Xbridge Background
This is an excellent opportunity to join the UKs leading online finance and insurance business aimed at the small business market. Simply Business helps thousands of businesses every day to find the best financing and insurance to suit their needs. You can see the site in action at: www.simplybusiness.co.uk.
Simply Business is a part of Xbridge Ltd, Europes leading provider of business finance and insurance platforms to the banking and insurance industries. Xbridge works with 3 out of the 4 UK High St banks and the 2 of the largest UK insurers, providing infrastructure and online marketing consultancy.
This is a brand new position within the analysis and search team suitable for a recent graduate with a strong analytical and technical background. The role will involve a large amount of reporting and interpretation of data. As such, knowledge of excel and the ability to understand and process large quantities of data is required. The analysis and search team supports the whole of the business in terms of the provision of management information and business analysis. The team aids the business decision process and because it uniquely works with all areas of the business this is a great opportunity to build experience within the insurance, finance and marketing sectors.
Position: Reporting Analyst
You will be a highly motivated and professional person. You will be used to working quickly with large amounts of data and having to identify what is important. You will have a high level of attention to detail and be good at spotting errors hidden amongst the data. You will be patient and good at dealing with members of the business teams and understanding requests from a reporting and management information point of view.
The role mainly involves:
Provision of management information
Daily and weekly reports to measure the performance of the insurance sales centre in terms of number of policies sold, amount of premium written
Weekly and monthly reporting to track the volume of users requesting a quote, and tracking where these users are coming from
Producing all the monthly management figures that are used by the management team to measure business performance
Logging sales that are sold on behalf of our lending team and tracking changes to the profile of businesses being written
Providing one off snap shots of insurer by insurer analysis
Providing reporting support to the search marketing team
Producing weekly and monthly reports for Xbridge Pay-Per-Click activities per vertical and partner
Produce weekly and monthly ROI+ reports for XBs own brand, Simply Business. This (and the above) is done combining data from a bid management tool and the internal reporting system
Assist Pay-Per-Click with in-depth analysis on certain verticals or partners (down to keyword level) on ROI or volume basis
Assist the natural search efforts with the collating and understanding of our search term rankings
Invoicing & Pay Aways
Carry out the invoicing for the business teams
Track the issuing of invoices and liaising with the finance manager to ensure that financial and analysis numbers match
Calculating the revenue owed to partners on a monthly basis
Required Experience
Degree in analytical related subject (e.g mathematics, science, economics, business etc)
Good knowledge of Excel
Experience of analysis in a business environment desirable
Compensation / package
Base £25k (commensurate with experience)
Quarterly performance based-bonus
Excellent company benefits including comprehensive private health plan
Please email your CV to our Human Resources department at careers@xbridge.com or fax it to 020 7920 8088. Please include cover letter and expected salary.
Recruitment Agents are not invited to contact us regarding these or future roles. Thank you.