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date title
23/09/10
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  Business Analyst
Microsoft
London

Business Analyst
- Partner directly with the MSA UK Sales team to provide relevant, timely business analysis. Focus on consistency, accuracy and simplicity. This might include:
Performance reports to support Monthly Business Review
Ad hoc troubleshooting of network campaign delivery and performance issues
KPI monitoring
- Build & manage reporting tools including:
Forecasting and Budgeting Tool - the tool used to build revenue forecasts and budgets as part of our financial planning rhythm
AdMarket Campaign Reporting Tools - manage and update multiple reporting tools to provide easy access to analytical tools for Sales
Create ad-hoc new reports as required by querying our database servers
- Understand and provide simple explanations and solutions to sometimes deeply complex issues surrounding technology algorithms
- Evaluate sales metrics, work with the responsible groups to ensure these metrics and reporting are defined and timed to meet business needs. Design and produce additional business metrics and reporting where required to track sales performance against key goals and to facilitate decision making
- Provide timely response to business partners’ queries and issues. Educate them where appropriate to better understand key metrics, issues and reporting
- Provide analytical and business insight for inputs to the product development process; help to define next generation product features, algorithms, and reporting capabilities

Key Success Criteria
- Excellent relationship with your key customers, the monetization team and team leaders from across the UK and global business.
- Ability to condense complex information and large amounts of data in to simple, actionable insights.
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to learn the complexities of our network algorithm and quickly recall how one factor affects an other
- Ability to adapt quickly in a dynamic business environment and to deliver quality results as part of a team

Reference: 716952 -IRWX
Qualifications: Bachelors
Experience: 5 years +
Languages: English : Speak / Write Fluently
Job-Type: open-ended
Remuneration: unspecified
Permit Type: EU National
Region: London
1) Essential Experience
- Experience within a corporate environment preferably with in the media industry
- Experience in data mining and analytics
- Experience working with Sales professionals is preferred

2) Technical / Functional Skills
- Advanced excel skills are a must
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong VBA (excel) & SQL skills

3) Personal Attributes / Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to prioritise demands to maximise results
- Excellent communication skills, to be comfortable partnering/ presenting findings
- Flexibility to switch from a close attention to detail to seeing the bigger picture, as required to achieve the best results
- Cross-group collaboration

4) Qualifications
Educated to degree level or equivalent

At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We run our business in much the same way, and believe our three core business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are: Platform Products and Services Division: Includes the Client Group, the Server & Tools Group, and the Online Services Group. Business Division: Includes the Information Worker Group, the Microsoft Business Solutions Group, and the Unified Communications Group. Entertainment and Devices Division: Includes the Home & Entertainment Group and the Mobile & Embedded Devices Group

We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.

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