Advanced Specialist, Commercial Finance

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🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $115k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Pearson VUE

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

Education • eCommerce • SaaS

Pearson VUE is a global leader in computer-based testing, providing a wide range of credentialing and certification exams for various industries. They support test-takers and test owners by offering resources, scheduling options, and accommodations to ensure equitable access to testing. Their mission is to empower candidates and enrich communities through the delivery of high-stakes exams that validate professional skills and knowledge, contributing to career advancement and industry standards.

📋 Description

• Support high-impact commercial decisions through financial modelling, pricing strategy, and deal optimisation • Partner closely with the Deal Desk, Finance, and cross-functional stakeholders • Own financial models, support pricing strategy, and enable data-driven decision-making • Act as the analytical backbone of the Deal Desk function • Build, evaluate, and maintain detailed financial models supporting new business opportunities, renewals, and complex commercial deal structures • Analyse key performance drivers including margin, revenue per student, pricing structures, and cost base to assess overall financial sustainability • Manage deals throughout the full lifecycle, coordinating inputs, pressure-testing assumptions, and ensuring timely movement through approval stages • Develop and model pricing scenarios for both new and existing products • Partner with the Deal Desk leadership to build and enhance product-level costing frameworks and margin infrastructure • Deliver ongoing reporting and insights related to pricing performance, deal outcomes, profitability trends, and key financial drivers • Evaluate ad-hoc pricing requests and support non-standard or complex commercial structures • Identify and implement process improvement initiatives to enhance Deal Desk scalability, governance, and operational efficiency • Own the integrity and accuracy of deal inputs and outputs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field • 3–6+ years of relevant professional experience, including exposure to pricing, deal desk, or commercial finance environments • Strong financial modelling capability, with the ability to independently build and maintain models in Excel • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced, cross-functional environment • Strong analytical and commercial mindset, with a high level of attention to detail and data accuracy • Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders such as Sales, Finance, and Operations • Ability to translate complex financial data into clear, structured insights and recommendations • Experience working with large or complex datasets, and structuring models to support ongoing analysis • Exposure to tools such as Tableau, Alteryx, or other data visualisation/workflow tools is advantageous • Strong problem-solving capability and proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

🏖️ Benefits

• This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program • Information on benefits offered is here.