Purpose :
This Senior Commercial Analyst position centers around analytical excellence, actively seeking and executing value-driven projects. The main goal is to maximise revenue and investment returns while aiming to minimise costs, ensuring the organisation's success.
You are an energetic customer centric finance professional, a commercial thinker, and a strong senior analyst that is able to liaise with all levels of management. You’re someone who is genuinely passionate about interpreting high volumes of data to provide insights to the business. You have the ability to think commercially, be proactive, manage deadlines as well as think outside of the box to solve complex problems.
Primary Accountabilities & Objectives :
Commercial Acumen :
- Prepare financial models and business case scenarios
- Provide value add analysis that enables business stakeholders to make informed decisions
- Proactively communicate commercial impacts on past and future activities amongst stakeholders
- Assist in development of commercial models to understand the profitability of various business strategies
- Responsible for supporting commercial decision making to drive improved profit performance and returns on capital investments
- Enhance our culture of continuous improvement by proactively rationalising existing and introducing new reporting that aligns to business needs, ways of working and drives objectives
Financial Reporting and Analysis :
Provide insights, analysis and recommendation on our cash holdingsEstablish and maintain analysis and reporting on our People Culture and remunerationEstablish and maintain reporting and analyse on key risk areas to support financial accounting teamReviewing and report on both financial and non-financial KPIs and monitoring cashflow within the businessEstablish and maintain key contract performance monitoring to support call centre channel and outsourced finance partnersProvide monthly performance reporting and value add analysis that enables business stakeholders to make informed decisionsEstablish and maintain reporting of our store network investment, including key finding / recommendationsEstablish and maintain tracking and reporting of our trading performance including monitoring of key KPI and targetsProvide Adhoc commercial support and analyse on :
Identify, implement, and monitor risks and action items required to realise the commercial benefit from your projectsConfiguration, extracting and convert data into insights through analytics and modellingKey contract’s terms and conditions, ensuring that any opportunities are maximisedContinuously identifying and executing value-add projectsExperience :
Strong presentation and storytelling skillsAdvanced analytical and problem-solving skillsHigh level of ownership and attention to detailAdvanced time management and prioritisation skillsAble to communicate complex financial information simplisticallyExperience in a business with high transactional volumes would be advantageous but not necessaryExperience in PowerBI or other similar data visualisation technologies required - Comfortable using Power Query / Data Brick with Excel to manipulate, transform and present dataWhy Flight Centre?
Culture : you will be employed by an inclusive company that offers a team culture like no other in the industry - Flight Centre Travel Group Australia is proud to be a certified Great Place To Work® Australia New Zealand Pty Ltd
Exclusive Staff Discounts : Accessible via our employee-only portal with + of Australia’s leading retailers, health and wellness discounts, financial planning advice, employee share plan and more
Our People : FCTG is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and people from racial, ethnic, or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability
Travel Discounts : Including family and friends - flights, hotels, tours, cruises, travel insurance and more
Brightness of Future : Career opportunities in a network of brands and businesses across the globe - we promote from within
Corporate Health Discounts : Access exclusive discounts on health insurance plans for you and your family with our partner, BUPA, access to internal gym
Mental Health : Support and Employee Assistance Program for staff and family
Social : Regular awards nights, social team building and industry events, with the opportunity to attend global conferences (Los Angeles in 5)