Job Description
Senior Commercial/Financial Analyst - £60k
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.