Senior Financial Analyst

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Financial Analyst with a strong background in financial accounting and pricing to join our dynamic Finance team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of financial modeling pricing strategies for Services (leasing business) a thorough knowledge of pricing hierarchy management and advanced excel skills. This position will play a key role in working with Senior Leadership and Sales to form pricing strategies maintaining Pricing Models ensuring accurate revenue forecasting maintaining latest pricing within SAP and Quoting tool (excel based) and managing pricing/quoting Duties and ResponsibilitiesPricing Strategy and Financial Modeling:Develop and maintain comprehensive pricing models for Services (Leasing) business ensuring alignment with company financial goals and market with cross-functional teams (Sales Marketing Operations) to understand pricing needs and build tailored models to optimize profitability analysis and recommend pricing adjustments based on cost structures competitive benchmarks and market in the preparation of financial forecasts annual budgets and long-term financial plans related to service Pricing Hierarchy Maintenance:Manage and maintain the Pricing Hierarchy within SAP ensuring accuracy and consistency in pricing data across all systems and with the IT and SAP teams to enhance pricing functionality and troubleshoot issues related to pricing proper alignment of SAP pricing tables with financial models offering visibility into cost structures and Over-ride Reporting:Produce regular reports on price override trends using SAP and interpret key drivers behind price overrides such as customer-specific pricing agreements market conditions or sales with the data team to identify patterns and provide insights on price override impacts including profitability and margin recommendations for minimizing unnecessary price overrides or improving pricing on Pricing-Related Reporting:Work with the data team to develop and share relevant pricing-related reports that provide valuable insights to senior management and business include reports on price/invoice accuracy credit & re-bill frequency and other key metrics that help optimize pricing and improve in the automation of pricing-related reporting to streamline the data analysis process and improve Mailbox Monitoring & Management:Monitor and manage the pricing mailbox logging tickets and tracking actions related to pricing requests (e.g. new pricing clarification of existing pricing SAP/quoting tool updates).Respond to pricing requests where possible or triage requests to the relevant member of the pricing group for further up on pending actions to ensure timely resolution and escalate where regular updates and reports on the status of tickets to senior business updates resolutions and clarifications to requestors in a clear and timely manner to ensure alignment across the Quoting Tool Maintenance (Offline Excel-based):Ensure all offline pricing materials including the Product Selector (quoting tool) Customer pricing spreadsheets (reference materials) and Quoting log are accurate up-to-date and functioning review and validate data inputs within the Sales Quoting Tool to ensure pricing accuracy and and update the quoting log to track pricing requests approvals and changes ensuring alignment with company and implement new functionality or features for the quoting tool as requested such as automating quote log capture to improve efficiency and reduce opportunities for improvements in the quoting tool focusing on increasing the accuracy of quotes reducing manual effort and improving overall tool Budgeting and Forecasting:Lead the process of revenue annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting ensuring alignment with overall business goals and financial and maintain detailed revenue forecasts based on historical data market trends pricing adjustments and sales with sales marketing and operations teams to gather insights and refine revenue projections based on changing market conditions customer demand and business and report on actual revenue performance against forecasted targets identifying variances and providing recommendations for analysis and commentary on revenue performance highlighting key drivers of growth or decline and supporting data-driven decision-making for business & Cross-Functional Support:Act as a subject matter expert for pricing-related inquiries across the organization supporting internal stakeholders with data and the sales team with pricing-related tools guidelines and insights to improve deal structuring and revenue closely with Finance and Accounting teams to ensure that pricing models reflect the latest financial assumptions and accurately align with accounting Improvement:Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of pricing and financial modeling pricing and financial practices comply with industry standards and company pricing work: Maintain thorough documentation of pricing models methodologies and changes to ensure clarity consistency and the ability to audit pricing decisions. Ensure all pricing-related work is well-documented and stored for easy reference and knowledge sharing across the Skills and QualificationsBachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics or a related of 5 years of experience in financial analysis pricing strategy or financial modeling preferably in Services/Leasing track record in financial modeling cost analysis and developing pricing proficiency with Microsoft Excel advanced formulas and financial modeling experience managing and maintaining pricing hierarchies within ERP with maintaining and optimizing offline tools (e.g. Excel-based pricing tools and quoting logs).Key Competencies:Strategic ThinkingAnalytical AcumenBusiness PartneringCommunication and Presentation SkillsSAP Proficiency (specifically pricing hierarchy and configuration) is a plusFinancial Modeling & ForecastingProblem-Solving & Process ImprovementSales Quoting Tool Management (Excel-based)Process Automation & Efficiency ImprovementsPricing Override Reporting & AnalysisWhat we offer Competitive annual salary Hybrid working Annual Bonus Scheme Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme Cycle to Work scheme WPA Optional private medical insurance and/or dental and optical cash plan Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) Free eye tests 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays Long service awards Pension scheme with employer contributions matched up to 6% Death in service benefit Life assurance (4x annual salary) Plus many more