Job Title: Commercial Analyst
Location: Farnborough, England
Salary: Up to £45,000 FTE
Contract type: Temporary – 3 Months
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3 Month Contract – Immediate Start
As Commercial Analyst for ARO, you are critical to ensuring ARO’s ongoing profitability, by identifying missed billing revenues, and reduce unnecessary cost of sales. You will systematically analyse product billing areas, such as connectivity, cloud hosting, and then identify areas where billing has been missed, under-charged, or where there are unnecessary supplier costs which should removed.
In this exciting opportunity, you’ll analyse large volumes of billing and supplier data to identify missed revenue, incorrect rates, and areas of excess cost. Your insights will have a direct impact on business performance, helping to optimise processes, eliminate unnecessary expenses, and ensure billing accuracy. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to support cost-saving initiatives and update ARO systems, streamlining future analysis. If you’re analytical, inquisitive, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you.
This is a temporary role ongoing for 3 months. You will support business workstream leads who are tasked with realising additional profit, and provide them the data, analysis and data processing to achieve their goals.
Please note that this is a Hybrid role with onsite requirement 2 -3 days a week. You must be able to commute to the office in Farnborough.
- Identify missed billing or cost saving areas
- Match billing and supplier costs to identify gaps requiring further investigation.
- Your measured of success will be profit identified, and data investigated.
- Share data with workstream leads and other project stakeholders in presentable and manageable formats.
- Track the status of high volumes of data, to understand what work has been complete, what is in progress, and what is outstanding.
- Track identified savings, either as “potential” unverified savings, or savings which have been verified by finance.
- With training, systematically investigate areas of potential savings by accessing ARO systems, and analysing supplier reporting.
- Once investigation has been completed, update ARO systems with any missing data, so analysis can be completed more efficiently the next time.
- Collaborate closely with project workstream leads, finance leads and the wider business to ensure all target product lines are investigated and no profit missed.
Requirements
Essential
- 2+ years in an equivalent commercial analytical role.
- 2+ years in commercial environment and understand billing, supplier costs, profit maximisation.
- Experience with managing and processing larger data sets to match data, identify inconsistencies, track progress and provide summary reports.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with others.
- Advanced MS Excel user, particularly data processing and management.
- Analytical.
- Methodical, so nothing is missed.
- Inquisitive, where investigation is required sometimes the data is not easily available, so you are able to find a way to get it.
Desirable
- Experience working in an IT environment.
- Experience in revenue assurance or equivalent role.
- Understanding of business IT products e.g. telephony, connectivity etc.
Benefits
Who are we?
ARO has 25 years’ experience in Collaboration, Connectivity, Cloud and Infrastructure and Cyber Security services both in the UK and Internationally and has a nationwide presence with offices across the UK.
As one of the UK’s leading independent IT and communication experts our mission is to deliver a seamless technology experience to all end users. To make that vision a reality, we need bright, tenacious and inspiring talent to help drive our performance, growth and achieve this mission.
To make us successful we focus on strong communication, a culture based on fun, trust and collaboration. We have created a modern workplace environment, which is full of engaged, energetic, positive and curious people whose productivity, resilience and wellbeing allow them to thrive.
In 2021 we were awarded the People Insight’s Outstanding Workplace Award, which celebrates organisations building positive workplace cultures and acting on employee feedback to spark positive change.
Why Work for ARO?
At ARO we are committed to creating an excellent employee experience. Our employees, culture and additional benefits all make ARO a great place to work. Come join us!
We offer a wide range of benefits and incentives to our employees including:
- ‘Design Your Life’ training and development programme
- Flexible working
- Company Pension Scheme and matching contributions
- Company Perks portal
- Private Medical insurance
- Life assurance
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus holiday trading
- Your Birthday off, on us!
- Health Club and Wellbeing Scheme
- ARO Shares after 12 months employment
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Technical Training Academy and E-learning
If even 80% of this matches your experience and attributes, we would be delighted to hear from you.
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