Pricing and Modelling Analyst

Full time, Permanent

Milton Keynes - Hybrid (3 days in the office)

Closing date: 02nd April

Our Pricing Team have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Analyst to join us and support with forecasting future pricing trends, developing pricing models and ultimately contribute to the strategic direction of the business.

You will be responsible for taking economic and market data and combining this with your own research and portfolio analysis to forecast remarketing trends, identify emerging challenges, and recommend a variety of mitigating strategies while being able to outline the potential risks and rewards of each.

We're known for our amazing culture here at VWFS and are featured as one of the top places to work in the UK for that very reason. If you are self-motivated, organised and have experience working with big data using Excel and Tableau.

What's in it for you?

A salary ranging from £29,245 subject to experience and working 35 hours per week. You'll also receive an excellent benefits package including tax efficient company car from day one, 27 days holiday, pension, access to various health & wellbeing services, private medical insurance after 6 months as well as career progression, professional development and access to LinkedIn Learning.

What you will be doing:

• You will collate economic, market and portfolio analysis to understand underlying, developing, and likely future trends that will affect remarketing strategy and vehicle pricing.
• Developing Management Information (MI) to inform the remarketing process and for distribution to senior stakeholders across the business using MS Excel, Tableau and other analytical systems as appropriate.
• You will take ownership of pricing model monitoring & development work, including responsibility to maintain, adapt, and develop the remarketing pricing model to achieve greater accuracy.
• Identifying emerging challenges from the portfolio and wider market, and recommend actions to mitigate those.
• Supporting the pricing process through provision of analysis and insight to inform key decisions.
• You will manage Remarketing data flows between systems and departments and be responsible for liaising with key stakeholders for additional data requests.
• Providing insightful commentary to give context to observations and developing trends, bringing together a developed understanding of remarketing processes.

This is what you will bring to the role:

• You will have proven experience using Microsoft Excel and Tableau.
• Solid commercial experience of the automotive finance industry.
• You can demonstrate your analytical skills and creative thought processes.
• Ability to own tasks and manage concurrent operational requirements with varying deadlines.
• You are self-motivated and adaptable to change with excellent organisational skills and initiative.
• Proven ability to translate high level ideas into deliverable concepts.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills that can engage and influence the audience whilst being able to respond to opposing views at all levels.
• High attention to detail, quality, consistency and accuracy.

About Volkswagen Financial Services

Our mission is straightforward, we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. What does that mean? To make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

Volkswagen Financial Services is committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from everyone. Diversity and Inclusion is not just a statement for us and we are nurturing an environment where everyone can be their 100% self. If there is anything we can do to support you being your 100% self during our recruitment process, please let us know and we will support you as best we can.