Group Commercial Analyst

Barratt Redrow; Chester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm in Chester is seeking a Group Commercial Analyst responsible for producing analytical reports for internal stakeholders. You will gather and interpret data to inform business decisions while supporting the Group Commercial team. Qualified candidates should have a CIMA or ACCA certification, be highly numerate, and possess strong organisational skills. This role plays a fundamental part in the Group management information strategy, ensuring effective communication with senior management and various departments.

Qualifications

• Candidates must be qualified to CIMA / ACCA or have a Construction related HND level or higher.
• Post-qualification experience in a similar role is required.
• An understanding of current business operating systems is needed.
• Candidates should be methodical, conscientious, and organised.

Responsibilities

• Produce management information for various internal customers.
• Conduct weekly reporting and understand market drivers.
• Analyse data to identify business impacts and trends.
• Provide ad-hoc reporting to highlight trends and drive performance.
• Prepare reports for upper management, including cost analysis.

Skills

Organisational skills

Analytical skills

Numeracy

Attention to detail

Education

CIMA / ACCA or Construction related HND level

Job description

Job Overview

What you’ll be doing? Supporting the business and our divisional offices, our Head Office functions cover all departments from our Executive Board through to our support functions such as Group Design and Technical, HR, Health and Safety, IT, Sales and Marketing, Commercial, Procurement, Group Finance, Corporate Affairs, as well as Legal and Company Secretariat. We also have a specialised function - Barratt Partnerships.

While the work varies from team to team, our key requirements don’t: you must be well organised, extremely helpful and resourceful, and able to use your initiative. You’ll understand that what you do is important, and impacts on your team, the department, and the wider business.

Reporting to the Group Commercial Estimating Manager, you will be responsible for working with the Group Commercial team as an analyst, extracting, reviewing and consolidating information that is contained within Commercial operating systems supporting a wide group of stakeholders. As a Group Commercial Analyst, you will create a real and active partnership with both operations and management.

Responsibilities

• Production of management information for a range of internal customers, adding insightful analysis to drive business decision making.
• Production of weekly reporting, understanding the current market drivers.
• Analyse both short and long‑term data; identify business impacts and issues; highlight key trends and anomalies to enable change and continuous business improvements.
• Provide both regular and ad‑hoc reporting and analysis to the business to highlight trends and drive performance.
• Preparation of regular reporting to upper management, including exporting data from business systems, analysing and summarising the results and reporting of other cost data such as analysis of waste cost, non‑productive expenditure, etc.
• Drive use of existing management information within the business and the efficiency of production.
• Develop reporting in line with market trends and business needs.
• Deliver excellent service to internal customers such as members of the Executive Team, Group Financial Controller, Group Commercial Director, etc.
• Act as the Commercial representative or lead on medium‑term projects within the business.
• Fundamental role in the Group management information strategy.

Qualifications

• Qualified to CIMA / ACCA or Construction related HND level or higher with post‑qualification experience in a similar role.
• Have an understanding of current business operating systems.
• Highly numerate with excellent attention to detail, able to gather, interpret and present data for reporting.
• Methodical, conscientious and organised.