Senior Pricing and Commercial Analyst

Introduction
At IBM work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The role is for a Senior Pricing and Commercial Analyst to support the client Account Group and to provide financial and commercial management to parts of the client portfolio. Working for the Account Group taking direction from and providing support to the Lead Commercial Manager is a great opportunity to be a critical partner to the Consulting business see the breadth of financial operations within IBM and have a direct impact on the financial performance of one of UK Consulting’s biggest Account GroupsTasks and responsibilities include:

• Maintain complex pricing models and work with the business to create pricing models that can be used for executive release approvals;
• Generate financial metric reports from IBM’s bespoke pricing tool and understand how to maximize financial performance;
• Innovate pricing processes to ensure best practice across Account Groups;
• Management and reporting of portfolio financials including adherence to complex contractual Ts and Cs;
• Project forecasting and scenario analysis;
• Profitability analysis and leadership of profit improvement initiatives;
• Client Invoicing revenue and cost accruals;
• Cash collection and debt management.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Provides project support through ownership and management of project documentation and facilitation of project team communications.
• Sets up the project control book enters data tracks issues and changes produces status reports and handles financial and procurement transactions.
• Supports general contract management through asset management audit readiness financial process support issues management measurements reporting project plan execution and where applicable request for service.
• Duties of a project administrator include all aspects of facilitating a project: scheduling meeting times and locations taking meeting minutes developing presentations and arranging training for project staff.
• In addition the project administrator participates in budget administration providing analysis keeping records and forecasting financial performance.
• IT project administrators may work closely with other corporate departments such as HR and legal.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Commercial experience