Senior Sales Operations Analyst (Power BI and Salesforce)

Senior Sales Operations Analyst, Asia Commercial Finance- Noida

The Company:

Cognex is the global leader in the exciting and growing field of machine vision. Our employees, proudly called Cognoids,” take their work seriously, but don't take themselves seriously. Our Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast culture recognizes our employees for their innovation, perseverance and hard work in a fun and rewarding environment.

The Role:

The Senior Sales Operations Analyst, Asia Commercial Finance is responsible for the data integrity and analytical support to various business stakeholders such as Sales and Marketing. This position is based in Noida, India. This position focuses on delivering proactive, action-oriented business partnerships and insights as well as accurate and dynamic financial plans to support high-quality business growth. This role is responsible for partnering with the Regional Sales in India to drive business success, including achievement of regional bookings and operating margin goals.

Essential Functions:

• Provide data and analytic support for various sales activities such as Sales forecast & planning, Sales booking & commission data, and KPI and related deep dives.
• Acting as Salesforce and Power BI system administrator including user access setup & basic training, data integrity, and diagnose and resolve various kinds of issues.
• Conduct business analysis and generate reports per requirements through Salesforce and Power BI.
• Support the financial planning and analysis process for Asia Sales and Marketing, delivering accurate budgets, forecasts, and actionable insights to guide decision-making.
• Utilize sales and marketing performance dashboards and KPIs to generate actionable insights and assess root causes of business challenges, propose innovative solutions to business leaders, and proactively drive countermeasures.
• Continuously analyze business performance and proactively identify opportunities to drive improved financial results.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve existing processes and procedures.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Highly proficient in SAP BI, excel, and Power BI
• Superuser experience of Salesforce or equivalent CRM system
• Strong business acumen and commercial strategy skills
• Strong executive presentation and interaction skills
• Strong attention to detail to produce consistent, high-quality results
• Demonstrated initiative to implement process improvement
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to work productively in a cross-functional team environment
• Comfortable raising different point of view

Minimum education and work experience required:

• B.S. degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Business Management or Finance-related field
• 5+ years’ progressive finance and/or sales operation / business intelligence related experience
• Experience with Power BI and Salesforce is preferred
• 2+ year business partner experience is preferred (partner with sales or commercial function is preferred)
• Project leading experiences (business strategic experience is preferred)