Senior Commercial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst – £55k

My client is a leading creative agency, they are currently looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join the London team. A self starter you will lead the relationships with internal team to deliver profitability.

Core to the role:

• Analyse client profitability and main drivers to support pricing and fee decisions and negotiations.
• Create/Manage data modelling, forecasting and analysis of client profitability in order to ensure accurate planning and target settings.
• Analyse key business metrics, such revenues, profitability by business unit and departments.
• Track performance against budget and forecast, providing insight into variances and recommending corrective actions.
• Become a trusted business partner with the Client Partnership team and Project Management team. Collect weekly revenues and resourcing updates; create and present financial reporting to business leads and the leadership team.
• Drive and support the evolution and improvement of tools, reporting and analysis capabilities within the Commercial Finance team. Be responsible for data collection and drive template automation.
• Liaise with accounting on revenue recognition, compensation costs, and below line costs.
• Partner with Project Management to monitor, track, and approve costs.
• Liaise with Accounting for project wrap process and balance sheet reconciliations.

Essential skills:

• Confident and clear communicator with experience of influencing commercial teams.
• Ability to present analysis in a clear and concise manner.
• Proven ability to draw insight from data and make recommendations.
• Eager with learning new tools, technologies and methodologies.
• Great business and commercial acumen, strong understanding of business operations and ability to provide actionable insight to drive commercial decisions.
• Result driven and problem solving mentality.
• High level of analytical skills.
• Advance knowledge in Excel/Google Sheet and knowledge of data visualisation software.

If you are looking for a challenge where you will help shape your role, get in touch to find out more.