Commercial Finance Accountant
Are you a confident, customer‑focused finance professional who enjoys partnering with the business to drive insight, accuracy and impact? Join us as a Commercial Finance Accountant, where you’ll support our practice owners and internal teams with high‑quality financial expertise that underpins growth, sustainability and great decision‑making.
Sitting within our Regional & Strategic Finance team, you’ll play a key role in providing business‑critical support, financial modelling and analysis around new practice openings, extensions, relocations and practice a‑share sales, helping our practice owners plan and supporting the continued success of our veterinary estate.
What You’ll Be Doing:
1. Own and efficiently resolve financial queries from RFMs, BDPs and Practice Owners within agreed SLAs.
2. Carry out periodic practice reviews, providing clear financial discussion points and insights.
3. Attend regional meetings and provide financial support to internal stakeholders and partners.
4. Analyse practice performance, identifying risks, opportunities and clear routes to improvement.
5. Produce detailed business plans for new and existing practices, including relocations, extensions and ownership changes.
6. Collaborate with colleagues across the business to ensure revenue and cost forecasts are accurate and up to date.
7. Support practice succession planning through robust a‑share business plans and financial modelling.
8. Work with the Treasury team on bank loan options and funding recommendations.
9. Review practice surplus cash positions and propose strategic bank and partner loan repayments.
10. Support interim and year‑end dividend recommendations.
11. Manage relationships with external advisors on practice valuations, ensuring they have accurate and timely financial information.
12. Support the annual budgeting cycle, including data collation, loading and testing.
13. Analyse revenue and cost trends to challenge assumptions and support ongoing model development.
14. Identify opportunities to refine modelling processes and improve efficiency.
15. Manage multiple assignments simultaneously, tracking progress and maintaining strong communication with all stakeholders.
About You
You’ll thrive in this role if you bring:
16. Strong Excel skills and confidence across Microsoft Office
17. The ability to explain financial concepts clearly to non‑finance colleagues
18. Experience in financial modelling or commercial analysis (desirable)
19. Confidence thriving in a fast‑paced environment with multiple deadlines
20. Experience in franchise or practice‑owner models (beneficial)
21. SAP knowledge (helpful but not essential)
What You Bring
22. Clear, confident communication skills
23. A collaborative and service‑driven approach
24. Strong ownership, organisation and attention to detail
25. A passion for accuracy, improvement and high‑quality output
Pets see people for who they are, no judgement, no bias. We take inspiration from them. We value and respect difference in all its forms and aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We encourage our colleagues to bring their whole selves to work.
If you don’t meet every requirement but feel you bring something unique in your values, experience or potential we would love to hear from you.