Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

Is this your next challenge in Commercial Finance?

Reporting to the Commercial Finance manager, your responsibility will be to provide financial analytics, commercial and strategic support to the Commercial Directors, providing valuable insights that drives commercial and strategic outcomes.

Your will be required to structure and lead commercial strategic and analytic projects which will assist in influencing business making with fact-based actionable insights across commercial departments.

Additional responsibilities will include but are not restricted to the following:

• Work with the commercial team to produce the annual budget and re-forecasts including commentary for regular business review
• Support development of the financial strategy needed for category and business objectives
• Generate insights and commercial recommendations that will drive end to end profitability improvement, through advanced modelling and analysis of financial and non-financial data (e.g. market insights and trends, profitability, cost and efficiency analysis); and highlight potential risks and opportunities
• Identify and define system improvements to enhance ability to deliver on report and insight generation
• Engage in business cases for any new business initiatives

Do you have experience in Financial Analytics and Commercial Analysis?

• 2 to 5 years of experience working with complex and fast-paced organisations, preferably within the retail industry, Big 4 and strategy consulting
• Proven experience in structured problem solving, preparing, understanding and analysing financial information to identify business opportunities/challenges and recommend alternate actions
• Ability to generate insights and recommendations that will drive end to end profitability improvement and cost efficiency
• Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills
• Experience with big data, identifying insights and storytelling
• Strong communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Experience of working with and influencing non-financial stakeholders especially Commercial functions
• Advanced level in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office
• Experience with SQL is a must, with Tableau / Power BI desirable
• A continuous improvement mindset and track record of execution
• Good command in English and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)