Commercial Analyst - Urgent Position

About the role: 

At CES, we have ambitious targets to keep billions of drink containers out of landfill and transform them into resources that can be used again and again.

We are looking for a strong Commercial Analyst with Activity Based Costing and SaaS industry experience to help us prepare for the next stage of our scale-up lifecycle. As the first dedicated Commercial Analyst at CES you will play a pivotal role in shaping our future success by providing reporting, business insights and strategic recommendations to help drive efficiency and productivity and improve financial outcomes across the business.  

Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you’ll partner primarily with our Finance and IT teams to facilitate accurate cost tracking, identify investment areas, and prevent revenue leakage across BAU and project activities.   

You’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders to deeply understand cost and revenue drivers, improve accuracy of activity-based costing, and employ allocation methods tailored to our SaaS product-and-service based business model.   

If you are an experienced Commercial Analyst and you want to use your strong stakeholder engagement skills and commercial acumen to have a significant impact on company growth in a sector that really makes a difference, this could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for!  

The key deliverables of the role:

• Deliver commercial insights and recommendations to management (including executive level) regarding opportunities, risks and actions for business enhancement.
• Build an in-depth understanding of business operations, conducting analyses of cost and revenue drivers of products and services and enabling commercial decisions based on true cost to serve.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and drive opportunities for cost optimisation and revenue leakage mitigation and ensure accurate capture of costs per Activity Based costing.
• Regular reporting, analysis and monitoring of key metrics and business targets for resource management, revenue and SaaS Platform overages, using business intelligence tools (Power BI).  
• Analysis of large value vendor contracts, providing value-add insights for commercial decision-making, and supporting compliance with contractual obligations.
• Track and maintain project estimates, ensuring accuracy of rates, budgets, resource allocation and costs.
• Build strong relationships across departments, supporting business areas as required eg forecasting and variance analysis for Finance.

About you:

• 5+ years’ experience in a Finance or Commercial Analyst role (or similar).
• Experience with Activity-Based Costing models is a must-have.
• Experience as a Commercial or Finance Analyst in a software development company/sector would be a strong advantage
• Analytical thinker with a curious mindset and strong commercial acumen.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to extract and present commercial insights from financial data.
• Familiarity with commercial contracts.
• Strong communication, influencing, and interpersonal skills across all business levels.
• Self-starter, able to work well autonomously and in teams
• Resilient and adaptable to change in a dynamic environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Statistics, Economics, or equivalent experience (CPA/CA qualifications preferred).

Bonus points for:

• Familiarity with business intelligence tools like Power BI an advantage!
• Experience in a similar SaaS and/or managed services business
• Previous exposure using Jira and Tempo

Why work with us?

• We are an IT-led organisation with a high performing team working for purpose - what we do positively impacts communities and the environment.
• We offer flexible working arrangements to help you fit work around your life - for the days in the office, we have beautiful harbour views, and convenient location close to public transport in North Sydney. 
• We are growing, so there are lots of development and learning opportunities.

About CES  

Accelerating the transition to a circular economy 

We are proud to be an active contributor in the circular economy through container deposit schemes (10c refund for eligible drink containers). We help our scheme partners to recycle close to 10 million drink containers every day, diverting them from landfill into the circular economy. 

Our technology and services enable the circular lifecycle of drink containers. We have a large in-house software engineering team using modern technology stacks to develop and support our products. As well as a suite of SaaS products, our range of business services includes accounting, payments, brand & marketing, materials trading, HR, customer service and support. 

CES was formed in 2017 as a joint venture between Lion and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and has grown rapidly. We are headquartered in North Sydney, near public transport with beautiful harbour views. Our teams are passionate about our mission to ensure valuable materials are recycled and not wasted. We provide an inclusive culture, hybrid and flexible working and career development to bring the best out in our people. 

Originally known as Container Exchange Services, we have rebranded to Circular Economy Systems to recognise our vision to be leaders in the transition to a circular economy. 

To learn more, please visit our website: https://circulareconomysystems.com and follow our LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/company/circulareconomysystems for industry and company updates!  

NOTE:  We can only consider candidates with full Australian work rights in place; no agencies please!