Financial Modelling Manager (Deals Insights & Analytics)

PricewaterhouseCoopers; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm in Birmingham seeks a Manager in financial modelling to drive insights through advanced analytics. This role involves leading a team to provide critical recommendations for clients, with a focus on strategic decision-making. Candidates should possess excellent communication skills and a strong foundation in Excel and financial modelling. The position offers a full-time contract and the opportunity for continuous career development within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible travel options

Qualifications

• Understand commercial drivers and articulate to stakeholders.
• Articulate complex financial concepts to non-finance staff.
• Be capable of leading model design and driver-based model delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial modelling projects for strategic business support.
• Design and deliver analysis to meet business needs.
• Provide insights into client performance to inform decision-making.

Skills

Commercial drivers understanding

Communication with non-financial staff

Proficient in MS Excel

Financial modelling coaching

Business development skills

Education

ACA or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry / Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Deals

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC our people in data and analytics focus on leveraging data to drive insights and make informed business decisions. They utilise advanced analytics techniques to help clients optimise their operations and achieve their strategic goals.

Those in financial risk modelling at PwC will focus on developing and implementing models to assess and manage financial risks for clients. Your work will involve analysing data conducting stress tests and providing recommendations to mitigate risks.

Who are we

We are the worlds largest and most successful deal analytics and modelling team. Sitting at the heart of PwCs $10bn global deals business we work with the worlds largest investors on their most complex transactions and restructurings.

Our purpose is to support the increasingly sophisticated client demand for advanced data‑driven insights to underpin their critical investment decisions. We deliver this with :

• A range of products and services that deliver transformational insights to our clients throughout the deal cycle;
• Significant investments in cutting edge technologies and platforms
• A world class and truly diverse team with a range of data science technology commercial financial and industry backgrounds

For the right candidate this is an amazing opportunity to build a career in an environment that fosters a creative and entrepreneurial spirit with the unrivalled security personal development client access and investment that PwC brings.

We offer an exciting continuous development journey to help you become a market‑leading deals advisor.

PwC operates in 136 countries around the world with over 364,000 employees and revenues of US$57bn.

What you’ll be doing

Your main area of focus will be financial modelling which is used by our clients to support almost every critical business decision.

As part of this team you will help design and deliver truly game‑changing analysis and insights to meet a range of business needs. For example :

• Improving clarity and transparency for investors and finance providers by leading a team who will build succinct KPI‑driven forecasts that incorporate key operational commercial and financing sensitivities
• Adding credibility to the business growth story with insightful analysis of historic performance translated into a robust articulation of cash and profit dynamics to strengthen price negotiations
• Improving cash and liquidity management especially in distressed investments
• Evaluating returns to independent creditor groups in complex restructurings
• Leading a team to provide independent model audit services to increase investor confidence
• Coaching and upskilling within the team in current and new techniques
• Supporting on business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new / existing clients

Most importantly we need you to become a business partner and strategic advisor to our clients translating and communicating your analysis to help answer the critical commercial questions.

In summary we’ve built an amazing team in which we’re confident you’ll have fun, learn loads, build confidence and have some fantastic experiences (personal and professional).

How will you get us interested

You will be technically-minded and driven by solving complex problems and you get a kick out of explaining how you do it. You’ll be working with some excellent analytical brains but also varying stakeholders for our clients and for this reason you will know how to explain the technical details to non‑technical people.

You’ll use your commercial and financial skills to understand the drivers of a business, analyse their data and use this to provide clear insights and advice to our clients.

Therefore what we can’t go without is

• Understand commercial drivers of a business and be able to succinctly articulate this to stakeholders
• Able to articulate complex financial or technical concepts to non‑finance staff
• Proficient in MS Excel and able to lead a team to design and deliver a driver‑based model aligned to the commercial drivers of the business
• Able to perform detailed model reviews and disaggregate complex formulae
• Capability and a keen interest in coaching and mentoring others in financial modelling
• Skillful in performing business development, assisting in pitching to clients and developing relationships
• ACA or equivalent
• Flexibility to travel throughout the UK

We’d love to tell you more so press apply and chat to our recruitment team!

Optional Skills

• Accepting Feedback
• Active Listening
• Analytical Thinking
• Coaching and Feedback
• Communication
• Creativity
• Credit Risk Assessment
• Credit Risk Management
• Credit Risk Mitigation
• Credit Risk Model Development
• Credit Risk Modeling
• Credit Risk Monitoring
• Data Analysis
• Embracing Change
• Emotional Regulation
• Empathy
• Financial Audit
• Financial Budgeting
• Financial Data Mining
• Financial Forecasting
• Financial Management
• Financial Market
• Financial Modeling
• Financial Planning

Key Skills

• Adobe Analytics
• Data Analytics
• SQL
• Attribution Modeling
• Power BI
• R
• Regression Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Tableau
• Data Mining
• SAS
• Analytics

Employment Details

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Travel Requirements: Up to 60%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: Yes

Government Clearance Required: No