Purpose:

This Commercial Analyst position centers around analytical excellence, actively seeking and executing value-driven projects. The main goal is to maximise revenue and investment returns while aiming to minimise costs, ensuring the organisation's success.

You are an energetic customer centric finance professional, a commercial thinker, and a strong senior analyst that is able to liaise with all levels of management. You’re someone who is genuinely passionate about interpreting high volumes of data to provide insights to the business. You have the ability to think commercially, be proactive, manage deadlines as well as think outside of the box to solve complex problems.

Primary Accountabilities & Objectives: 

Commercial Acumen:

• Prepare financial models and business case scenarios
• Provide value add analysis that enables business stakeholders to make informed decisions
• Proactively communicate commercial impacts on past and future activities amongst stakeholders
• Assist in development of commercial models to understand the profitability of various business strategies
• Responsible for supporting commercial decision making to drive improved profit performance and returns on capital investments
• Enhance our culture of continuous improvement by proactively rationalising existing and introducing new reporting that aligns to business needs, ways of working and drives objectives

Financial Reporting and Analysis:

• Provide insights, analysis and recommendation on our cash holdings
• Establish and maintain analysis and reporting on our People Culture and remuneration
• Establish and maintain reporting and analyse on key risk areas to support financial accounting team 
• Reviewing and report on both financial and non-financial KPIs and monitoring cashflow within the business
• Establish and maintain key contract performance monitoring to support call centre channel and outsourced finance partners
• Provide monthly performance reporting and value add analysis that enables business stakeholders to make informed decisions
• Establish and maintain reporting of our store network investment, including key finding/recommendations
• Establish and maintain tracking and reporting of our trading performance including monitoring of key KPI and targets

 Provide Adhoc commercial support and analyse on:

• Identify, implement, and monitor risks and action items required to realise the commercial benefit from your projects
• Configuration, extracting and convert data into insights through analytics and modelling
• Key contract’s terms and conditions, ensuring that any opportunities are maximised
• Continuously identifying and executing value-add projects

Experience:

• Strong presentation and storytelling skills
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
• High level of ownership and attention to detail
• Advanced time management and prioritisation skills
• Able to communicate complex financial information simplistically
• Experience in a business with high transactional volumes would be advantageous but not necessary
• Bachelor of Business or other relevant graduate degree At least 3 years’ experience in a similar role (Analytical / Reporting role) Skilled in Power Bi, Power Query Editor or SQL
• Experience in PowerBI or other similar data visualisation technologies required - Comfortable using Power Query/Data Brick with Excel to manipulate, transform and present data
• Salary range on offer: $130-140k Plus Super (Based on Experience)

Why Flight Centre?

🙋🏾‍♀️Culture: you will be employed by an inclusive company that offers a team culture like no other in the industry - Flight Centre Travel Group Australia is proud to be a certified Great Place To Work® Australia New Zealand Pty Ltd

🏆Exclusive Staff Discounts: Accessible via our employee-only portal with 350+ of Australia’s leading retailers, health and wellness discounts, financial planning advice, employee share plan and more. 

🌏Travel Discounts: Including family and friends - flights, hotels, tours, cruises, travel insurance and more

💎Brightness of Future: Career opportunities in a network of brands and businesses across the globe - we promote from within 

🥦Corporate Health Discounts: Access exclusive discounts on health insurance plans for you and your family with our partner, BUPA, access to internal gym

🌞Mental Health: Support and Employee Assistance Program for staff and family

🎉Social: Regular awards nights, social team building and industry events, with the opportunity to attend global conferences (Los Angeles in 2025) 

🙏🏼 Giving Back: Corporate Social Responsibility program supporting nominated charities through Workplace Giving, volunteering and fundraising; paid parental and volunteer leave

💚Sustainability: The protection of our environment is essential to the future of tourism, as a leading travel group, we have made efforts to affect positive change to the environment

We value you

Flight Centre is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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