Pricing Analyst

Location: North West London

Salary: £28000 - £30000/annum

Apply: http://www.cv-library.co.uk/uk-jobs/122244124/search-portugal/North-West-London-London/Pricing-Analyst-Job.html

Pricing Analyst needed: An excellent opportunity for a capable and confident pricing analyst to get involved in an exciting globally known business in the Travel industry. This powerful brand is looking for a pricing analyst to work independently as part of a procurement team to look into the business model and ensure best value is being achieved in line with the business goals.

Skills and responsibilities

Comfortable in using tools like SQL and Excel on daily basis.

Tracking pricing movement in the markets, implementing & preparing new rates into the system for key countries like UK, USA, Spain, Greece & Portugal.

Preparing rate analysis document to understand company's positions against the competition and provide them to sales team. This has resulted in generating good profit & volume for the business year on year basis.

Working closely with marketing department and give them details about specific locations and help them to spend business money into right areas.

Preparing KPI reports and updating them on a weekly basis. Highlight destinations which are struggling to achieve their monthly forecast for bookings and margins. Increase or decrease volume forecast based on current booking profile and using historic bookings to achieve more accuracy.

Highly responsible for preparing supplier's booking reports which helps to understand their performance year on year basis & try to achieve their annual targets.

Helping IT department in implementing pricing tools to achieve quick, efficient and reliable systems.

Working closely with customer service department to resolve day to day issues.

Supervising a team of 3 analysts

You must have experience of working in an analytical pricing role ideally with the reservations industry.

Parkside Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.Parkside Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

European Financial Analyst Blue Chip

Added: 16 December 2011

Location: London

Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 per annum

Apply: http://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/european-financial-analyst-blue-chip/20952851#/jobs?keywords=portuguese&sortby=RefreshedDate

A good opportunity has arisen for a qualified Financial Analyst to join a household name brand which has captured increasing market shares during the recent economical crises. They have taken their strong position into a recovering economy and hence are looking to expand their Finance function in a number of business critical areas.

The role would ideally suit an ACA, CIMA, or ACCA (or equivalent) qualified accountant with strong central finance and consolidated management accounting experience, latter will spread across a large number of European entities. The key to success in this role, however, is your commercial acumen, i.e. "to look at and analyse P&L sheets and challenge the respective countries to understand their business challenges". The ideal candidate will be fluent in another European language (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or German would be good but not essential)!!

Supporting and reporting into the Group Finance Director you will be able to demonstrate solid skills in following areas:

- Management Accounting and analysis of consolidated accounts (European entities)

- Quarterly budgeting, forecasting and re-forecasting

- Analysis and business support to the regions

- Business partnering and operational support

- Financial modelling and variance analysis

This is a rare, first class opportunity, offering career progression, a good bonus scheme and a fantastic work environment for a qualified candidate, with outstanding presentation and technical accounting skills.

Search Marketing Analyst / SEM Analyst - Portuguese

Added: 08 December 2012

Salary: Competitive Package

Apply: http://www.totaljobs.com/JobSearch/JobDetails.aspx?JobId=52225209&Keywords=portuguese&Sort=2

Job Description

Why this role is Awesome: You will use your analytical and online campaign talents to improve TripAdvisor traffic.

The Search Marketing Analyst is a vital member of the TripAdvisor team responsible for bringing thousands of people to our site every day. Located in our London office, The Search Marketing Analyst will take responsibility for gathering of actionable data from our various sources to ensure consistent and continual optimization of the campaigns, as well as the generation and dissemination of reporting to ensure that the wider team is aware of campaign performance trends.

This role will share responsibilities for our substantial presence in SEM in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.

What You'll Do:

• Building online marketing campaigns with a primary focus on paid search marketing.
• Designing, implementing, and analyzing experiments to test optimization theories, including changes in bidding strategies, keyword discovery, and creative enhancements.
• Ad hoc analysis of data and strategies to recommend performance improvements.
• Daily and weekly campaign performance reporting and analysis.
• Working with the engineering and marketing teams to identify project areas or process. enhancements to drive overall program improvements.
• Developing relationships with partners at major search engines.

Desired Skills & Experience

What We Seek:

• An interest in solving problems / genuine curiosity about how consumers make decisions.
• Experience with search engine marketing, or a quantitative field such as finance or accounting.
• Proficient language skills in Portuguese, Turkish or Arabic strongly desired.
• Quantitative thinker
• Passion for using data to make decisions
• Demonstrated analytic and problem-solving skills.
• Skill with Excel and/or Access
• Background in online advertising, paid search, e-commerce, and online travel are preferred
• Demonstrated background in mathematics, statistics, computer science/engineering, or other quantitative field
• Ability to build and develop effective relationships

In addition, the ideal candidate will demonstrate the following competencies:

• Flexible and open to change and new information; adapts behavior and work methods accordingly
• Grasps the essence of new information; recognizes own strengths and weaknesses; pursues self-development; seeks feedback.
• Exhibits integrity though fair and ethical behavior toward others and a demonstrated sense of corporate responsibility and commitment.
• Treats colleagues and partners with respect: considers and responds appropriately to the needs, feelings, and capabilities of different people
• Can be relied upon to ensure that projects within areas of specific responsibility are completed in an appropriate and timely manner and acknowledges mistakes, learns from those events and is able to move forward productively
• Identifies and analyzes problems; distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information.
• Ability to balance time to market with a solution and make the right trade-offs along the way
• Strong analytical skills: understands and utilizes metrics relevant to role
• Clear communication through expression of facts and ideas in a clear, convincing and organized manner
• Good business judgment when making decisions and always considers the relevance/impact of each decision on the business

TripAdvisor is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Contact: Click Apply

Ref: Totaljobs/SEM - Portuguese