Data Analyst

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

We are seeking a curious and commercially minded Data Analyst to join our Finance & Analytics team. You will help the business understand performance across Sales, Marketing and Finance by producing reliable reporting, analysing trends and supporting planning and forecasting.

This is a great opportunity for someone early in their analytics career who is confident working with data and wants to develop commercial and financial knowledge in a fast-paced business. You will work closely with the Analytics & Reporting Manager and gain exposure to senior stakeholders across the company.

In this role you will gain; 

• Hands-on development in SQL, Tableau, Excel and commercial analytics.
• Exposure to Sales, Marketing, Finance and senior business stakeholders.
• Training and support to develop financial planning, forecasting and commercial analysis skills.

Key responsibilities

• Support the creation and maintenance of Sales, Marketing and company performance KPIs.
• Produce regular reporting on revenue, sales activity, marketing performance, customer behaviour and other commercial measures.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting in Tableau.
• Use SQL Server and Excel to extract, analyse and validate data from multiple systems.
• Support analysis of performance against budget, forecast and prior year.
• Help identify key trends, opportunities and risks, presenting findings clearly to stakeholders.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes.
• Partner with Sales and Marketing teams to assess campaign, pipeline, conversion and return-on-investment performance, constructively challenging assumptions and outcomes where required.
• Use AI tools responsibly to improve analysis, automate repeatable tasks and identify more efficient ways of working.
• Work with Salesforce and other systems to improve reporting quality and consistency.
• Help maintain accurate KPI definitions, reporting documentation and data checks.
• Respond to ad-hoc analysis requests and contribute to wider Finance & Analytics projects.

Qualifications

It is essential that candidates have; 

• Some experience in a data, reporting, finance, commercial or business-analysis role; graduate experience, placements or relevant projects are welcome.
• Good Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables and data manipulation.
• Basic to intermediate SQL skills, ideally SQL Server.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI or another reporting/visualisation tool.
• Comfort in working with numbers and able to spot trends or inconsistencies in data.
• Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to problem-solving.
• Good communication skills and the confidence to explain findings clearly.
• Organised, proactive and keen to learn.

Additional skills and experience that would be advantageous; 

• Experience using Salesforce or another CRM system.
• Exposure to budgeting, forecasting or finance reporting.
• An interest in Sales, Marketing or commercial performance.
• Basic knowledge of Python, VBA, AI tools or reporting automation.
• Experience working with customer, digital, ecommerce or subscription data.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.