Finance & strategy analyst

Finance & Strategy Analyst

Glasgow City Centre (hybrid)

c£65,000 + package

I am delighted to be working on this opportunity….here’s why;

• Terrific, highly accomplished CFO, with outstanding track record.
• Well established, Private Equity backed business with a global footprint.
• Defined growth strategy culminating in an exit event in 3-4 years.
• Long-term environmental sustainability at the very heart of the company’s ethos.

This newly created requirement, reporting directly to the CFO, is a wide-ranging role, which will influence the direction of the company. The Finance and Strategy Analyst will be responsible for driving understanding, decision-making, and analysis across all areas of the business and operations. A high impact role during a period of rapid growth and expansion, you will be responsible for ad hoc analysis, alongside owning ongoing processes. You will have a heavy involvement in M&A and exposure to the private equity investors as well as significant exposure to and influence with the wider senior management team. This is a proposition for an individual with high-ambition and low ego, with a desire to have a tangible impact on a fast-growing business, that is also having a positive impact on the environment.

Experience, knowledge & skills:

• Highly numerate, naturally inquisitive and deeply analytical - a master of Excel
• Degree from a top tier university, preferably in a numerate discipline
• 1+ year of professional work experience, likely in a professional services firm (e.g. management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, accounting firm)
• Familiarity with PowerBI or similar is a significant plus
• Motivated by learning and understanding new things, with an ambition and passion for knowing “how things work” or “why things happen”
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills, both written and oral
• Ability to grasp the bigger picture and develop higher-level strategic insights from detailed numerical analysis
• Self-driven, with the ability to work in somewhat ambiguous and unstructured environments, with multiple competing priorities

MOST importantly, the right person:

Comfortable with ambiguity. Enjoys digging into a messy business problem as much as building a clean model. Not just a number cruncher - a business thinker who happens to love numbers. Someone who simplifies rather than complicates, and who sees technology as an opportunity, not a threat.