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. Month end 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. Account Management 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. Commercial Finance Support Cover 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. Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience Preferred 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/4HANA, TPM and BI is useful. How you will be rewarded financially 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr CIPHR Limited.