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Commercial Finance Analyst
Addlestone - Hybrid Working
£4,000 - £45,000 + bonus & benefits
We are on the lookout for a commercially astute finance analyst who has a passion for data and supporting business stakeholders with insightful commercial reporting and analysis.
Our client is an instantly recognisable international brand that sets the standard in their sector for customer experience and innovation. You'll be joining a team of world class international talent with extensive progression opportunities available internally.
The Role
The successful Commercial Finance Analyst will manage the following:
- Work with commercial leadership to financially model sales mixes, developing targets and goals to support business strategy
- Collaborate with commercial and sales teams to determine short and long terms goals to deliver cost of sale reductions
- Support recommendations for commission targets and business goals
- Provide analysis on commission schemes to help ensure continuous improvement
- Support strategy implementation by delivering the commercial plans and forecasts
- Manage the month end process of commission actuals and forecasting
- Maintain accurate cost of sale database
- Oversee management staff incentive budget, reviewing activities and ensuring policies for incentive are being followed
- Provide regular weekly reporting and dashboards to support day to day operation and decision making for sales teams.
- Model past current and future sales channel mix
- Provide agreed external reporting to support all commercial activities including performance vs target details
- Work with sales team to unearth channel trends and strive to improve understanding of ROI on all investment activities to support investment decisions and future distribution strategy
- Identifying all risks and opportunities in monthly re-forecasting for a given channel
- Support monthly close process and working alongside cost centre managers in forecasting the SG&A budget.
- Analyse SG&A spend across marketing and sales channels to derive ROI insights. Present these findings back to the business in a timely fashion to ensure that SG&A investment & returns have visibility to key stakeholders and budget owners.
Your Profile
We are looking for a well-educated ACCA/CIMA/ACA studier who is looking to take the next step in an analytical and partnering focused role.
Someone with a minimum of 2 years prior experience as a commercially focused management accountant, financial analyst, finance business partner or within an FP&A/commercial finance function would be ideally suited to this opportunity.
We need someone ambitious who enjoys working with data and has a commercial mindset, allied to the people skills to add value to a variety of stakeholders.
Benefits
£40,000 - £45,000 + bonus and exceptional benefits, full study support is also available. This role is offered on a hybrid basis 3 days per week in office.
