Senior Finance Analyst - FP&A (Bonus & Commissions)

Senior Finance Analyst – FP&A (Bonus & Commissions) | 18-Month Contract

Ready to take on a high-impact finance role? As a Senior Finance Analyst – FP&A (Bonus & Commissions), you’ll be at the heart of financial planning, performance management, and strategic decision-making. Reporting to the Senior FP&A Manager, you’ll work with the business on the end-to-end Bonus & Commission (B&C) accruals, results, and insights, shaping compensation strategies across the business.

This high-visibility role partners closely with Commercial Managers, the Commercial Director, and key back-office functions, providing financial governance, in-depth analysis, and independent insights that drive smarter decisions and unlock business value.

We’re looking for a critical thinker and strategic influencer—someone who thrives on analysis, challenges the status quo, and supports business leaders with data-driven solutions.

Ready to make an impact?

Key Responsibilities:

Business Partnering:

• Builds and maintains a relationship with key stakeholders.

• Understands stakeholder needs and expectations and how and when to best engage them.

• Communicates and seeks input proactively upfront before decisions and provides advice.

• Leverages business understanding to target questions to provide stakeholders alternative perspectives and to build credibility and trust.

• Speaks up and reports to direct management when information / data seems incorrect.

Business Planning, budgeting, and Forecasting:

• Supports the weekly Agenda process including stakeholder alignment.

• Supports the Quarterly Forecasting Process.

• Supports the Annual Budget Process.

• Supports/Leads the annual Quota setting, awards, and quota P&L process.

Performance Management:

• P&L control, analysis and insight for the B&C costs

• Responsible for Month-end close B&C costs for all business franchises.

• Provides variance analysis and commentary to explain monthly results

• Provides key monthly & ad hoc performance reporting for your Franchise. E.g. KPI Review Deck

• Communicates and seeks input proactively upfront before decisions and provides advice on R&Os.

Decision Support:

• Assists in providing modelling and inputs necessary to support stakeholders in making business decisions.

• Provides timely & accurate information to enable key business decisions.

Projects:

• As identified in line with organisational goals.

• Support Franchise specific projects and initiatives.

• Support Business wide strategic initiatives.

• Support finance Strategic projects and initiatives e.g. Continuous improvement.

Team:

• Team coverage and support

• Support the education and training across the finance team

• Support the Development of financial acumen across the Franchise you support.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Critical Requirements (e.g. skills, experience, qualifications):

• Relationship building abilities.

• Takes initiative and actively problem solves.

• Good time, task and organisational management skills.

• Able to communicate and manage stakeholder expectations.

• Strong detail orientation.

• Team support and engagement.

• Technology savvy.

• Prior experience with sales bonus & commission plans/costs (highly advantageous but not critical).

Desirable Requirements (eg: skills, experience, qualifications):

• CA/CPA qualified or working towards.

• Intermediate to advanced excel knowledge with the ability to leverage advanced formulas, Macros, tools and shortcuts to efficiently and effectively analyse and provide insights on data.

• Able to create advanced Power BI reports as well as provide coaching and support to other team members.

Other requirements (e.g.: travel, on-call responsibilities):

• Travel when required