Commercial Business Analyst

TEKsystems Global Services is a growing Professional Services company. We provide bespoke IT solutions across a spectrum of services to a range of market leading global clients. Our business strategy focuses on continually developing our service offering and providing the commercial support needed for this growth, this role is focused on our EMEA region. This specific role sits within our Commercial and Financial Operations department and has the opportunity to progress becoming a Commercial Business Partner role or Project Analyst role.

This is a unique opportunity with a mixture of Commercial and Finance, focusing on data, analytics and process improvements whilst playing a crucial role in driving business results. As part of this team, you’ll utilize our financial, sales and operations technology/systems to cleanse, review, analyze and ultimately transform data into insight.  This role offers the opportunity to obtain an in-depth view of performance and business processes whilst providing recommendations for improvements with a “Right First Time” mindset.

This role would suit an individual seeking to be in an analytical role and is passionate about automating manual processes, in what is a fast-paced and dynamic services business. We are a people-focused organisation that takes pride in the inclusive and innovative culture that we have created.  We recognise the importance of our people and invest in the training and development to offer continuous opportunity to those who earn the right.

• BSc/BA degree or similar further education (ideally in a Business or Finance related subject)
• 1-3 years post graduate experience in business finance or similar
• Superior communication skills, written and oral, and ability to build relationships quickly
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail – “Right First Time”
• Excellent Time Management, organisation skills and adaptable to change
• Experience providing high standards of service to stakeholders
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office tools – Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access
• Experience and/ or knowledge of SQL and Tableau/Power BI (Desired)
• Experience of gathering requirements and delivering insights/reporting as agreed (Desired)
• Comprehensible understanding of financial, sales and operational metrics (Desired)
• Good basic financial acumen (P&L, cashflow, balance sheet) and understanding of financial modelling, contract pricing and differing pricing models. (Desired)

• Developing an in-depth understanding of our business operates, internal systems and data sources to provide data insight
• Develop an understanding of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) to aid in the manipulation and presenting of financial data
• Develop strong partnerships with Sales, Commercial, Operations and Finance to improve current and future business decisions
• Gather, monitor, audit and analyse sales, finance and operations data to provide insight and drive business improvements and track KPI’s
• Monitor and audit data quality, building in automated checks where necessary
• Analysing trends and variances in data to drive data accuracy
• Increase productivity by implementing and maintaining automated data processes.
• Supporting in management reporting on financial budgeting, month end revenue and profitability analysis on the EMEA Region
• Management reporting on sales performance and reward tracking
• Supporting strategic priorities and transformational projects sponsored by the Senior Leadership team
• Driving excellence through process improvements
• Development of business cases for strategic decision making