Commercial Finance Analyst
Walton on Thames - Hybrid Working
£38,000 - £40,000 + bonus & benefits
We are on the lookout for a commercially astute finance analyst who has a passion for data and supporting commercial stakeholders with insightful reporting and analysis.
Our client is a powerhouse brand that sets the standard in their sector for customer experience and innovation.
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 or part-qualified finance professional who is looking to take the next step in an analytical and partnering focused role.
Someone with 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
£38,000 - £40,000 + bonus and benefits, full study support is also available. This role is offered on a hybrid basis 3 days per week in office.