Deal Desk Analyst in Leeds

Equifax is seeking a detail-oriented and commercially-minded Deal Desk Analyst to join our team in either Leeds, Nottingham or London. This is a key role where you will support our commercial success by providing essential analysis, structure, and process management for our most important deals.

This is a position where your analytical skills and attention to detail are vital, ensuring our deals are profitable, compliant, and efficiently processed. You will be a central point of contact, helping our Sales team navigate the deal cycle from quotation to signature. If you are a talented analyst ready to apply your skills in a fast-paced, commercial environment, we want to hear from you.

As our Deal Desk Analyst, you will be a vital operational hub for our deal-making process. You will work within our commercial framework to ensure all deals are structured for success. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Deal Analysis and Structuring: Work closely with the Sales team to analyse deal requirements, applying established pricing models to structure quotes that are commercially sound and profitable.
• Commercial Guidance: Serve as a key point of contact for pricing and deal structure, providing guidance to the sales team in line with company policy.
• Financial Modelling: Utilise and maintain financial models to assess the commercial impact of pricing decisions and ensure margins are met.
• Governance and Approvals: Manage the day-to-day internal deal approval process, ensuring all requests are compliant, documented, and submitted correctly for sign-off.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Sales, Finance, Product, Legal, and Operations to ensure a smooth and efficient deal lifecycle.
• Tender & Bids Support: Provide accurate and timely pricing and commercial input for responses to formal tenders (RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs).
• Process Improvement: Help to identify and implement improvements to our pricing tools, systems, and deal-desk processes for greater efficiency.

• A strong academic background (2:1 or First Class degree) or equivalent professional experience.
• Current experience in a role such as Deal Desk Analyst, Pricing Analyst, Commercial Analyst, Sales Operations Analyst, or Financial Analyst.
• Exceptional analytical skills with a proven ability to interpret complex data and apply it to commercial scenarios.
• Proven experience working effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen and an excellent eye for detail.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple deals simultaneously.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex commercial data.
• Experience working within a regulated environment (e.g., financial services).
• A natural collaborator who excels in supporting a fast-paced, cross-functional team.
• The ability to translate data into clear, actionable information for sales and leadership.
• A proactive, detail-oriented individual focused on delivering accurate results and solving commercial queries efficiently.

We offer a wide range of company supported benefits including contributory pension, life cover, income protection, healthcare, enhanced maternity and sick pay, 26 days holiday and a day off for your birthday, with the ability to buy and sell and free credit checks. We also offer flexible benefits ranging from cycle to work, discounted travel options, gym membership, dining and leisure discounts, financial & savings plans, mobile discounts plus much more!

We also support personal development and have a range of learning options including our global online learning platform and allow you to bring your whole self to work supported by our Inclusion and Diversity, Wellbeing and Employee Engagement forums.

At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence.

We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life’s pivotal moments: applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.

Equifax is an Equal Opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, service in the Armed Forces, protected veteran status, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status or any other status protected by law.