Sales Operations Analyst

Placed: 08/12/17
Region: Buckinghamshire
Location: Gerrards Cross
Category: Jobs


Content of the advertisement:

Job Title: Sales Operations Analyst
Based in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire
Salary: £17 per hour
Contract: Until end December 2017

Position Summary:
The Sales Operations Analyst, provides analysis and decision support for the planning, analysis and reporting function for worldwide Sales and Services, Performs analysis and planning activities for operations including pipeline, bookings, forecasting, actual and goal attainment reporting as well as installed base analysis

The position will also involve creation and maintenance of complex spreadsheets and the ability to create reports or presentations from the results. This includes heavy data analysis and research, with the ability to manipulate, analyze, and trend the results.
In addition, this person must create new methods of communicating financial analysis and reporting to assist the greater executive management team in understanding their business.

Key Responsibilities:

* Ensures availability and provision of relevant bookings, pipeline and forecast reports and dashboards to management
* Perform analysis of bookings, forecast rollups, pipeline, and trending
* Assists sales management with specific report and dashboards requests to support strategic and tactical initiatives
* Create dashboards highlighting business trends for management
* Analyze and manage data for metrics for senior management and executives
* Respond to ad-hoc reporting requests and prioritizes against competing efforts
* Facilitate EMEA wide quarterly MBO tracking
* Assists EMEA wide with the QBR presentation
* Facilitate EMEA post-quarter end process for senior management and executive presentations
* Support the EMEA Management Scorecard process
* Acts as a primary contact for reporting queries in EMEA
* Run daily, monthly and quarterly bookings reports from enterprise resource planning system and reconciles against commissionable sales and reports final bookings

Qualifications:

* Experience working in the EMEA market
* Software industry background
* Advanced level of expertise using Microsoft Office suite
* Especially advanced Excel skills with strong technical ability to automate Reports (Pivots, Vlookups, Macros)
* Experience with financial modelling and analytical tools such as Excel, databases, etc. Nice to have: experience using Salesforce, SAP and analytics tools
* Ability to take a process from start to finish, including analyzing and understanding the nature of the tasks required to complete the process
* Ability to handle multiple tasks and manage conflicting priorities and to complete assignments under aggressive time constraints, independently.
* General understanding of Sales Systems and knowledge domains relevant to specific processes and practices (within their application track)
* Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills, required
* Has an understanding of the people, processes, technology issues and a passion regarding customer service (internal and external) and delivery/execution.
* Ability to work effectively with a variety of organization, management levels, cultures, and personalities
* Strong drive and will to succeed
* Flexibility and ability to adjust on the fly to new demands; sense of urgency

Education:

* Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or similar field or equivalent experience
* 3-4 years of Sales Operations or Financial Analysis or equivalent experience

Price / Salary: £0 - £17/hour