We are looking for an experienced Financial Business Analyst to join Kirk Key, which is part of the Sentric Safety Group.

The Sentric group comprises several well-known brands. We unite the world’s leading brands, innovations, and experts to protect people in the workplace by mitigating risks caused by human error. It’s why all our businesses are 100% committed to creating uncompromising safety solutions with end users in mind. We believe there is no place for compromise when it comes to ensuring safety in harsh and safety-critical work environments.

Position Summary:

This position is responsible for compiling and analyzing sales, customer, product, and market data to provide valuable feedback, insights and actionable recommendations to support, guide and improve selling and marketing activities.

Essential Duties: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Extract, cleanse, compile and analyze large amounts of raw data.
• Standardize sales and customer reporting requirements, establish a cadence of reporting, and execute report production and distribution.
• Develop and maintain financial models to forecast sales performance, revenue projections, product price/cost and profitability.
• Monitor KPIs and sales metrics to identify trends, risks and opportunities within product pricing, sales, customer, and market data.
• Prepare financial modeling to support ad-hoc business decisions.
• Regularly prepare and present financial information to senior management while providing insights into sales performance.
• Collaborate with the sales team in developing sales targets to support incentive and commissions plans and track target performance throughout the year.
• Establish and gatekeep a standardized method of capturing data in CRM system to ensure data is consistently maintained across multiple users.
• Prepare monthly sales and margin forecasts, assist in the preparation of annual budgets, and support long-range strategic planning.
• Monitor and analyze competitive activity, customer, and market data and trends.
• Provide actionable insights to guide the sales and marketing teams.
• Prepare detailed product and customer profitability analysis to support pricing and market decisions.
• Prepare financial modeling to support price/cost analysis over new product development and custom product designs.
• Partner with stakeholders across all business units (ex: sales, finance, operations, marketing) to develop analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently within managerial teams.
• ad-hoc duties, responsibilities and reporting as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in finance, business management, marketing, or related field.5 -7 years related financial analysis experience required, preferably in a manufacturing setting. Expertise in Excel modeling, SQL, experience in creating reports from D365 and PowerBI, and data management. Proficiency working with a CRM system.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Proven analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to execute work independently and self-lead.
• Strong business acumen and thorough understanding of business fundamentals
• Strong verbal and written communicator with the ability to build relationships across the organization.
• A logical mind with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work and thrive within a matrix management environment.
• Able to maintain confidentiality of financial and employee data.

At the Sentric Safety Group, we recognise that our people are our most valuable asset. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all colleagues feel valued, have a good work-life balance, and are able to bring their ‘full self’ to work. We celebrate our diverse voices and strive to having a diverse workforce that reflects the local communities in which we operate. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

We are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Should you require additional support at any stage, please do not hesitate to inform a member of our recruitment team. They will work with you to provide any reasonable adjustments required.