Commercial Finance Analyst

Company Description

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond. 

Job Description

The Role

• The Commercial Finance Analyst will play a key role in supporting the strategic finance business partnering function across all revenue‑generating areas, including Commercial, Analytics, Consulting, and Events. This position is responsible for delivering high‑quality financial analysis, supporting commercial decision‑making, and ensuring robust financial performance management. The role is part of a Sofia‑based analyst team, reporting directly to the Head of Business Partnering – Commercial.

Principal Accountabilities

Financial Analysis & Insight

• Deliver timely and accurate financial analysis, scenario modelling, and recommendations to support strategic initiatives and growth opportunities.
• Translate complex financial data into actionable insights for both finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range planning processes for all revenue‑generating functions.

Performance Reporting

• Assist in the end‑to‑end financial reporting process, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with internal and external standards.
• Monitor and analyze revenue and cost performance, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with the wider finance team to streamline and automate reporting processes, leveraging best practices and technology.
• Reflect the move to ‘SaaS metrics’ to help build sales and revenue driver models using new MI data to provide insights into causal variance analysis

Finance Partnering

• Serve as a finance partner to leaders across Commercial, Analytics, Consulting, and Marketing functions providing commercial insight and challenge to drive business performance.
• Work closely with cross‑functional teams to understand business drivers and identify opportunities for growth and efficiency.

Automation & Digital Tools

Purpose: Increase speed‑to‑insight, reduce manual work, and improve decision quality by standardising on core platforms and automations across Commercial Finance.

Core platforms cover the following areas and experience of these systems will be helpful to the application

• Anaplan (FP&A & Planning)
• Power BI (MI / Dashboards)
• NetSuite (Source Ledger)
• Salesforce & Pipeline MI
• Snowflake / Data Warehouse

Automation & Process Improvement

• Data hygiene & controls: define and run quality checks (duplicate IDs, missing dimensions, timing lags); implement exception reports and alerting for material variances before monthly close.
• Self‑service enablement: document “how‑to” guides and quick‑start pages for key dashboards; create one‑page metric definitions to reduce ad‑hoc queries and improve adoption.
• Change & decommission: identify manual reports suitable for decommission; maintain a backlog of automation candidates with estimated time saved and expected impact.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior finance leadership in Uk and Sofia alongside cross‑finance and functional teams.
• Support audit and compliance requirements, maintaining and improving internal controls.

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
 

Although the reporting line is directly to the Head of Business Partnering in the UK, there will be a local management line through the Finance Hub in Sofia, along with regular involvement with other members of Commercial finance and local Financial Control teams.

Gaining business insight from the relevant business functions to assist in optimising reporting formats and outputs will also be important as guided by the direct Management.

• Part‑qualified or qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) preferred.
• 1-2 year experience in a commercial finance, FP&A, or business partnering role
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and communicate insights clearly.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with a collaborative, proactive approach.
• Experience with finance transformation, automation, or process improvement projects is highly desirable.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills; experience with BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Anaplan) is a plus.
• Working knowledge of NetSuite (saved searches, custom reports) and Salesforce data structures; familiarity with Snowflake is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail, organisational skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.