Senior Commercial Accountant

Profit & Loss

• Review of Gross Margin and sales by Principals and month end accounts preparation and reporting
• Work closely with the Commercial Team to ensure that all commercial agreements are correctly applied and deals are reclaimed accordingly
• Supporting Commercial/Business Support team on all Master data related issues (e.g. price changes, product set-up)
• Provide support to Commercial team on linking AP & AR queries to ensure information passed to the commercial team is correct
• Continuous Process Improvement and review of existing controls and processes
• Support Budgeting, Financial Planning process
• On-going review and assessment of controls , working with Process Integration/IT to implement or enhance internal controls

Balance Sheet (B/S)

• Prepare and review of monthly B/S reconciliations for Pre-Wholesale and implement B/S by Profit Centre
• Work with the relevant business partners (including AP, AR, Commercial, IT) to ensure resolution of reconciling items in a timely fashion
• Ensure that B/S accounts and valuations reflect the true value to the business, aligned to the Group Companies' policies
• Work with the Finance team to resolve outstanding issues on monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• First point of contact for external auditors for the annual audit of balance sheet accounts
• Responsible for reconciliation of Consignment Stock Accrual and improvement on controls and processes around Consignment stock
• Liaise with the Accounts Payable team to resolve issues encountered when posting invoices and assist in resolving GR/IR issues
• Liaise with the Accounts Receivable and Principal Reclaims Accountant to resolve issues associated with Principal Debt/ Recharges
• Effectively manage Accounts Assistants to ensure they are adequately trained, monitored and developed