Commercial Finance Analyst
Santa Cruz Nutritionals
- Golden, CO
- $96,537 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Perform market analyses using customer POS and/or industry data to analyze profitability by customer, product, market segment, etc.
- Identify trends and provide meaningful insight to Commercial team that can be used to drive pricing, promotional opportunities, and better forecast accuracy.
- Provide Commercial strategy support. Be a thought leader in the short-, medium-, and long-range Commercial strategy of the company.
- Research and understand the competitive landscape of the consumer healthcare goods industry, including branded vs. private label dynamics.
- Become highly literate in company cost drivers and partner with Operations in the maintenance of accurate standard costs and cost savings opportunities.
- Update and maintain relevant information on key customers, products, and markets.
- Provide Research & Development (R&D) project support including providing financial, commercial, and pricing support to R&D team to identify top opportunity projects and help focus resources on strategic initiatives.
- Develop and improve comprehensive pricing models that help the company secure desired business at appropriate margins.
- Serve as backup to global pricing function.
- Travel as needed to visit Company sites, support projects, and collaborate with team members (up to 20%).
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, marketing, data science, or related field.
- 8 years’ relevant professional experience including strategic pricing analysis, market & POS data analysis, and commercial analysis in the consumer goods sector.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including Excel and PowerPoint.
- Advanced experience with BI (Business Intelligence) tools.
- Advanced experience in data manipulation and statistical/financial analysis.
- Thorough understanding of profitability ratios and income statement economics.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Must have the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with internal staff and management. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Must be able to demonstrate practical problem solving and troubleshooting skills. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Thorough knowledge of Data Analysis technologies, techniques, and languages.
- Thorough knowledge of Consumer Healthcare industry.
- General knowledge of Hyperion/Essbase reporting.
- Experience communicating with executive-level team members and/or preparing executive-level presentation materials.