Commercial analyst Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Commercial analyst to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Management and reporting of full system P&L including forecasting and explaining variances to plan;
- Identification of risks and opportunities, support claims with data and suggest necessary actions;
- Ensure data accuracy and that reports generated to stakeholders are of high quality for analysis and conclusion drawing;
- Ad-Hoc Reporting and analysis when required;
- Partnering with the Global Commercial Team on the Global Client Portfolio;
- Participating and contributing towards cross divisional projects;
- Formulate future strategic growth plans for the business and your region;
- Create the promotional calendar to maximise commercial opportunities;
- Working across departments and clients to understand business questions and provide analysis to answer commercial problems;
- Presenting commercial reports, figures and key information to the Senior Management team;
- Ensure key stakeholders receive up to date business trends and statistics;
- Business partnering with directors in the business;
- Project Management and reporting of progress to ensure catalogues and rate cards are delivered on time, with clearly documented;
- Provide similar finance support on the other major planning processes (Strategic Plan, Half-Year Review);
- Ensuring products sell at competitive but profitable levels.
Requirements:
- Demonstrate pragmatic and creative approach to problem solving;
- Previous experience in energy, utilities environment preferably but not essential;
- Must have a high-level of analysis skills and be comfortable manipulated and processing high-volumes of data;
- LPC is desirable but not essential;
- Remain consistently professional confident and calm even in challenging situations;
- Ideally experience using a visualisation tool (Tableau, Power BI, etc.);
- Advanced Excel experience is also important, including pivots, complex formulae and basic macros;
- Understanding of / prior experience of subscription based business models;
- Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA);
- Good level of education, degree would be advantageous;
- Able to adapt swiftly in a fast paced, ever changing market;
- Good working knowledge of budgets and managing forecasts;
- Strong stakeholder management skills;
- Strong commercial awareness and ability to analyse financial information;
- You will need to be a strong user of either SAS or SQL (understanding of both would be amazing ).