Associate Director - Transaction Analytics

Queens Tower Advisory Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Queen’s Tower Advisory is seeking an Associate Director to lead analytics across buy-side and sell-side engagements, embedding data-driven insight into financial due diligence and broader deal advisory work.

You will work directly with senior leadership and private equity clients to shape tech-enabled analytics, AI tools, and scalable methods, building a differentiated analytics capability within a high-performance team.

Qualifications

• Experience in data analytics within transaction services, deal advisory, or private equity environments.
• Proven ability to link data analysis to commercial outcomes and investment decisions.
• Hands-on expertise with analytics tools (e.g. Alteryx, Python, SQL, Power BI, Tableau or similar).
• Experience working on financial due diligence or adjacent deal processes.
• A mindset that combines technical capability with commercial judgement.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics workstreams across buy-side and sell-side engagements, embedding data-driven insight into diligence.
• Translate complex datasets into clear, commercially relevant narratives that influence investment decisions.
• Partner with deal teams to identify key value drivers, risks, and performance trends.
• Oversee delivery of analytics outputs including dashboards, models, and insight packs.
• Drive the development and application of AI-enabled analytics tools and methodologies in live engagements.
• Design scalable analytics approaches that enhance speed, depth, and consistency of insight.
• Work alongside GenAI specialists to integrate automation and intelligent workflows into transaction processes.
• Identify opportunities to productise analytics capabilities across the deal lifecycle.
• Manage and mentor executives and managers within the analytics team.
• Play a key role in building a high-performing, tech-enabled analytics capability.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Support business development through analytics-led propositions and client discussions.
• Contribute to thought leadership on data-driven value creation in private equity.
• Help position Queen’s Tower as a leading analytics advisor in the market.

Skills

Data analytics

Deal advisory

Private equity

Alteryx

Python

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Tools

Alteryx

Python

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

About the role

We are seeking an Associate Director to play a key role in the continued growth of our Analytics capability. This is a leadership position for a commercially minded analytics professional who thrives in fast-paced, transaction-driven environments.

You will shape how advanced analytics, AI, and data-led insight are deployed across financial due diligence and broader deal advisory engagements - working directly with senior leadership and private equity clients.

This is an opportunity to build something genuinely differentiated: a tech-enabled analytics capability embedded within a high-performing transaction services business.

Role & responsibilities

• Client Delivery & Deal Execution
• Lead analytics workstreams across buy-side and sell-side engagements, embedding data-driven insight into diligence
• Translate complex datasets into clear, commercially relevant narratives that influence investment decisions
• Partner with deal teams to identify key value drivers, risks, and performance trends
• Oversee delivery of analytics outputs including dashboards, models, and insight packs
• Analytics & Innovation
• Drive the development and application of AI-enabled analytics tools and methodologies in live engagements
• Design scalable analytics approaches that enhance speed, depth, and consistency of insight
• Work alongside GenAI specialists to integrate automation and intelligent workflows into transaction processes
• Identify opportunities to productise analytics capabilities across the deal lifecycle
• Leadership & Team Development
• Manage and mentor executives and managers within the analytics team
• Play a key role in building a high-performing, tech-enabled analytics capability
• Foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Commercial & Growth
• Support business development through analytics-led propositions and client discussions
• Contribute to thought leadership on data-driven value creation in private equity
• Help position Queen’s Tower as a leading analytics advisor in the market

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience in data analytics within transaction services, deal advisory, or private equity environments
• Proven ability to link data analysis to commercial outcomes and investment decisions
• Hands-on expertise with analytics tools (e.g. Alteryx, Python, SQL, Power BI, Tableau or similar)
• Experience working on financial due diligence or adjacent deal processes
• A mindset that combines technical capability with commercial judgement

Critically, we are looking for individuals who are:

• Entrepreneurial and motivated by building and shaping capability
• Comfortable operating in a fast-growth, high-performance environment
• Passionate about leveraging technology and AI to redefine how work is delivered

Why Queen’s Tower Advisory

• Independence: Free from audit or financing conflicts, enabling broader, more aligned client support
• Tech-enabled delivery: AI and analytics embedded into every engagement for faster, deeper insights
• End-to-end exposure: Work across the full deal lifecycle - not just entry and exit points
• High-impact environment: Lean teams, senior exposure, and meaningful responsibility from day one
• Meritocratic growth: Progression driven by impact, not tenure
• Shared success: Equity participation and ownership at all levels, aligning individual contribution directly with the long-term success of the firm