Pricing Analyst
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Are you looking to join a dynamic global industry leader that can boast nearly 120 years of excellence, growth, and continuing innovation? Do you hold yourself to the highest of standards? If yes, then we would love to hear from you.
The purpose of this position is to provide commercial and technical support in setting and maintaining prices, in deriving correct pricing strategies, monitoring the impact of pricing decisions, implementing pricing changes and resolving any pricing queries. Has ownership of the pricing model and is the first point of contact for any pricing queries. The incumbent also supports financial, business analysis and management reporting and conducts financial analysis on profitability enhancing opportunities and strategies.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Support operations, sales and marketing teams in deriving pricing strategies that match business objectives and deliver expected financial results
- Management and implementation of new product pricing and periodic price changes
- Management of “technical” pricing strategy including bids & tenders pricing
- Continuously monitor, audit and analyze automated price quote activity to assure systemic risks are identified and corrected, sales training issues are identified and addressed, and pricing formulas and tables are properly maintained for approved pricing changes
- Develop, update and report to management and business partners on key pricing performance indicators.
- Team with Sales Managers and BSI sales professionals to provide clear, concise and accurate responses to pricing process and price policy questions.
- Monitor and evaluate discounting as well as pricing attrition
- Preparation of accurate and complete monthly “Work-In-Progress” accruals and expense analysis.
- Develop and maintain appropriate performance reports and dashboards for management use.
- Management (HFM) ensuring compliance with Group Reporting structures
- Provide business modelling and ad-hoc support to business management
- Pro-active communications with local stream management and global stream finance personnel and participation where necessary at management meetings
- Perform other duties as assigned
The ideal candidate will possess the following characteristics:
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Accounting or Finance
- Minimum of 3-5 years direct work experience with financial reconciliation, analysis and management reporting and analysis.
- 2 years in an international accounting/finance function and financial planning & analysis function desirable.
- Computer skills and strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word and Excel)
- Must possess strong financial and analytical skills with experience of creating / maintaining complex financial models
- Ability to communicate results using tables, graphs and presentation quality material
- Clear understanding of UK/US GAAP
- Very strong financial accounting knowledge
- Strong knowledge of SAP a plus
Our ambition is to be recognized and valued globally as a best-in-class company; a client-driven, efficiently-run, growing business. BSI has come a long way since being founded in 1901. Today, we're a global business services organization, respected world over for the development of standards; assessment of management systems; testing and certification of products and services; providing software solutions; and the delivery of training courses. We offer diverse career paths from auditing to sales, product development to finance, and from IT to marketing.
With around 4,000 employees working with over 80,000 clients in 172 countries it means that career opportunities are vast. BSI challenges mediocrity and complacency to help embed excellence into the way people and products work. That means showing businesses how to improve performance, reduce risk and achieve sustainable growth.
What we offer:
BSI offers a competitive salary, group-sponsored health and dental, short-term and long-term disability, a company-matched 401k plan, company paid life insurance, 11 paid holidays and 4 weeks paid time off.
Our Excellence Behaviours: Client-centric, Agile, Collaborative. These three behaviours represent how we do things at BSI. They help us ensure that BSI is a great place to work and a highly successful business.BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are committed to diversity.
To protect our candidates and BSI employees during the Covid-19 outbreak, all interviews will take place remotely.