Senior Financial Analyst

Circana•,

3d•$80,000 - $100,000

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst supports Circana’s profitable growth by providing financial analysis and pricing insights. As part of the Pricing team, the analyst uses financial and operational analysis to support pricing decisions, contract renewals, commercial decision-making, and business performance. The role partners closely with Client Development on client RFPs, renewals, and pricing requests, and collaborates with Senior Leadership, Retention, Commercial Finance, Legal, Product Management, and Technology to support client relationships and accurate, timely execution. This role is suited to an experienced analyst who enjoys problem-solving, building structure, and working amid evolving processes and priorities. The successful candidate brings curiosity, initiative, sound judgment, and ownership, and is comfortable asking questions and moving work forward. Direct pricing experience is helpful but not required; candidates with backgrounds in FP&A, financial analysis, commercial finance, revenue analysis, business analysis, or related analytical work are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field from an accredited institution.
3–5 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, commercial finance, revenue analysis, business analysis, pricing, or another related analytical role.
Advanced Excel skills, including VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, PivotTables, data reconciliation, analytical reporting, and work with complex datasets.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to turn financial or operational data into clear business insights and recommendations.
Ability to take ownership of projects, workstreams, or business processes with limited oversight.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt to changing business needs, and maintain a high level of accuracy.
Experience collaborating with stakeholders across functions such as sales, finance, legal, operations, or commercial teams.
Strong communication skills and confidence asking questions, raising concerns, sharing ideas, and seeking clarity.
Curiosity, learning agility, and a proactive approach to improving processes and ways of working.
Experience working successfully in a dynamic organization with evolving priorities, processes, or responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting pricing, profitability, margin analysis, revenue, contracts, renewals, RFPs, or other commercial decisions; direct pricing experience is a plus but not required.
Experience with CPQ, CRM, financial planning, reporting, or data visualization tools.
Experience in a data, analytics, marketing, technology, subscription-based, or similarly fast-changing business.

Responsibilities

Develop financial analyses and pricing recommendations to support client decisions, profitability, and revenue growth.
Analyze pricing, margins, and business performance to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and inform decision-making.
Provide analytical support for client RFPs, contract renewals, and other pricing-related requests in partnership with Client Development and cross-functional teams.
Analyze commercial agreements to ensure Legal drafts align with approved pricing outputs.
Use the Configure, Price and Quote (CPQ) module to support revenue recognition and billing for subscription-based contracts and ad hoc projects.
Collaborate across functions to understand end-to-end pricing and contracting processes, resolve issues, and support change initiatives.
Create and maintain data quality checks, including reconciliations, exception reporting, and audit trails, to ensure pricing and contract data accuracy.
Manage multiple concurrent contract renewals, analyses, and pricing-related activities accurately and meet deadlines.
Partner with stakeholders across the business to gather information, clarify priorities, resolve issues, and support commercial decisions.
Identify opportunities to streamline manual processes, improve data quality, and enhance operational efficiency.
Prepare materials for board meetings, internal presentations, business reporting, and ad hoc financial analysis projects.