Commercial Finance Analyst

🎯 Ready to kick off your career and see how a fast-growing FMCG business really makes its money?

Come and join our great team - We are looking for a Commercial Finance Analyst!

We are a fast-growing, private equity-backed pet food group, and every commercial decision we make needs sharp numbers behind it. As our Commercial Finance Analyst, you will work side by side with the UK Finance Director to work out which products, customers and investments really make money – and help steer what the business does about it.

📍 Location: Lyon Way, Frimley, Surrey (GU16)

🚀 Experience: Recent graduate with a 2:1 or above from a leading UK university, in Business, Finance, Economics or a related subject

About The Nutriment Company

At The Nutriment Company, we are entrepreneurs, visionaries and doers. We are a highly motivated, ambitious and fun team, aiming to take the company to the next level as we grow at pace - both organically and through acquisitions across Europe. We operate in pet food, one of the most dynamic segments of FMCG, and we are proud to be Europe’s leading company in the natural premium segment. Our headquarters are in Stockholm and Düsseldorf, and we have 850+ employees across Europe. We generate €250M+ turnover with strong profitability and are owned by the Nordic private equity company Axcel.

The Nutriment Company (TNC) UK is a raw pet food business operating a multi-brand portfolio – including Nutriment, Natural Instinct, The Dogs Butcher, Pet Treat Wholesale, Bulmer Pet Foods, YPN, DiboDog and Purrform – across D2C, retail and contract manufacturing channels.

About the role

This is not a reporting job. You will sit at the center of the UK business, partnering with sales, marketing and operations, and you’ll be expected to challenge, recommend and follow through.

Twelve months in, you’ll own our margin and customer profitability insight, have built business cases that shaped real investment decisions, and have used automation and AI to replace reporting that used to be done by hand.

What you will do

• Steer commercial performance: bring the numbers to commercial reviews, challenge assumptions and recommend action on pricing, promotions and range.
• Margin analysis: explain product, brand and channel margins through price, cost and mix, and flag where we are losing money.
• Customer profitability: build customer profitability views that shape how we negotiate terms and where the sales team spends its time.
• Business cases and capex requests: model new products, customers, equipment and projects, using sensitivity and scenario analysis to show the real risks.
• Variance analysis: explain performance against budget, forecast and last year, and turn it into clear actions for budget holders.
• Dashboards, automation and AI: build KPI dashboards people actually use, and use AI tools and automation to cut manual reporting time.
• Board and investor packs: prepare the analysis, charts and slides behind monthly management, board and investor reporting.

What we are looking for

You are proactive, curious and analytical. You ask “why?” before anyone else does, adapt quickly when priorities change, and are always looking for a better tool or a faster route to the answer.

Essential

• 1–3 years’ experience in a finance, FP&A, commercial finance or analytical role.
• Advanced Excel – comfortable building models with lookups, pivot tables and scenario logic.
• A degree in a numerate subject, or equivalent experience.
• Experience presenting analysis and recommendations to non-finance colleagues.
• Examples of picking up a new tool or system quickly and using it to improve how work gets done.

Desirable

• Hands-on use of AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot) to analyse data, automate tasks or build reports.
• Experience with Power BI or a similar dashboarding tool.
• Experience in a private equity-backed, FMCG, food or multi-brand business.
• Experience working with ERP data (for example Sage, Xero or Odoo).
• Progress towards a professional qualification (CIMA, ACCA or ACA).

What it’s like here

Being private equity-backed means ambitious growth plans and a fast pace. We are still bringing businesses, systems and processes together, so data won’t always be tidy, priorities can shift within a week, and month-end and board deadlines are firm. In return, you’ll see your analysis turn into decisions quickly, with exposure that is rare this early in a finance career.

What we offer

• Salary up to £36,000 per annum, plus benefits.
• Hybrid working: four days on site in Frimley, one day from home.
• Direct exposure to the UK Finance Director, senior commercial leadership and group finance.
• Room to shape how our finance team uses AI and new tools.

How to apply

Apply via LinkedIn with your CV and a few lines on a piece of analysis you’re proud of and what it changed. If you’ve used AI or a new tool to work smarter, tell us about that too.

Don’t tick every box? If the role excites you, we’d still like to hear from you. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and will make adjustments to the process on request.

Deadline Dec 7th

We look forward to hearing from you!