Commercial Finance Analyst (Hybrid) (6 months FTC)

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

The Role

Commercial Finance is a dynamic team supporting the business in developing and delivering our strategy through insights, business partnering, commercial acumen, and financial & commercial modelling and support. Highly valued by the business we are working hard to transform the finance function and ways of working in order to step up the value we deliver.

We are looking for a bright and inquisitive analyst to join our team on a FTC to perm basis. You will want to dive into the detail to understand what is happening commercially, as well being able to succinctly summarise your insights for presentation and action. You will work with the wider finance team on various projects as we continue through a period of transformational change, and most closely with the Commercial Finance Business Partners & Head of FP&A to support the ambitious growth targets we have for our business. You will work with the team to support our transformation agenda and set up new KPIs and insights for our ambitious F30 plan.

You will be passionate about accuracy and able to easily manipulate data in manual processes, whilst also exploring every opportunity for best practice, automation and dashboarding for replicable insights. You will be highly visual in your presenting style, able to tell a story from facts and data and keen to explore new visualisations or metrics to summarise your points clearly.

You will need brilliant excel & powerpoint skills, as well as an understanding of our business environment and the metric requirements of a P/E backed business. The right candidate will be a highly commercial team player skilled in working in a fast paced environment and comfortable with working through transformational change.

You will be a self starter who is bought into our continual improvement agenda and happy to work on different projects on an ad hoc basis, as well as delivering on regular month end deadlines. You will be excellent at the detail as well as understanding commercial impact and have experience in modelling, analysis and ideally MI / Board level reporting. You will want to understand and communicate actions based off your insights and be able to flex to work effectively to tight turnarounds and deadlines during busy periods.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Support and analysis to deliver F30 plan
• Ad hoc modelling on various financial projects – for example LFL analysis or FX analysis
• Ad hoc finance projects such as process improvement, automation, one off investigations and commercial business support
• FP&A support and analysis
  • Refresh and check of Board Deck
  • Collation and initial review of variance analysis from FBPs
  • NetSuite to Anaplan reconciliation
  • Monthly P&L reporting by function
  • Run monthly iLevel reporting for P/E owners
  • Refresh exec pack
  • Exceptionals reporting
  • Headcount reporting
  • Acquisition and new initiative tracking and reporting

KEY INTERFACES

• Finance Leadership Team (CFOO, Commercial Finance Director, Group Financial Controller)
• Head of Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Team

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• Qualified via CIMA/ACCA
• Excellent Excel skills; experience turning large data sets into clear summaries and conclusions
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills
• High commercial acumen, intellectual curiosity and critical thinking
• Financial modelling experience
• Excellent PowerPoint skills and experience
• Task orientated with the ability to flex to hit tight deadlines as required
• Able to work well under pressure
• Experience in prioritising variable workload to meet targets
• Good stakeholder management experience and skills – an ability to work cross functionally to achieve goals both individually and through others
• Relevant financial qualification

Personal Attributes

• Outstanding attention to detail – ability to present accurate information precisely and confidently across the business
• Takes personal responsibility to meet commitments and actively seeks additional responsibility
• Proactive team player with strong work ethic
• Flexible “can do” solution orientated attitude
• Excellent interpersonal skills, good at relationship management
• Integrity, sound judgement and decision-making ability
• Able to work to tight deadlines and deliver in a change environment
• Able to work independently in a remote environment to still deliver results
• Able to build relationships and trust both remotely and in person

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

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