Financial Modelling Assistant Manager

ukgrantt; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Reduced hours

Job summary

Grant Thornton in the United Kingdom is seeking an Assistant Manager in Financial Modelling to develop and review client financial models for forecasting and business planning. You will contribute to model design, run analyses, and liaise with clients across advisory services.

The role involves working on transactions, restructurings, valuations, and related projects within a supportive team culture that values growth, flexibility, and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• ACA or CA qualified (or equivalent) with a strong track record in professional exams.
• Excellent Excel proficiency and a keen interest in learning more.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent, preferably in a numerate degree subject.
• Interest in business issues and corporate finance.
• Highly numerate with strong communication skills, and able to explain complex and technical matters to others in plain language.
• Strong accounting skills and understanding of cash and working capital cycles.
• Logical approach to problem-solving, attention to detail.
• Any proficiency or experience with VBA programming or PowerBI.
• Prior experience of working with complex financial models or transactional work.

Responsibilities

• Develop financial models and other tools for clients to use for forecasting and business planning.
• Review financial models built by clients and their advisers and compile initial views and findings.
• Update and run financial models to provide analysis to support the firm's wider deliverables (e.g. in Valuations, Insolvency, or Forensics situations).
• Contribute to model design discussions and preparing drafts of model specification documents.
• Use and adapt models to perform sensitivity and scenario analysis for deals and restructuring.
• Understand the results of models and engage with clients and colleagues in meaningful dialogue about the implications.
• Contribute to reports being prepared by other Advisory teams (e.g. Due Diligence, Corporate Finance, Restructuring).
• Coach and share technical knowledge with colleagues.
• Attend meetings with clients, build rapport and develop lasting relationships based on trust and quality work.
• Take an active role in supporting the growth of the team by pro-actively building your own network of internal and external contacts.
• Take responsibility for your career and personal development, supported by your people manager, the Financial Modelling team, and the broader firm.
• Manage your time and deliver work in line with agreed budgets and timetables, including managing conflicting workloads and deadlines when necessary.

Skills

Excel proficiency

VBA programming

PowerBI

Education

ACA or CA qualified

Numerate degree level

Tools

VBA

PowerBI

Job description

Alternatively, Grant Thornton

At Grant Thornton we do things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance. A true alternative.

With over 5,000 people in the UK, and a presence in 150 global markets, we're on an ambitious journey, from great to exceptional, and we need the best people to help us achieve our potential. And with that comes the opportunity to help redefine what our industry looks like, and what you want from your career.

Job Description:

NEW GROUND WON'T BREAK ITSELF.

Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals.

Our Modelling team supports clients with financial modelling across the whole umbrella of Advisory services, with four main focus areas:

• Transactions and fundraising - sell-side or buy-side modelling to tell the story of a business, quantify risks, opportunities, and returns, and support fundraising
• Strategic planning and decision support - modelling to support ongoing business planning and to quantify the impact of strategic and routine decisions on a company's results
• Restructuring and insolvency - turnaround planning to rebuild lender confidence, short-term cash flow forecasting, and insolvency outcome analysis
• Funds and valuations - asset and fund models to support initial transactions and ongoing valuation and reporting requirements, with a particular focus on the infrastructure sector

Financial models underpin almost all business decisions and all corporate transactions. We build, review and amend models across all sectors, and our tools and analysis help our clients understand the impact of their decisions before they make them. Our priority is delivering tools that are easy to understand, as well as flexible and robust in the face of change. Most of our work is executed in Microsoft Excel, with some use of other programming languages. We work as part of the firm's wider modelling community, sharing knowledge and best practice with other modelling experts.

We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours, we’ll support you to balance your work and life.

A look into the role

• Develop financial models and other tools for clients to use for forecasting and business planning
• Review financial models built by clients and their advisers and compile initial views and findings
• Update and run financial models to provide analysis to support the firm's wider deliverables (e.g. in Valuations, Insolvency, or Forensics situations)
• Contribute to model design discussions and preparing drafts of model specification documents
• Use and adapt models to perform sensitivity and scenario analysis for deals and restructuring
• Understand the results of models and engage with clients and colleagues in meaningful dialogue about the implications
• Contribute to reports being prepared by other Advisory teams (e.g. Due Diligence, Corporate Finance, Restructuring)
• Coach and share technical knowledge with colleagues
• Attend meetings with clients, build rapport and develop lasting relationships based on trust and quality work
• Take an active role in supporting the growth of the team by pro-actively building your own network of internal and external contacts
• Take responsibility for your career and personal development, supported by your people manager, the Financial Modelling team, and the broader firm
• Manage your time and deliver work in line with agreed budgets and timetables, including managing conflicting workloads and deadlines when necessary

Knowing you're right for us

Joining us as an Assistant Manager, the minimum criteria you'll need is to have:

• ACA or CA qualified (or equivalent) with a strong track record in professional exams
• Excellent Excel proficiency and a keen interest in learning more

It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don't worry if you don't tick every box, we'll help you develop along the way.

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, preferably in a numerate degree subject
• Interest in business issues and corporate finance
• Highly numerate with strong communication skills, and able to explain complex and technical matters to others in plain language
• Strong accounting skills and understanding of cash and working capital cycles
• Logical approach to problem-solving, attention to detail
• Any proficiency or experience with VBA programming or PowerBI
• Prior experience of working with complex financial models or transactional work

Knowing we're right for you

Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people, we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone. Building an inclusive cultu