Principal Consultant - Consulting & Financial Analytics Specialist

Q5

Greater London

On-site

GBP 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Performance Related Bonus

Pension Plan

Life Assurance and Income Protection

New Starter Loan

Private Medical Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Digital GP and Wellbeing Apps

Wellbeing Programme

Electric Car and Cycle to Work Schemes

Enhanced Parental Leave

Eye care subsidies

Job summary

Q5, a global organisation transformation consultancy, is seeking a Principal Consultant to lead the Analytics Hub. You will oversee analytics projects, coach junior consultants, and work with clients to drive strategic outcomes.

The role requires solid quantitative skills, consulting expertise, and a collaborative, down-to-earth style, with a focus on finance modelling, operating model design, and data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

7+ years relevant professional experience in Management Consulting or Transformation roles.
Experience leading complex organisation transformation (operating model and organisation design)
Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to new contexts
Highly numerate with strong financial and commercial concepts
Experience developing high quality financial and operational models
Excellent communication and facilitation skills with non-data audiences
Advanced Excel skills and preferably data visualization experience
Entrepreneurial mindset to grow Q5’s analytics practice
Qualifications in Finance, Economics, or Data Science

Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day execution of analytics projects and manage small consulting teams
Conduct financial and commercial analyses and produce high-quality reports with actionable recommendations
Develop and build complex financial models to support strategic decisions
Advise clients and project teams with SME input
Support development of new analytics tools and techniques
Support Business Development with proposals and materials

Skills

Financial modelling

Management consulting

Analytical mindset

Advanced Excel

Data visualization

Communication skills

Facilitation

Project leadership

Business development support

Entrepreneurial mindset

Education

Finance/Economics/Data Science degree

Job description

A great opportunity for an engaging Principal Consultant with strong analytical skills to play a leading role in the growth our data & analytics capability.

About Q5

Q5 is a global organisation transformation consultancy that brings the Art & Science of Organisation Health to help our clients build better businesses worldwide. Since we were founded in 2009, we have had the privilege to partner with some of the world’s leading businesses, providing them with expert analysis, creating dramatic new strategies, overhauling struggling operations, and making sure the right people, are in the right place, doing the right things for the business to thrive.

What sets us apart though is not just what we do but how we do it. We take a partnership approach to our engagements, helping clients to come together and create tailored and comprehensive solutions that work for their business and context. Our working style is highly collaborative, which in practice means we enable their leaders with a structured approach and transformational expertise so that they can define, design, and deploy their vision.

Analytics Hub

We have recently established an ‘Analytics Hub’ that provides specialist capability in support of our consulting projects. It is an incredibly exciting time for the business, with the team growing rapidly and working across a wide spread of client challenges including:

Financial analysis and scenario modelling to support strategic reorientation
Analysis in support of operating model redesign
Business transformation to reduce operating costs
Modelling future state workforce needs
Designing strategic management dashboards
Culture diagnostics drawing together people and survey data

About the Role

We are looking for a Financial Modelling specialist to join our growing Analytics Hub and take on a leading role across multiple assignments. The role will involve advising clients and project teams; supporting business development; and coaching and developing junior consultants. To be successful in the role you will need to bring together solid quantitative skills, general consulting capabilities, and a collaborative, down-to-earth style.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the day-to-day execution of analytics projects (and workstreams within wider transformation projects), including oversight of small consulting teams
Conduct financial and commercial analyses and develop high-quality reports, create insightful recommendations that lead to enhanced business outcomes
Develop and build complex financial models to support strategic decisions
Advise clients and project teams with SME input
Support the development of new approaches/analytics tools
Support Business Development with proposals and materials

7+ years relevant professional experience (ideally in Management Consulting, Strategy or Transformation roles)
Experience leading complex organisation transformation (ideally with experience in operating model and organisation design)
Ability to manage multiple priorities and hit the ground running in new contexts
Highly numerate with a solid understanding of financial and commercial concepts and ability to apply this to advise clients in a diversity of settings
Experience developing high quality financial and operational models in support of major strategic projects
Excellent communication skills and facilitation skills with the ability to explain complex results or concepts to non-data audiences
Advanced excel skills and preferably experience in data visualisation
Advanced problem-solving and critical thinking skills with experience in producing high-quality, insightful outputs
Entrepreneurial mindset to help grow Q5’s analytics practice
Qualifications in a relevant discipline (e.g. Finance, Economics, Data Science)

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