Senior Business Analyst

Leading video games publisher is seeking a dynamic and forward thinking Business Analyst to join their Business Planning team. The firm targets a wide scale market and is one of the leaders not only in terms of innovation but also customer satisfaction.  This is a great opportunity for a Financial/Business Analyst looking to develop their career in a progressive and market leading business

This role will require the ability to identify key areas of continual improvement within the current reporting setup from forecasting, maintenance of the annual budget to the standardisation of reporting between the labels.

You will develop new areas of analysis and understanding that will then underpin the key strategic decision making within the company.

Responsibilities include:

• Under guidance from the Business Analysis Manager; participation in the physical and digital budget process and monthly rolling forecasts.
• Help with entry of the budget and forecasts in to the Hyperion planning system.  Development of ‘robust process’ and reporting to ensure all possible data entry errors are kept to an absolute minimum.
• Assisting in the regular auditing of information disseminated by the Business Analysis team and where appropriate to supplement this with the creation of new templates, or the redesign of existing templates.  Consolidation and standardisation of reporting where appropriate.
• Help develop the creation of appropriate working instructions for all core business functions from within the team.
• Build relationships with the appropriate stakeholders at our internal labels becoming a ‘go to’ point of contact for each.  Help support their information requirements.
• Development and growth of potential new areas of analysis and understanding which the team can then share with the business.  This should be across both the digital and physical market place and supplemented by data currently stored within the datawarehouse.
• Presentation of data to the Senior Management team.

The ideal candidate for this role must have:

• Strong business acumen with a commercial mind-set, candidates will ideally have a sound financial awareness and a track record of producing high quality analysis and meeting deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with an appreciation of data integrity.
• Experience with forecasting physical and digital products over a predetermined life cycle.
• Able to draw high-level business conclusions and trends from detailed financial and statistical data.
• Good oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Highly adept in the use and manipulation of excel spread sheets and reporting tools.
• Experience with financial systems such as Hyperion / Smartview is beneficial.
• An active interest in the industry.  Knowledge of/within the industry a distinct advantage

• Advanced Excel
• Hyperion / Essbase / Smartview
• OBI (Oracle Reporting)
• Business Objects (GFK Consolidation Tool)
• Powerpoint
• Sharepoint / Arcade

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