Commercial Finance & BI Analyst

Macildowie Recruitment & Retention - Data, BI & MI Analytics
Commercial Finance & BI Analyst - Up to £53,000 - Permanent
Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm - Hybrid Working Available

Macildowie Data Analytics is proud to collaborate with a PLC listed organisation in Leicester to recruit a Commercial Finance & BI Analyst to join our client's trade finance function.

The key objective is to understand commercial analytics whilst building and nurturing positive relationships with internal stakeholders to create user-engaging BI/MI through Excel and PowerBI, reporting on key customer trends, customer buying patterns, budgeting and forecasting.

Main Responsibilities

• Confidently collaborating with internal stakeholders to construct appropriate value-adding commentary ensuring that the BI/MI you're reporting is user engaging and tells a story.
• Extracting data from core systems whilst partnering and cooperating with finance and the wider teams to identify trends creating new purposeful BI/MI on customer sales, customer buying patterns, customer returns, forecasting, budgeting and overseas / competitor trends, creating dashboards on a weekly, monthly basis using Excel and PowerBI.
• Creating financial performance reports against forecast working to identify tactical areas of growth.
• Transforming complex data into actionable insights that drive business growth and optimise performance.
• Cooperating with stakeholders to provide appropriate value-adding commentary helping our client identify gaps and explore.
• Identify opportunities to automate data processes and implement data quality control measures.
• Build a comprehensive and context driven, understanding of returns rates for use in modelling by income stream, adapting attributes to consumer returns behaviour and adjusting to numerous markdown events.
• Modelling total returns risk and managing the value held in the businesses balance sheets.

The Candidate

• Previous experience operating as a Commercial Analyst, Commercial Finance Analyst, Finance Analyst, BI Analyst, BI Developer, BI Analyst, MI Analyst, Data Analyst or in a similar position.
• Ability to create meaningful, clear dashboards with appropriate value-adding commentary.
• Proficient in using data reporting tools such PowerBI including DAX and Excel.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to commute to Leicester.
• Comfortably able to read and query SQL code.
• The ability to convey complex data sets to stakeholders, ensuring the BI/MI tells a story and is user engaging.

Benefits

• Bonus scheme - dependent on profit performance.
• Employee ShareSave Scheme.
• Electric Car Scheme - salary sacrifice.
• Staff discounts.
• Free parking on site.
• On-site Nursery.

The first stage of the application process is to apply online. If you would like any more information about this vacancy before applying, please get in touch with Tom Whitsey.

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