Wednesday 2 November 2011

Rackspace Pricing Analyst Job Vacancy in San Antonio, TX

Job Details
Pricing Analyst - US - 14310
Job TitlePricing Analyst - US
Category Accounting/Finance
Requisition # 14310
Location US-TX-San Antonio-CSTL San Antonio, TX 78218, US
Education Bachelor's Degree

Job Description
We are seeking a Pricing Analyst to perform analyses on pricing trends, consumer habits, and product costs to drive key business decisions through financial data. Prepares data models, reports, forecasts and analyses on industry and general economic trends.

Responsibilities:
- Review and approve pricing on strategic deals analyzing profitability under various scenarios.
- Assist in creating pricing policy decisions and in testing the market.
- Create new pricing models and updates to existing product line models.
- Performs profitability analysis.
- Validate results of pricing strategies.
- Prepare and create customer and product profitability analysis.
- Assist in creating new systemic tools to approve pricing models.
- Produce deal metrics.
- Lead analyst meetings.
- Create purchase order activity reports and researches spend reports.
- Share knowledge and be a mentor to other analysts.
- Drive Rackspace Culture.

Job Requirements

The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Advance technical knowledge financial systems modeling (Oracle, Hyperion, Excel), forecasting and analysis processes.
- Advance understanding of overall financial function and interrelated components.
- Advance understanding of product valuation and pricing analysis.
- Ability to create most complex forecasting models.
- Must also possess high attention to detail and be capable of performing most complex data analysis for extended periods of time.
- Expert Excel skills required.
- Must have advanced presentation skills, ability to express most complex quantitative concepts to non-financial audience.
- Advance communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Must be a strategic, analytical thinker who can execute vision and communicate results very effectively while inspiring those around them.
- Must be interested in driving and maintaining a great culture.
- Must be an information sharer, and work well across functional departments.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to make appropriate decisions considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions.
- Ability to successfully work and promote inclusiveness in small groups.
- Bachelor's degree required in business, finance or a related field.
- MBA or CFA desirable.
- 3 to 5 years of experience in financial, pricing, economic, and/or business analysis or a related field.
- Hyperion and Oracle experience required.
- Prefer SQL experience, or VB Excel.
- Economics and Statistics backgrounds welcomed.
- Demonstrated ability to consistently provide FANATICAL support.

Rackspace, a world leader in hosting delivers enterprise-level managed hosting, cloud hosting, and e-mail hosting services to businesses of all types and sizes globally. Today we serve thousands of customers from data centers around the world. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies and practices for each customer's specific needs delivering it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support®. We serve as an extension of our customers' IT departments enabling them to focus on their core business. Rackspace was founded in 1998 and since then has had significant growth year after year. There are now over 3,000 Rackers employed worldwide dedicated to providing customers our premier hosting services.

Rackspace Hosting is an Equal Opportunity Employer

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employee assigned to this job.

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