Graduate Data Analyst

targetjobs UK; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading team as a Data Analyst in Manchester, where you'll transform complex datasets into meaningful insights for M&A transactions. This full-time role offers the opportunity to learn from experienced professionals and contribute to significant financial evaluations while enhancing your data analytics skills.

Benefits

Internal coaching and training

External training relating to deals and analytics

Team events and activities

Qualifications

• Graduating this summer with a relevant bachelor's degree.
• Some experience, possibly from internships or projects.
• Knowledge of data analytics tools or willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Collect, clean, and validate large financial datasets.
• Design and build data models for due diligence analyses.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations to drive insights.

Skills

Problem solving

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics, Mathematics, or Data Science

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Job description

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We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Data Analyst to join our Transaction Services team. If you enjoy using data to reach insights or are passionate about a career in M&A, this role may be suitable for you!

You will be supporting the transaction services team to transform complex data sets into insights for deals, helping to evaluate financial performance, identify trends and assess risk and value drivers.

Key Responsibilities

What Your Day To Day May Look Like

• Collect, clean, and validate large financial and operational datasets from target companies and clients.
• Assist in identifying anomalies, inconsistencies, or red flags in data.
• Design and build data models to support due diligence analyses.
• Perform quantitative analyses to assess historical performance through the key metrics of the target companies.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations to drive insights.
• Help to prepare client deliverables such as visuals to include in reports.
• Automate routine data extraction and reporting tasks to improve efficiency.
• Maintain strict data confidentiality and adhere to data governance and compliance standards.
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Requirements

• We are looking for someone who is passionate about problem solving and keen to develop their data analytics skills.
• Graduating this summer with a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics / Data Analytics, Mathematics, Data Science, or any related field.
• Some experience (this may be through a summer internship, or any equivalent experience gained during your time at university, for e.g. through projects, dissertations and presentations).
• You will have knowledge and experience of using data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, SQL or equivalent) or a high desire to learn.
  
  

Benefits

What you can expect at Cowgills:

• We are a growing team, and we believe that investing time and money in training and developing our people is key to our success.
• Your existing knowledge will be complemented through internal coaching and training, as well as external training relating to both deals and analytics.
• This is a great opportunity for someone joining straight out of university as you will be working alongside and learning from a team of professionals with decades of experience and established reputation in the market.
  
  

As a team, we enjoy a lot of fun activities through a combination of team, office, and company-wide events. You can find out about this and more on our website!

Note that whilst our business has a head office in Bolton and several other offices across the North-West, this role is 100% based in Manchester, near Spinningfields.

About Cowgills

We’re not your ordinary accountancy firm, far from it. While we’re one of the North West’s leading independent firms of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors, we’ve never lost sight of the fact that we work with people, not just numbers.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Internship

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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