London Vice President Strategic Finance

Accordion Partners; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading finance and technology consultancy is looking for a Vice President in London to join a cross-functional team. This role involves providing leadership in client engagements, developing financial models, and enhancing the performance of private equity-backed portfolio companies. Candidates should have extensive experience in finance, strong analytical skills, and a passion for driving growth in a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience at a top-tier private equity firm or investment bank.
• Strong transactional finance and operational finance experience.
• Power user of Tableau and advanced Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership support on client engagements and manage work streams.
• Develop financial and analytic models to drive operational insights.
• Perform financial due diligence for investment decisions.

Skills

Transactional finance

Analytical skills

Communication

Leadership

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or economics

MBA

Tools

Tableau

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Job description

There’s a better way to work in finance—and more specifically, a better way to unlock value potential in private equity-backed portfolio companies. Working at the intersection of sponsors and management teams across every stage of the investment lifecycle, our team provides hands-on, execution-oriented support to elevate the office of the CFO.

So, what does it mean to work at Accordion? It means joining 1,400+ finance & technology experts in a high-growth, collaborative, and agile environment while changing the way portfolio companies drive value. It also means making your mark on Accordion’s future.

With the London office launching our European footprint, London-based Accordionites will have a unique opportunity to flex their entrepreneurial muscles to drive our business forward in the European market whilst working with colleagues who think like owners.

Accordion is headquartered in New York City with 10 offices around the globe. Come join us as we build something great, together.

Strategic Finance

Accordion’s Strategic FP&A Practice works with leading private equity firms globally to help the Finance teams of portfolio companies build capabilities to enhance performance visibility, planning activities, data & analytics, and business partnering to enable and accelerate value creation.

By combining extensive operational FP&A experience, data and technology skills, and a proprietary engagement model, we develop and implement tools and processes and deliver solutions whilst working at the pace and rigour required in a PE-backed environment.

This role can be based in our London office. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location, with the flexibility to work remotely 1-2 days a week, blending the best of both worlds for efficiency and collaboration.

What You’ll Do:

As a Vice President on a lean, cross-functional team, you will work collaboratively with a diverse set of colleagues with backgrounds in Private Equity, Investment Banking, FP&A, Big 4 and Financial Controllers, to identify and rectify issues across a broad range of scenarios.

• Provide leadership support on client engagements including managing work streams to agreed timelines, performing quality control of client deliverables and leading the presentation of deliverables
• Develop financial and analytic models at various granularity to drive operational and transactional insights
• Conduct financial and business due diligence to assist various investment and growth decisions
• Perform detailed analysis and synthesise actionable insights from data sets and unstructured information sources
• Construct impactful reports and presentations that enhance key stakeholders’ understanding of business trends and drivers
• Regular and extensive travel across Europe to work with clients in the relevant jurisdictions
• Lead/participate in consultant teach-ins and other training exercises
• Participate in the performance review process for engagement teams

Ideally, You Have:

• A bachelor’s degree in business, finance or economics. MBA a plus
• 6 years+ experience at a top tier private equity firm, investment bank and/or consulting firm
• Strong transactional finance experience as well as an understanding of operational finance
• Power user of Tableau
• Advanced Excel skills and very strong financial modeling and valuation skills; SQL, Power BI are highly desirable
• Strong quantitative and organisational skills
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight in the completion of projects
• Strong interpersonal, leadership and team-management skills
• High integrity, independent and individually motivated
• Additional European languages are a plus

Ideally, You Are:

• A self-starter with a strong work ethic
• A leader of others; you lead by example
• Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth
• A strong team player, able to work with team members across all levels
• Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
• Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing).
• Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization
• Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies
• Passionate about delivering exceptional client service
• Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
• Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.