Insight and Reporting Analyst

Sony Playstation; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading entertainment company in London is looking for an Insight & Reporting Analyst. This role involves generating insights and performance reporting for the voucher and software business. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills and a passion for the gaming industry. Benefits include hybrid working, private medical insurance, and a discretionary bonus.

Benefits

Discretionary bonus opportunity

Hybrid Working

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Scheme

25 days holiday per year

On Site Gym

Subsidised Café

Free soft drinks

On site bar

Access to cycle garage and showers

Qualifications

• A highly technical and skilled analyst.
• Excitement and interest in video games is an advantage.
• Relevant experience in analysis or data analytics.

Responsibilities

• Generate and present Global insight and performance reporting.
• Conduct incrementality and ROI analysis for retail activations.
• Collaborate with various teams for reporting consistency.

Skills

Analytical skills

Creative problem solving

Relationship building

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

BSc/BA in Business/Economics, Science, or Mathematics

Tools

SQL

Excel

MicroStrategy

Domo

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5, PlayStation4, PlayStationVR, PlayStationPlus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Our Team

The Commercial Management team within Channel Sales is responsible for planning, reporting and analysis of all commercial activity globally. Operating across the hardware, peripherals, software, PC and voucher businesses.

Voucher has seen significant growth in recent years to become a key revenue contributor and continues to evolve with the industry to create new business opportunities. The team is responsible for driving revenue to PlayStation Store and Services from the indirect channel, which covers areas such as retail and B2B. This is achieved through combining custom trade marketing solutions, local territory expertise, sales and customer data analysis, competitor reviews and collaboration with multiple internal teams, publishers and integrator partners.

Role Overview:

Reporting to the Director, Global Insight as Insight & Reporting Analyst, you will play a critical role in generating, consolidating, and presenting Global insight and performance reporting, focused on voucher and software business. This role is accountable for voucher reporting, assessing performance across critical initiatives and experiments, generating and sharing insight across the end-to-end voucher funnel from dispatch to sale to redemption, down to a retailer and store level.

What we’re looking for:

Lead critical metric and performance reporting across the voucher business

• Own the current KPI and Domo performance reporting processes, developing elegant, automated solutions, and contributing from the new VSTAR asset to further evolve our understanding and ability to extract insight. Close collaboration across D2C, Channel Sales, Services and regional Sales Development teams to bring together weekly and monthly commentary, explaining variances vs. target.

Reporting and generation of insight for central initiatives and projects, leading voucher experimentation test & learn

• Carry out incrementality and ROI analysis across a variety of retail activations, placements and campaigns, shaping future voucher strategy at retail. Leveraging assets such as promo UPC and VSTAR to develop and standardise tools and analysis for experimentation analysis.

Represent voucher business within regular forums

• Presenting insight and performance updates across Commercial and cross-functional forums. Offering opinion and findings from a variety of initiatives and campaigns.

Support across wider console and PC software vertical

• Partner with wider teams on insight and analysis around PC and console software, contributing to monthly performance updates and weekly commentary, by consolidating PC, 1P software, software market and voucher. Working closely with Reporting Analysts in D2C and Channel Sales to drive consistency of metrics, definitions, branding and look-and-feel across the reporting suite.

What we’re looking for:

• A highly technical and skilled analyst, demonstrating a proactive, explorer mentality in driving value from data
• A creative problem solver with commercial competence, not afraid to challenge existing process and thinking backed up by data and insight
• Relevant experience as an analyst, data analyst, or other related occupation
• Excitement and interest in video games and the Gaming industry an advantage
• Relationship builder, who can communicate at different levels of the organisation effectively
• An ability to manage and balance multiple tasks and projects with a keen eye for detail
• Flexible approach to working hours to support global sales and business operations
• BSc/BA (or equivalent) experience in Business/ Economics, Science or Mathematics preferred
• Experience with the following analytical and visualisation tools would be an advantage: MicroStrategy, Domo, Tableau, Power BI, Power Query
• Database querying experience (SQL) preferred
• Strong Excel skills required

Benefits:

• Discretionary bonus opportunity
• Hybrid Working (within Flexmodes)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Scheme
• 25 days holiday per year
• On Site Gym
• Subsidised Café
• Free soft drinks
• On site bar
• Access to cycle garage and showers

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Equal Opportunity Statement:

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