AI-Driven Deals Analytics & Value Creation Manager

Unity Advisory; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Unity Advisory is seeking a Manager in the Deals team to deliver analytics underpinning client recommendations, from due diligence to value creation. You will build models, dashboards and analyses for live transactions and value capture projects, with exposure to live deals early in your career.

The role covers Deal Readiness, Value Creation, Decision Support and Reporting Insights, with support to the FDD team as analytics expand beyond traditional reporting.

Qualifications

• Ideally, some hands-on experience in a deals, transaction services or analytics-focused role.
• Equally, we're keen to hear from academically strong candidates who've completed ACA (ICAEW or ICAS) with first-time passes, even without direct deals experience.
• Comfortable working with large datasets and providing outputs in Excel financial models, or other analytics tool.
• Good grounding in data analysis, with a genuine interest in deals and transactions.
• Strong attention to detail and confidence checking your own work under time pressure.
• Curious about AI and LLM tools and keen to apply them to real client work.
• Desirable: exposure to SQL, Python, Power BI, Alteryx or similar analytics/visualisation tools.

Responsibilities

• Turn raw client data into clean, structured datasets ready for analysis.
• Build and maintain financial models, data extracts and dashboards for buy-side and sell-side diligence engagements.
• Support exit readiness reviews by pulling together data on KPIs, business plans and the underlying data landscape.
• Carry out profitability analysis (customer, product, pricing) to help identify value creation opportunities.
• Prepare forecasting, scenario and sensitivity analysis under the guidance of Managers and Senior Managers.
• Help build reporting and dashboard tools that give clients clear visibility of performance.
• Apply AI and LLM tools to speed up and sharpen analysis.
• Support day-to-day project delivery, working closely with colleagues across the Deals team.
• Prepare slides and materials that turn analysis into clear points for client meetings.

Skills

Deals analytics

ACA certification

Excel modelling

Data analysis

AI/LLM tools

SQL

Python

Power BI

Alteryx

Education

ACA (ICAEW or ICAS)

Tools

SQL

Python

Power BI

Alteryx

Job description

Unity Advisory is seeking a Manager in the Deals team to deliver analytics underpinning client recommendations, from due diligence to value creation. You will build models, dashboards and analyses for live transactions and value capture projects, with exposure to live deals early in your career.

The role covers Deal Readiness, Value Creation, Decision Support and Reporting Insights, with support to the FDD team as analytics expand beyond traditional reporting.