Pets at Home

Commercial Finance Accountant - 12 Month FTC

Pets at Home  •  England, GB (Remote)  •  7 hours ago
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Job Description

Join us in Pets at Home’s growing Veterinary Group as a Commercial Finance Accountant on a fixed-term contract, where you’ll play a key role in supporting Practice Owners, driving commercial performance and shaping the future growth of our nationwide practice network.

About the Role

As part of our Regional & Strategic Finance team, you’ll be a trusted business partner to Operational Teams and Practice Owners. You’ll provide insightful financial analysis, build robust business plans and support new openings, extensions, relocations and succession planning.

This is a hands‑on and varied role with real scope to make an impact.

The role offers a 12-month fixed-term contract and hybrid working ( two office days per week) from our Support Office in Handforth, Cheshire.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Resolving financial queries from Regional Finance Managers, Business Development Partners and Practice Owners within agreed Service Level Agreements
  • Leading periodic practice reviews and highlighting key financial risks and opportunities
  • Attending regional meetings and providing clear commercial insight
  • Analysing practice performance to support improvements
  • Producing high‑quality business plans for new and existing practices
  • Working with internal teams to model accurate revenue and cost forecasts
  • Managing multiple ongoing projects with clear communication to stakeholders
  • Partnering with Treasury on bank loan options
  • Reviewing surplus cash positions and recommending loan repayments and dividend declarations
  • Supporting practices through annual budgeting and testing of financial data
  • Managing the relationship with external valuation advisors
  • Gathering, coordinating and validating financial information for valuation processes
  • Challenging and refining financial model assumptions
  • Identifying ways to improve modelling and reporting processes

About You

  • Studying towards / part‑qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA (study support available)
  • Strong Excel skills and confident with wider MS Office tools
  • Skilled at explaining financial concepts to non‑finance colleagues
  • Experience in financial modelling or similar commercial analysis (desirable)
  • Comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment with competing deadlines
  • Experience in a franchise or practice‑owner model is beneficial
  • SAP knowledge is helpful but not essential

What You Bring

  • Clear, confident communication at all levels
  • A collaborative, service‑driven mindset
  • Strong ownership, organisation and attention to detail
  • A passion for accuracy, improvement and delivering high‑quality work

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!

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Pets at Home

About Pets at Home

Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.

We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.

Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.

Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!

If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Handforth, GB
Year Founded
1991
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