Commercial Accountant

Sewell Wallis are working with an existing client who are seeking a Commercial Accountant to join their team in a newly created role.

What you will get exposure to within this role is working closely with, and learning from, senior finance colleagues such as the Head of Finance and Commercial Director who will support you in your journey through financial modelling and analysis along with direct involvement with multiple acquisitions that will be taking place.

Your commercial input in this role will play a pivotal part in your career from the get go as you will help drive the growing business that it already is and will take it to the next level. This business are also heavily focused on rewarding hard work which is reflected in their phenomenal benefits package as seen below.

What you will be doing?

• Deliver management information, budgets, forecasts and other decision support information.
• Provide financial modelling support for any capital raising activity (both debt and equity).
• Provide support for any subsequent debt facility compliance. Liaise with external advisers (bankers, accountants) as required.
• Both support and challenge internal stakeholders to quality control any financial information being provided, ensuring adherence to Group policies and procedures.
• Monitor group liquidity under multiple scenarios and recommend remedial actions.
• Working capital reports.
• Project involvement-integration of any acquisitions into the Group's budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes.
• Assist with monitoring of debt facility covenants or applicable facility tests and corporate minimum liquidity buffers.
• Track the value, trigger and expected timing of commitments.
• Take responsibility for the preparation of the templates used to gather the finance inputs to Monthly Board Pack.

What I am looking for?

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA accountant.
• Strong financial modelling skills - building financial models from the ground up, developing reasoned and logical forecasting assumptions and assessing modelling results for reasonableness.
• A full appreciation of the impact of corporate transactions throughout the income statement, cash flow and balance sheet.
• A highly developed natural aptitude for IT and systems particularly Excel and Microsoft Office applications generally. The candidate will be required to maintain/develop sets of linked spreadsheets, PowerPoint and Word files and interrogate/ manipulate data effectively.
• If coming from a practice audit background, experience working with oil&gas, renewable energy or infrastructure clients is advantageous.
• Listed company exposure.
• Experience in corporate transactions and working capital reports or the financial processes surrounding listed company circulars/prospectuses and working capital reports.
• Multi currency accounting.

What is on offer?

• Basic annual salary up to �58,000.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus of up to 40% of basic annual salary.
• Non-contributory group personal pension with a company contribution of 12.5% of basic annual salary.
• Eligibility to participate in company discretionary Share scheme and Share Incentive Plan (SIP).
• Private Medical, Dental and travel insurance (includes coverage for eligible dependants). A taxable benefit: premiums paid by the Company.
• Annual employee health-check.
• 34 days paid holidays per annum, inclusive of public holidays.
• Eligibility to participate in flexi-time scheme, which currently provides up to 10 days flexi-leave per annum.
• Life Insurance, currently at a level of up to 10 x basic annual salary.
• Income Protection Insurance.
• Health and Wellbeing allowance, currently a maximum of �425 per year (pro-rata for part years). Eligibility commences following successful completion of probation period.

To apply for the position, please send you CV below or contact Olivia Oxley.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.