Senior Commercial Financial Analyst
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As a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst, you will ensure that commercial decisions across Europe are made using consistent, robust, and governed profitability logic, while enabling a scalable governed decision-support capability.
This role sits at the heart of the European Commercial Finance Decision Support. The objective is to own, operate and evolve profitability and pricing models used to support strategic pricing, customer negotiations and governance decisions across Europe.
The role acts as a bridge between finance, commercial and analytics, ensuring cost logic integrity, decision readiness and scalability.
** Take into consideration this position can be based in Manchester, Madrid or Clichy. **
Key Responsibilities May Include:
- Conduct comprehensive financial analysis, including profitability reviews, variance analysis, and financial modelling, to support business decisions and optimize performance.
- Prepare and manage monthly, quarterly, and annual budgets and forecasts, ensuring accuracy and alignment with strategic business goals.
Profitability & Costing Model (Authority & Integrity):
- Own and continuously evolve the European standard profitability and costing logic, including allocation logic, cost coverage principles and underlying assumptions.
Capability & adoption (Risk reduction focus):
- Enable Commercial Finance users to correctly use and interpret profitability models through structured training and clear guidance.
- Improve understanding of key cost drivers, KPIs and model mechanics.
- Support consistent adoption of standard methodologies and tools across Europe.
Strategic Sales Model transformation:
- Contribution to the design, validation and implementation of a unified European Sales Model and ensure that changes are controlled, documented and auditable.
- Support the transition and adoption from multiple scenarios of a unified Sales Model across Europe.
Model governance, tools & scalability:
- Own the business logic embedded in commercial finance tools.
- Drive digitalization initiative to automate model processes, reduce manual intervention, improve robustness and user experience.
Strategic initiatives (Cost Clarity development):
- Partner with the Cost Clarity Manager to define requirements and ensure effective integrations of cost clarity principles into the Sales Model and adoption across Europe.
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of experience on a similar position.
- Finance experience with complex, multinational organizations.
- Experience working with profitability, costing or pricing models in a governance context.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance/ accounting or in relevant finance technical discipline.
- Master’s Degree (e.g. Finance, Business Administration, Accounting) or professional accounting qualification would be a plus.
Skills and Knowledge:
- Strong financial and analytical capability with advanced financial modelling skills.
Languages:
- English.
- Other European Language would be a plus.