Commercial Financial Analyst II (Financial Modelling and Advanced Excel Skill Essential) at Mimecast

What you'll do

In this role you will provide financial management, analytics, financial modelling and support to the global partner team. You'll need to be a finance professional seeking a unique opportunity to leverage strong analytic, interpersonal, and business acumen to work within a world class organization providing leadership and support to our partner business. You'll need to understand basic revenue and expense recognition and Go-To-Market motions especially those pertaining to the partner eco-system and SAAS industry. As well as:

• Be the consolidation point for the theatre and global finance teams related to budgets, capacity models, commissions, headcount, headcount ratios/yields, forecast models and opex.
• Build new and maintain existing financial models to support strong decision making within commercial finance and partner originations
• Collate, monitor, analyse and educate on value drivers (“Metrics/KPIs”) of the global partner organization
• Collate, monitor and analyse business data pertaining to commercial activities and report back to all internal stakeholders e.g., target performance, pipeline health/growth and accuracy in partner and sales forecasting
• Collaborate cross-functionally in an effort to achieve commercial finance goals in support of corporate finance goals
• Ensure all commercial activities meet or improve on budget, cost, volume and efficiency targets for short- and long-term plans of the theatres
• Monitor market and existing partner and customers risk and opportunity trends with the aim to growing and retaining revenue, both from a customer perspective and product perspective
• You are required to work and be flexible across global time zones within reason

What you'll bring

• Bachelor in finance or equivalent finance qualification
• Experience in corporate finance or another role that requires financial planning and analytics
• Great analytical & problem-solving skills
• Financial modelling/advanced Excel skills
• Strong detail orientation
• Strong business plan positioning and presentation skills
• Ability to work independently and cross-functionally in a fast paced, high growth environment
• Demonstrated communication skillset (written and verbal)
• Strong personal skills – you will be meeting with colleagues of all levels and in varied departments of the company
• Strong professional work ethic and extremely high integrity
• A passion for making things better
• Basic understanding of accounting, budgeting and forecasting (Headcount, Opex, Capex) and its impact on P&L and Free cashflow