Commercial Planning Analyst

3 days ago


Reading, United Kingdom Page Personnel Finance Full time

My client in Reading is recruiting for a Commercial Planning Analyst on a rolling temporary contract. This role is ideal for anyone wanting to kick-start their career within Finance by joining a business that offer endless progression and development opportunities.

**Client Details**

Large international organisation who are linked with a number of globally recognised brands. Endless opportunities for growth and progression.

**Description**
- Manage the robust administration and accounting of sales investments (especially promotions), including promotion setup, invoice validation and deduction management.
- Support the period close process, including accruals management and balance reconciliations.
- Support Business Partners & commercial teams to translate sales account initiatives into accurate sales data forecasts for promotions, new products and other initiatives, and determine the performance of historic sales promotions and record the sales upliftsaccurately in the system ("actualisation").
- Strong collaboration with other planning analysts and wider business stakeholders to support data preparation, cutover plans and embedding new business processes.

**Profile**
- Advanced Excel skills, e.g. comfortable with Pivots and V-Lookups & accounting
- Strong financial planning and forecasting skills
- CIMA or ACCA (Part Qualified) preferred
- Good knowledge of financial systems
- Assertive and independent with the ability to cope effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Quickly analyses complex problems to find actionable, pragmatic solutions
- Consistently works against the right priorities and takes the initiative to find ways to get better results
- Demonstrates a 'can-do' attitude and sense of passion, enjoyment and pride about their work

**Job Offer**
- Hybrid working
- Flexible hours
- Progression and development opportunities within different teams and roles
- Training
- Team focused environment



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