Financial Analyst Sales Compensation - Peterborough, UK Peterborough

As a Financial Analyst in our Peterborough, UK office, you will play a key role supporting the FP&A Senior Manager in helping to create a methodical approach for optimizing operational business processes to enhance efficiency but also perform daily tasks according to pre-established guidelines to ensure the invoicing and billing reflects the correct transactions.

You will be responsible for:

• Calculating sales compensation commissions and hedging adjustments.
• Analyzing accounts and specialized reports, investigating discrepancies, validating calculations against compensation plan rules and providing decision‑making insights.
• Carrying out monthly accruals, reconciliations.
• Participating in process improvement projects and ensuring effective accounting operations and compliance with internal controls, policies, and regulations.
• Preparing reports and presentations - regularly prepare and generate reporting and presentations for ad hoc internal reviews.
• Dashboard/MI maintenance and management – wrangle and retrieve large data sets for consolidation.
• Process development and approach – assist the Senior Manager to collaborate with other key stakeholders and develop standardized team processes to develop and define “how we work”.

You should apply if you have:

• Strong analytical skills.
• 4-5 years of experience in accounting / FP&A.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel (including modeling, advanced formulas, pivot tables, macros, etc.).
• Experience in working on sales compensation calculations and hedging adjustments would be an advantage.
• Good communication and consultation skills, both written and verbal in English.
• Familiarity with the accounting standards and a degree in Business Management/Finance/Accounting or a related field.
• Change Management experience or experience of successfully being part of a changing environment.
• An advantage, if you have hands‑on proficiency in one or more of the following business intelligence, visualization, and advanced analytics tools (e.g. CaptivateIQ, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, Snowflake, or other similar systems).
• Experience in the EU/Global payments industry would be an advantage.
• Ability to work independently, rigorous, organized and disciplined.
• Excels in team environment with the ability to collaborate and liaise with geographically distributed teams.
• Self‑starter with ‘can‑do’ attitude, a service mindset, and proactive in responding to requests.
• Professional, detail‑oriented, and organized, with outstanding follow‑up abilities.
• Enthusiastic, with a strong desire to succeed.