Commercial Finance Analyst

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnering :

• Ensure optimised profitability from both the company's perspective and customer requirements.
• Partner with Sales Teams to enhance commercial acumen and self-service capabilities in sales reporting and performance analysis.
• Support all channel related period end reporting, reconciliations and balance sheet management.
• Supporting Stakeholder ad hoc commercial queries
• Maintain a suite of relevant and value adding reporting to channel to enable transparency of performance drivers, risks and opportunities.
• Performance Management :
• Produce daily sales / Initiative Tracking and monthly reporting
• Develop and continually improve a management suite of control reports around key financial metrics (Price Matrix, discounts, spend, outlets), risks and opportunities
• Support period-end reporting, reconciliations, CMA balances
• Analyse channel performance to deliver actionable insight (e,g. trading updates) and explain key agreement terms and risks.
• Produce sales presentations for sales performance reviews.
• Compliance with SOX requirements in role deliverables and look for continuous improvement opportunities
• Support Supply Chain Finance (SCF) activities, ensuring adherence to COGS standards and accurate data handling.
• Support period-end reporting (incl. preparation and review of some accruals, journals and balance sheet reconciliations).

Analysis and Modelling :

Process Improvement :

Relationship Building :