Commercial Analyst

Commercial Analyst

🌏 London or Oxford

💰 From £36,000

💷 Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme

⏰ Monday – Friday 9am – 5.30pm (37.5h pw)

💖 Our perks  

• 🌏25 days holiday (rising to 28 after 3 years’ service) pro rated, plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love.  
• 🤒 Private Medical - via vitality, with reward schemes paid for you and your family.
• 🤒 Health cash plan - via Simply Health for employee's and children claiming money back for dental, optical, etc
• 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future
• 🪙Life Assurance - 4 x annual salary - benefit funded by Oodle 
• 🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit. 
• 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops. 
• 👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year. 
• ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme). 
• 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced company sick pay.   
• 👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.

🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗

Our mission is to empower our customers by delivering simple experiences, straightforward lending products, and compassionate support, from application to final payment – and beyond.

Upgrading. Growing a family. Fresh starts. Big moves. Bumps in the road. - we finance cars, but more importantly, we finance people. Since 2016, we’ve supported tens of thousands of customers on their car buying journey

As an employer, your career is important to us. We’re committed to creating an environment where you can thrive as yourself. We celebrate diversity and inclusion, actively working to make sure every team member feels supported on their journey with us. Our Talent Development team is here to support your growth, providing opportunities for learning, development, and career progression.

🙌 The Role

Commercial Analyst at Oodle Car Finance. 

🟢Location and working style

Based in either Shoreditch, London (a 3-minute walk from Old Street station) or in Milton Park, Didcot. While we operate under a hybrid working model, initial onboarding requires 3-4 office days weekly. This ensures a smooth learning curve and fosters team integration.  . 

Overview: 

We're looking for a Commercial Analyst to join our team to report into our Director of Commercial Strategy, Marketing and Partnerships. This role will give you an opportunity to dive into a world of strategic analysis, proposition development and data, all while reporting into the Commercial function - sounds exciting right?!  

You’ll work alongside some of amazing talent in the industry with a primary focus on developing the Oodle proposition to support our growth plans. Your role will be to understand commercial objectives, identify market opportunities, and translate these into initiatives that deliver business impact. 

Your impact:

• Conduct analysis and prepare materials for presentations to both internal and external stakeholders including the EXCO
• Identify, evaluate and develop commercial growth opportunities  
• Engage with key internal and external stakeholders to develop business cases and project plans in support of growth opportunities
• Project manage extensions to the Oodle proposition. Work closely with Product, Marketing and Commercial teams to ensure strong stakeholder communication and maximise the benefit of new initiatives
• Develop, co-ordinate and prepare materials tracking Oodle’s commercial delivery and the performance of growth initiatives 
• Foster strong partnerships across Oodle, ensuring that key insights, opportunities, and data are effectively communicated to a range of teams
• Be the ‘right hand’ to the Director of Commercial Strategy, Marketing and Partnerships working on high impact business deliverables 

Who you are:  

• Highly numerate analyst or graduate with a business, automotive or STEM background
• Experience within the consulting and/or automotive industries, or degrees in areas such as economics, business, statistics or the sciences. Other relevant qualifications or experience will also be considered
• A passion for identifying business trends and growth opportunities, and a genuine interest in the automotive and finance sectors
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential, as the role involves interaction with a broad range of senior stakeholders
• Analytical thinker with a natural aptitude for identifying patterns and deriving meaningful insights, with the ability to work with both quantitative and qualitative data sources
• A proactive problem solver with very high attention to detail, comfortable working both independently and collaboratively, with the ability to tackle challenges directly linked to the business’s performance
• Experience working alongside Commercial and Sales teams preferred
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint 

👩‍💻 Hiring Process

• 💻 Online Test -To be completed within 48 hours
• ☎️ Preliminary Interview (20 mins)
• 📲 Online group task (virtual 2 hours)
• 📲 Interviews (In office 2 hours)

💚 Our Values     

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of every Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.     

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger.   
• Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day.   
• Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team.   
• Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else.   
• Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do.  

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram.    

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace, and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our Oodlers who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.   

We’d love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process, please email careers@oodlefinance.com . 

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