Business & Commercial Analyst

Role: Business & Commercial Analyst

Company: SEGA Europe Ltd

Location: Building 12, Chiswick Business Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5AN

Job Summary

As a Business & Commercial Analyst, you will primarily be responsible for the financial planning and analysis processes across various business units. You will be responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting, and tasked with analysing figures from sales to profit and providing these insights to the various business units. Specifically, you will work with the Associate Business Planning Director and the Head of Commercial Analysis on implementing the financial analysis, collaborating closely with the Business Planning team in Sega of America.

This role would suit someone with 5+ years of experience in financial planning, analytics, or insights, and would favour someone with strong organizational and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

Specifically, you will:

• Work with the Associate Business Planning Director and the Head of Commercial Analysis on implementing the financial analysis.
• Analyse financial data and provide projections and financial models.
• Analyse P&L and share valuable insights with business units to drive business performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of financial goals with business objectives.
• Create a project P&L by communicating with project stakeholders.
• Create budget and forecast management process.
• Support the tracking and auditing of sales versus commercial expectations, and targets.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• 5+ years of business finance or other relevant experience.
• Knowledge of data analysis and forecasting methodology.
• Knowledge of general accounting and financial planning.
• Strong attention to detail, and organisational skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral; Able to articulate complex concepts clearly and concisely.
• Expert in Microsoft Excel with experience in PowerPoint.
• A self-motivated individual able to excel both independently and collaboratively on other stakeholder's projects.
• Be able to adapt to the company’s working from office guidelines. (3+ days working from office)

Desirable

• Passionate about video games with a good understanding of genres and key video game concepts.
• Knowledge in using visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau or similar).
• Knowledge in database querying (SQL).
• Prior experience in video games / entertainment industry.
• Japanese language at intermediate/expert level

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

At SEGA, we celebrate diversity and believe in a diverse, inclusive, and equitable world in which everyone feels valued and respected regardless of what they look like or where they come from. Whether you’re a prospective employee or a full-time member of staff, we want you to feel involved and supported in all aspects of our work and to have amazing opportunities during your time with us regardless of your background. We welcome people regardless of age, race, ethnicity, disability, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, neurotype, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave.

SEGA is a place where staff have a voice which is integral to our success as a business. Our inclusive, passionate people are empowered to educate, inform, and build awareness through our inclusion and wellbeing staff led values groups which include DEN (Disability Employee Network), RISE (Reinforcing Inclusion through Solidarity and Equality), Women at SEGA, PRIDE, SEGA Minds (group supporting mental health), Momiji (group that celebrates our Japanese heritage, language, and culture) and VIBE (our social and engagement committee).