Job ID :
51577BR
Location :
United Kingdom - Runcorn
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Job Description
Position Summary:
The Commercial Systems Financial Analyst will support all aspects of the business’ commercial reporting and development of its key commercial system, Cognos BI
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the business on Cognos BI through supporting ad hoc reporting requests and creating & maintaining standard reports
- Continuously develop the Cognos BI system to ensure its potential is maximized across the business
- Manage the daily maintenance of the Cognos BI system by assuming ‘super user’ status, training new and existing users, creating effective system governance and managing master data
- Continuously develop monthly reports to provide ground-breaking insights
- Manage the monthly forecasting and annual AOP process for revenue and commercial margin
- Play an active role in key projects as the need arises
- Manage the monthly cycle for revenue and commercial margin reporting, including all variance analysis, price delivery and bonus achievement
- Provide regular and insightful reporting to the business on KPIs such as price list adherence and regional / country / market / sales person / product range performance
- Provide regular reporting to the business on the performance of marketing initiatives
- Work on other ad hoc tasks as required
Non-Negotiable Hiring Criteria:
- Undergraduate degree or higher
- Professionally qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA)
- Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
- Working experience of Cognos BI, SAP and Hyperion all advantageous
- Strong communication skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with non-finance people
- Previous commercial reporting and systems experience
- A self-starter with experience of creating insightful reports from scratch
- Experience of overcoming imperfect/incomplete data to deliver robust system reporting
