Business Planning Senior Analyst

As our Business Planning Senior Analyst, you will deliver accurate, timely, and actionable reporting and insights to stakeholders across Sony Europe and Tokyo HQ, specifically within our Imaging Products & Solutions Pan-European Product Marketing teams and other strategic departments. Your aim will be to provide senior management with clear visibility of business performance, sales achievement, and forecast accuracy, enabling informed and timely decision-making.

Combining strong analytical, technical, and commercial skills, you will also support the development of reporting solutions, process improvements, and automation to help the business operate efficiently and with greater insight. You should be someone who seeks to go beyond the initial request from the business, seeking robust and scalable solutions to data needs and challenges.  

You will:

Lead Business Planning reporting and data management

• Develop reporting solutions based on business requirements
• Use the company’s data architecture to provide consistent, accurate, and reliable business information & insight
• Manage reports that are created by other teams to ensure quality and business requirements are met
• Provide support to internal & external teams for any data, reporting or tool-related queries

Data analysis & management reporting

• Lead weekly and monthly management reporting, including clear executive summaries for senior stakeholders
• Supporting ad-hoc business analysis requirements
• In-depth analysis of market performance data and validating future forecast predictions
• Close communication with internal/external teams to understand overall business situation and key topics of concern

You will bring:

• An ambitious, analytical, commercially astute Business Analyst
• Advanced user of Excel & PowerBI, with competency in Power Query & DAX
• Knowledge of other data analysis and manipulation tools (e.g. SQL, Python etc.) would be advantageous
• Experience with organisational data architecture (e.g. Microsoft Azure/SAP BW etc.)
• Skilled in developing effective data visualisations and storytelling through Business Intelligence tools
• Excellent organisational, time, and pressure management skills

Your new office

Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our own Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack (useful if you’ve made the most of the Cycle-to-Work scheme), or if you will use public transport we have a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between train station and the office at peak times.

Take a look at our video tour of the Weybridge site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwbMOzjoVA

Life at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.

We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.

You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.

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