Financial Analyst - 12 month FTC

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation; East Grinstead; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation in Europe seeks a Sales Analytics Specialist to deliver accurate analytics and business partnering across sales and finance, supporting budgeting, discounts and revenue planning.

You will work with SAP, BW, Tableau, Hyperion and AI-enabled analytics to produce monthly and quarterly insights, multi-currency reporting and data governance for stakeholders across regions and channels.

Qualifications

• Ability to manipulate large amounts of raw data to produce financial information.
• Ability to analyse figures and present the information in a readable and understandable format for non-finance staff.
• Advanced IT skills (MS Excel).
• Multi-currency work experience.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
• Flexible approach and inquisitive nature.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to deal with different cultures and styles.
• Recognised accountancy qualification.
• Experience of Hyperion, Tableau, BW and SAP.
• Use of AI Solutions to aid in Analytics.
• Consumer Goods or Manufacturing Background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Providing monthly and quarterly sales analytics to the business, including regional, channel, customer and PL level performance vs budget and prior years.
• Quarterly Customer Performance reporting for internal and external purposes.
• Active involvement in the sales budgets, including modelling of dealer budgets.
• ROI analysis of promotional activity.
• Analysis of forward order program, discounts and dealership profiles.
• Cost to serve and profitability analytics at a channel and dealer level.
• Checking the integrity of the sales data within reporting systems (BW, Tableau, SAP).
• Collaborating with the wider Data Analytics team to migrate reporting into new platforms, including AI-assisted analytics.

Skills

Data analysis

Advanced Excel

Multi-currency experience

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Education

Recognised accountancy qualification

Tools

Hyperion

Tableau

BW

SAP

AI tools

Job description

Key Purpose of the Job

To provide accurate sales analytics information for Fender’s European operation. The role will provide business partnering to key stakeholders in the business, and provide good quality analysis for all aspects of sales and discounts.

Main Responsibilities

• Providing monthly and quarterly sales analytics to the business, including performance at a regional, channel, customer and PL level, vs budget and prior years.
• Quarterly Customer Performance reporting, for both internal and external purposes.
• Active involvement in the sales budgets, including modelling of dealer budgets.
• ROI analysis of promotional activity.
• Analysis of forward order program, discounts and dealership profiles.
• Cost to serve and profitability analytics, at a channel and dealer level.
• Checking the integrity of the sales data within the reporting systems, including BW, Tableau and SAP.
• Collaborating with the wider Data Analytics team to migrate reporting into new platforms, including use of AI solutions to aid with analysis.

This is an indication of the main responsibilities of the role and the Company reserve the right to amend the content of the role at its discretion.

Key Working Relationships

Internal

• Financial Planning & Analysis team
• EVP EMEA
• Product Team
• Finance Team, Europe and US
• Global Data Analytics team

External

• Limited external relationships

Person Specification

• Ability to manipulate large amounts of raw data, to produce financial information
• Ability to analyse figures and present the information in a readable and understandable format for non-finance staff
• Advanced IT skills (MS Excel)
• Multi-currency work experience required
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
• Flexible approach and inquisitive nature
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to deal with different cultures and styles
• Recognised accountancy qualification
• Experience of Hyperion, Tableau, BW and SAP
• Use of AI Solutions to aid in Analytics
• Consumer Goods or Manufacturing Background preferred