**Accept Recruitment ** are offering an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Commercial Accountant **** to join a well established, market leading food manufacturer based in LE18 postcode.

The position is on a permanent basis with working Monday to Friday office hours with the option to work from home occasionally. The salary is up to £35,000 depending on background & experience.

**As the Assistant Commercial Accountant, you will responsible for:**

* Supporting the Commercial finance function in its role of controlling, analysing and reporting sales, margins results of the Commercial Business Unit.
* Assisting the Commercial Accountant, and deputise when necessary in supporting the Commercial team to maximize profitable sales for the company
* Providing sales statistics on a weekly and monthly basis for the Group and for the Commercial team.
* Calculating and explaining sales and margin variances to Budget and prior year.
* Complete profitability analyses as required
* Price / rebate management
* Updating/ maintaining pricing model tool
* Checking all required pricing and ensure that they are uploaded to the ERP system accurately and within set timescales
* Investigation of pricing queries raised by customers or Credit Control
* Maintaining the off-invoice rebate and discount accruals as well as checking and posting eventual claims by customers.
* Assisting with month end closure routine including generating accruals for the marketing budget
* Reconciling rebate accruals at the balance sheet date.
* Assisting in the preparation of budgets and quarterly forecasts

**To be suitable for this position, you will require:**

* A recognised relevant Accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA or other equivalent) or part qualified and working towards one of the above.
* Effective & strong communication skills -verbal & written
* Strong analytical skills with an ability to interpret data
* Exceptional attention to detail

**If you are ready for a new challenge, please apply now with your most recent CV and contact details.**

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the application deadline/closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

If you haven't heard back from us within 2 weeks, please assume that unfortunately on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

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Accept Recruitment is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability.