Commercial Management Accountant

Role: Commercial Management Accountant Location: Leeds, LS15 8GB (We operate a hybrid schedule, meaning 2-3 days a week, after completion of training) Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 per annum, DOE plus extensive benefits Contract type: Permanent Employment type: Full time Working hours: 37.5 hours Monday – Friday, we work on a core hours principle. Our core hours are 09:30 - 16:00; you can work around these to suit you! Do you want to work for the nation’s largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We’re a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years’ experience, helping over 1.6 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery. We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day. Our people are fundamental to our success and ensuring we achieve our vision to be a world leading, patient-centric digital healthcare provider. We are committed to continuing to develop a positive, open and honest working environment for all. As a Commercial Management Accountant, you will play a key role in determining and analysing direct variable costs and overheads with robust processes and business partnering with key stakeholders and budget holders across the business, forecasting cost behaviour throughout the month in real-time, offering valuable commentary on financial performance and making appropriate recommendations to drive profitability. Your role will support the Senior Commercial Accountant and Finance Director to manage the increasing demands of a growing, ambitious and data-driven company and deliver ad-hoc request for scoping and modelling costs associated with new projects. What’s in it for you? Occupational sick pay Enhanced maternity and paternity pay Contributory pension Discounted insurance (Aviva) Employee discount site Discounted gyms (via our blue light card and benefits schemes) Employee assistance programme In-house mental health support Health and wellbeing initiatives Social events throughout the year Cycle to work scheme Green car scheme*(subject to minimum earnings) Registration fees paid (GPhC, NMC, CIPD etc) Long service bonus Refer a friend bonus Blue light card Hybrid working Commitment to CPD/training 25 days annual leave increasing with service Annual leave buy and sell scheme Discounts & Exclusive offers at The Springs, Leeds 25% Discount & health & beauty purchases 25% Discount on Pharmacy2U Private Online Doctor Services What you’ll be doing? · Responsibility for costing and forecasting costs within the business and commentating variance analysis to budget holders · Driving continuous improvements in reporting, analysing and forecasting business performance · Comprehensive understanding and tracking of the key cost drivers within the business in terms of behaviour and impact · Working with budget holders to understand the key factors that contribute to the costs of the business to help build annual budgets that feed into the Group wide budget process · Supporting budget holders to be able to ensure spend is inline with budget and where necessary reduce costs and drive cost savings through identifying risks and opportunities · Identifying and investigating trends and offering recommendations to key stakeholders in order to drive growth and profitability in real-time for maximum reward · Assisting with commercial tenders and other requests for new projects and initiatives, ensuring activities are fully scoped, modelled appropriately and all costs are considered and captured · Building working relationships throughout the group with great exposure to the Senior Leadership Team · Supporting the Senior Commercial Accountant and Finance Director where necessary Who are we looking for? · Qualified/part qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA or demonstrable QBE · Advanced/fluent excel skills · Communicating financial information to a range of stakeholders · Commercially driven with the ability to guide and support strategic decision-making through analysing data · Performing in a high-pressured environment, delivering against tight deadlines · Working within company and ethical rules and regulations · Manipulating and analysing large data sets · Communicating financial information to a range of stakeholders What happens next? Please click apply and if we think you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange an interview. Applicants must prove they have the right to live in the UK. All successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check. Unsolicited agency applications will be treated as a gift.