Commercial Analyst - Manchester

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Commercial Analyst

Manchester

£30000 - £35000 per annum

Supporting the Group MD and Commercial team with the planning, forecasting and reporting cycle and providing commercial finance support to the business.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities for:

* All Sales reporting

* Implement a suite of reports to simplify the process and evaluate information effectively for sales and marketing

* Weekly sales reporting - UK, USA Group

* Board reports - UK and ensuring that we have OVOTT across both UK and USA sales-based reports

* Sales Analysis and KPIs - To include period reporting on items sold, type, colour, VIC, Heritage, Modern, trends...

* Sales Forecasting

* Supporting H.O. Sales, MD and finance produce forward looking forecasts on customer sales, commissions etc

* Marketing support

* Pricing proposals for each marketing period and event

* Maintenance of all price guides

* Competitor review and analysis

* Sales operations

* CRM reporting - Routine & ad hoc reporting using CRM system.

* Costing model - Responsibility for the management, maintenance and accuracy of the product costing model

* Own, develop and maintain sales PFM and SOPs for sales team

Key Skill Sets:

* Professional Qualification desirable (ACCA, ACMA, MBA, etc.)

* Excellent MS Office skills: Excel experience of using Vlookups, Sumifs, Pivot tables and graphs. MS Access an advantage.

* Analytical, hunger for knowledge, eager to get to the bottom of things

* Able to master complex matters, present them in an understandable way and calculate the impact of changes in assumptions

* Goal oriented and able to work independently and in close collaboration

* Able to zoom into detail and keep the big picture

* Creative thinker, solution oriented

* Challenges the status quo

* Team player, clear communicator (written, verbal, as well as through reports)