Commercial Management Accountant

Interim Commercial Management Accountant | 8 Months | Essex (5 Days in Office) Key Responsibilities

• Management of two direct reports
• Managing and mentoring AR team on a regular basis, provide leadership and mentoring
• Ensuring all month-end processes are completed to deadlines for Accounts receivable function and commercial reporting
• Responsibility for producing Monthly Management reporting accurately and on time
• Full reconciliation of all Balance Sheet Accounts on a monthly basis
• Partnering key stakeholders in commercial and resolve any queries in a timely manor
• Ad hoc reporting on AR and Sales where required
• Design and build new Sales reports to be rolled out to the business to support further insight into sales and AR.
• Lead the migration of sales reporting from Excel to the BI tool
• Manage marketing spending and develop control and performance reporting
• Manage and assess credit risk and credit limit setting
• Support the development and roll out of a new BI tool
• Reporting and monitoring of KPIs & volume on a weekly basis
• Assist the Financial Controller with the preparation of project update and performance reporting packs for the Board
• Develop and closely control AR dispute resolution with a particular focus on US AR
• Manage US Sales Tax registrations and State filings

• Strong Accounts Receivable management and Credit experience
• At least two years’ experience in a similar management role
• Commercial experience of supporting performance of sales teams ideal as well as highly skilled with strong accounting experience
• Manufacturing/FMCG/Food experience
• Sage X3 (Highly desirable) and knowledge of analytical tools (i.e. SEI, Power BI etc.)
• Advanced Excel:
  Proficiency in complex modelling, pivot tables, and VLOOKUPs/Macros is a standard baseline.