Commercial Analyst

**Commercial Analyst**:
**Job no**: 497363

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Classification**: Band 8 (112,779 - $125,403 pa)

**Categories**: Finance, Business Strategy & Improvement

**Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong**
At City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung country such a great place to live, work and study.

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we’re building in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit **apply** - we’d love to meet you

**About the role**
In this newly created role, you will provide commercial and analytical expertise to the Commercial Lead and undertake detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of services and past financial performance to develop models that project and forecast profitability, to guide decisions the organisation will make about the role we play in delivering services into the future

Key responsibilities include:

- Support commercial activities to deliver against the commercial roadmap of service delivery reviews with detailed analysis and modelling to monitor service performance and profitability and identify investment opportunities for us to maximise our resources.
- Provide financial modelling to guide business cases, project costs and determine optimal payment and delivery schedules to support business profitability.
- Undertake business modelling to identify areas to maximise profitability and support plans to optimise service plan delivery.
- Conduct financial research to support strategic business planning across the organisation and use modelling to predict trends to support the various SCP priorities.
- Prepare and coordinate the completion of various data analytics reports to support outsourcing and insourcing decisions.
- Undertake macro trend and industry analysis to build business cases and support commercial advisory services to the organisation.

**About you**
To be successful in this role, you will have a background in data analysis and feel comfortable making informed recommendations on the back of your findings. You will have the ability to work autonomously, be creative, innovative and have a continuous improvement mindset. The ability to engage with a diverse range of people and a high level of attention to detail are vital in this role.

Essential Experience:

- Experience paying close attention to a variety of metrics and benchmarks to focus on continuous improvement.
- Ability to influence using high level communication skills.
- Highly developed conceptual, analytical and problem-solving skills in an ICT environment working with complex and/or challenging internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to manage and undertake business analysis activities involving systems and business process re-engineering in a transformation environment.
- CFA qualified professional or relevant tertiary qualification in accounting/ finance and/ or extensive experience within a finance or commercial analyst role.

**A career with us**
With flexible working options, our people have choice in how and where they work. Our employees connect with us from across the Greater Geelong region and beyond.

Central Geelong-based City employees are moving to our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.

We offer:

- flexible work arrangements including RDO options in specified work areas
- salary sacrificing and novated lease options
- cultural and ceremonial leave
- study leave
- paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
- IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement lea