Pricing & Margins Junior Finance Analyst
This role supports the business in making informed pricing decisions to ensure profitable growth and reports to the business the impact on the margins that those pricing decisions will have. Key to this will be analyzing the variances between the originally priced margins and those based on actual results, presenting these to the business, and holding the business owners to account for actions to improve those margins.
KEY JOB FUNCTIONS (Main
activities undertaken by the jobholder and reflective of the most important
features of the job)
- Draft, review, and suggest pricing for new and
existing products. This includes owning the company pricing model for
assigned business units, updating assumptions regularly in accordance with
established protocols, managing new pricing requests, and communicating
pricing changes.
- Lead the monitoring, analysis, and presentation of
unit economics’ calculations, including calculation of steady-state
contribution margins by product category, comparison of actual margins vs.
priced expectations, and diagnosis and recommendations for interventions
to improve margin.
- Present to the Exec team at the monthly Capital
Pillar meetings the results of the analysis and follow up on actions for
margin improvement.
- Be responsible for the pricing and margin
assumptions in the annual budgeting process and monthly updates to ensure
accurate pricing and margin information is used to base decisions for
future investment.
- Oversee the uploading of payments plans and manage
communication of pricing details to BI and other teams
- Any other duties as may be assigned
Experience/ Skills
& Competencies/ Licences & Certifications/ Education Required
- Experience: Proven work experience as a Finance
Analyst or similar role
Education
- BSc/BA or relevant certification (e.g. CFA/CPA)
- MSc/MBA is a plus
Competencies
- Excellent communication skills and confidence to
lead challenging meetings with senior management.
- Expert Excel skills and SQL experience are
preferable
- Proficiency in other Microsoft Office
applications, especially PowerPoint
- Solid analytical and decision-making skills
- Experience in lending business practices and
products
- Sound knowledge of data analysis and forecasting
models.
Skills
- Leadership and interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Performance management
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver on
tight deadlines
How
To Apply
Interested
and qualified? Go to M-Kopa Solar on
jobs.lever.co to apply
