Commercial Finance Analyst

We are currently supporting the recruitment of a skilled and detail-focused Commercial Finance Analyst for an innovative and forward-thinking Northamptonshire business. As an industry leader in e-commerce fulfilment services, the company is renowned for delivering a cutting-edge service via its award-winning and sector-specific software solutions.

By conducting intricate market opportunity evaluation and the careful analysis of product lines, the successful applicant will provide colleagues with valuable insight into performance-related data, which in turn will inform strategical decision-making processes and secure the ongoing overall profitability of the business.

The role is based in a contemporary and fun office in Northampton, offering a bright and creative working environment.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Support the financial planning process through analysis of data (products/services) and facilitation of forecasting and budget processes
• Supporting the company with the development of tools and live business reporting dashboards including sales, customer profitability, service models and product line analysis
• Evaluation of market opportunities and preparation of business proposals
• Provision of strong analytical support across Operations, Commerical and Finance in order to understand and improve performance
• Providing recommendations to reduce costs and improve financial and non-financial performance
• Preparing financial reports with conclusions that can be used to implement more effective operational strategies
• Developing, collating and monitoring data quality metrics on current and new clients, current and new products and growth opportunities
• Developing financial models and conducting benchmarking
• Assist the CFO with financial reporting and ad-hoc business reporting

Skills and experience required:

• Strong technical and analytical skills are a must for this role along with a customer centric approach
• Clear, effective communication style, with the ability to manage key stakeholders
• Experience with interpreting and analysing data as well as designing tools to provide decision-making information
• Outstanding core business skills including influencing, stakeholder management and presentation skills
• Comfortable with risk and working with ambiguity
• Strong interpersonal, organisational and time management skills
• Commercially aware, understanding and anticipating the needs of both operations and management
• Working towards a professional accountancy qualification would be advantageous
• Experience of MySQL database management system advantageous along with Power BI

Salary and benefits:

• Up to £55,000
• Flexible working (core hours 10am – 4pm)
• Healthcare plan
• Company laptop
• Pension