Analyst, Commercial Finance (UK/US Hours)

S&P Global Corporate

The Role: Analyst, Commercial Finance

The Grade (internals only): 8

The Location: Islamabad, Pakistan

Work Shift: Evening/Night (Rotational).

The Team: The Commercial Finance team is a global team with presence in the US, UK, Canada & Islamabad and is responsible for the tactical and strategic support of Sales & Marketing organization. The team ensures accurate and timely reporting and payments of commissions, headcount forecasting, and surfaces insights through fact-based analysis.

The Impact: This role will be integral to improving operational efficiencies on the commissions team through the utilization of LEAN and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This role will also help surface valuable insights through reporting to the Market Intelligence finance team and business partners.

What’s in it for you:

• Opportunity to develop a strong financial analysis foundation and learn about the organization
• Opportunity to enhance skills by collaborating and working closely with leaders across the Sales Organization
• Exposure to data science and data analytics teams driving best practices
• Ability to make an immediate impact on Sales & Marketing effectiveness

Responsibilities:

• Engage with the Sales leadership and Allied Teams to ensure strong partnership which is defined by world-class accuracy, customer service, transparency, and scale
• Support commission process helping manage the reporting of commissionable data-points, including the following:
  • Process managing and reporting of Sales Commissions data
  • Work with SFDC reports, managed through access database processes, research, and adjust as needed
  • Manage reconciliations between systems and various reporting (Xactly, SFDC, Access databases)
  • Work with sales teams to manage changes in renewals/new business sales
  • Research queries from sales, work directly with sales teams to resolve issues
  • Update access database & accordingly update SFDC to align with access database
  • Provide reporting to various stakeholders, reconcile update adjust
• Perform required audit reconciliations, sampling, and reviews
• Work closely with the commercial analytics team improving utilization of Salesforce
• Lead process improvement efforts following LEAN best practices to improve Commercial Finance team’s productivity
• Develop expertise and support greater utilization of Market Intelligence’s analytical tool suite amongst finance and the business partners

What We’re Looking For:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in quantitative field (accounting, finance, economics, statistics, mathematics, or related field)
• Exceptional Communication (Written and Oral) skills, with the ability to clearly and concisely articulate messages and ideas
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong attention to detail and proactive problem solver
• Ability to work independently and as a fully contributing member of a team
• Extensive Microsoft Excel knowledge and expertise
• Experience working with Microsoft Access and Salesforce
• Emotional Intelligence (empathy for clients & stakeholders)
• Above all, a very positive and energetic attitude
• Amenable to work US/UK Hour

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Tableau, Anaplan, Alteryx, Xactly

S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.