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Financial Analyst, Commercial Strategy

New York, New York, United States

Commercial Strategy Analyst

Role Overview: Weber Shandwick is seeking a dynamic and strategic Commercial Strategy Analyst to support pricing and negotiation strategies for new and existing client opportunities, both locally and globally. This role is not just about data analysis—it requires a strategic mindset to proactively interpret data, call out key insights, and contribute to client strategy and offerings. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, handling multiple client requests, including urgent priorities, while working cross-functionally across various teams.

This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the intersection of finance, commercial strategy, and client development, shaping pricing structures and negotiation strategies that drive business growth. The Analyst will play a critical role in supporting business decisions and ensuring efficiency in commercial operations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Serve as a strategic business analytics partner and forward-thinking business analytics resource for new business opportunities and existing client accounts.
  • Analyze financial and business data, calling out key trends and implications to inform strategic decision-making.
  • Manage & analyze financial reports to support profitability and remuneration strategies.
  • Aggregate financial figures from SAP and Hyperion systems.
  • Handle multiple client requests, including urgent and complex pricing scenarios, with a solutions-oriented mindset.
  • Collaborate with Finance, New Business Development, Project Management, Account teams, and other departments globally to align pricing strategies with client needs.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to facilitate effective dialogue with senior management and cross-functional teams throughout the organization.
  • Review and assist with RFIs/RFPs, ensuring pricing and commercial terms align with strategic objectives.
  • Monitor and validate rate cards, SOWs, and MSAs to ensure pricing accuracy and compliance with client agreements.
  • Proactively identify rate discrepancies and opportunity for rate increases in commercial agreements and suggest strategic adjustments.
  • Develop and maintain global and local data repositories, ensuring accurate and insightful reporting for decision-making.
  • Complete Client-related Pricing/Reporting Templates, as required.
  • Summarize data and changes to MSAs for our top 20 clients in decks to update and share with Client Finance and Local Finance teams.
  • Liaise with global teams to pull financial and MSA data to identify opportunities for growth.
  • Proficient in understanding Global Agency title mapping and structures.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • 3+ years of experience in a financial, strategic, or commercial analysis role (agency experience preferred).
  • Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills—able to go beyond numbers and translate data into actionable insights.
  • Highly proactive and resourceful, with a keen ability to anticipate challenges and address them when providing data summaries and analyses.
  • Exceptional ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong collaboration skills—able to work effectively across finance and non-finance teams globally.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to summarize data concisely and present insights to senior stakeholders.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with very strong Excel skills (lookups, pivots, dashboards, advanced formulas, etc.).
  • SAP and Hyperion background preferred.
  • Strong ownership mentality—someone who takes initiative, sees projects through, and ensures high-quality execution.
  • Strong time management skills, including the ability to prioritize multiple deadlines.
  • Ability to anticipate problems, analyze situations, and proactively develop solutions.
  • Comfortable with a hybrid work environment, with some onsite presence required.

Why Join Us? This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on global, high-impact projects, collaborating with top-tier professionals across multiple business units. You’ll gain exposure to executive-level decision-making and play a key role in shaping commercial strategies that directly drive business success. If you are a proactive, strategic thinker who thrives in a fast-moving, team-oriented environment, we want to hear from you!

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k (with employer match)
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Juice Money - $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
  • MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Paid Employee Family Leave
  • Family Building Benefit

NYC Salary range: $65,000 - $80,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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