Join our Commercial Finance team as a Senior Commercial Analyst in the Brisbane HQ for Megaport, reporting to the Commercial Manager.
This critical position plays an integral role on the Commercial Finance team in delivering commercial outcomes, supporting strategic decision-making, and ensuring alignment across globally distributed departments. With a primary focus on supporting global sales, pricing and product, the analyst will contribute to strategic sales alignment, pricing strategies, new product development, and business expansion initiatives.
What You’ll Be Doing
Commercial Support & Business Partnering: Collaborate closely with sales, legal, engineering, operations and finance teams to provide commercial insights, support strategic decision-making, and act as a trusted commercial advisor.
Deal & Pricing: Lead the deals desk and pricing strategy and operations, driving profitable solutions through deal structures, pricing, product and commercial terms, ensuring alignment with company strategies and revenue targets.
Product & Business Expansion: Lead the commercial support and evaluation of new products and commercial initiatives, collaborating with all departments to ensure pricing, compensation, commercial terms and financial operations align with company strategies.
Sales Strategy and Compensation: Support the design, analysis, and management of commission structures, ensuring alignment with company strategies and revenue targets.
Financial Reporting & Analysis: Prepare regular financial reports, including performance reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis to drive commercial success. Develop dashboards and enhanced KPI metrics to measure and support the continued success of commercial strategies.
What We Are Looking For
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field (CPA, CFA, or equivalent certification preferred).
5+ years of experience in a commercial finance or financial planning & analysis (FP&A) role, ideally within a global organisation.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex commercial concepts to non-commercial stakeholders.
Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for solving complicated commercial challenges.
Highly organised and self-motivated, capable of working independently while staying connected to a global remote team.
Experience working with sales, product, engineering and legal departments will be highly regarded.
Strong analytical skills with proficiency in financial modeling, Excel, business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Salesforce)
What We Offer
Flexible working environment – a remote-first culture with coworking options available
Generous leave plans – including, parental leave, birthday leave, and a purchased annual leave program
Health and wellness support – through a wellness allowance and employee wellbeing initiatives
Comprehensive learning support – generous study and training allowance plus paid study leave
Creative, modern workspaces – designed to inspire when you're not working remotely, plus access to coworking spaces via our global WeWork membership if you work remotely, but like to get out of the house sometimes
Motivated, inclusive team – work alongside industry experts and fresh talent
Recognition programs – celebrate achievements with our Legend and Kudos award
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
- CPA, CFA, or equivalent certification
- 5+ years experience in commercial finance or FP&A
- Experience within a global organisation (ideally)
- Excellent communication skills; able to present complex commercial concepts to non-commercial stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills and financial modelling ability
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Power BI and Salesforce (business intelligence tools)
- Highly organised and self-motivated; able to work independently within a global remote team
- Experience leading deals desk, pricing strategy and commercial terms
- Experience designing, analysing and managing sales commission structures
- Experience collaborating with sales, product, engineering and legal teams
- Ability to prepare financial reports, forecasting and variance analysis and develop KPI dashboards
What We Do
We make connectivity easy. Megaport is changing the way people, enterprises, and service providers interconnect globally. Our Software Defined Network (SDN) connects 850+ enabled data centres in 25+ countries across North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. We enable customers with fast, flexible, secure and on-demand connectivity to leading cloud, network, and managed service providers. Our Network as a Service solution offers greater agility, reduced operating costs, and increased speed to market compared to traditional connectivity options
