Risk Modelling Manager - Financial Modelling and Analytics

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Job description

Financial Modelling

PwC's Risk Modelling practice provides a range of analytical and modelling solutions to a range of clients across both the private and public sector. Within the practice, the Financial Modelling team uses the firm's leading tools to build & deliver client models to inform key decisions, help assure & validate business critical models and quantify risk and modelling uncertainty.

As a member of PwC's risk modelling team, you will work with a range of clients supporting them with a variety of challenges. The financial models we review or develop are often part of our clients reporting process such as goodwill impairment testing calculations. In other cases they may be for a specific purpose, deal or acquisition such as a Working capital model or to support the financial planning and analysis function.

You will often be working directly with senior client management, participating in meetings with senior client staff and colleagues to add value to our clients.

You will work alongside a diverse team from a range of analytical backgrounds including accountants, actuaries, data scientists and financial risk modellers. In addition to working directly for clients, you will also work in collaboration with other PwC teams, combining our analytical and modelling skills with engineering, project management operational, financial and governance skills to deliver broad solutions to our clients.

As a team, we offer continuous learning opportunities (on the job or through formal internal and external training). You will be encouraged to contribute to the team learning and share knowledge via internal presentations, tutoring on internal courses or by contributing material to the knowledge database.

Core requirements and responsibilities:

• Performing model reviews/integrity checks, (ii) specifying, developing and testing models we build, and (iii) advising on model infrastructure, governance and control frameworks.
• An understanding of P&Ls, balance sheets and cashflow statements is required.
• You will play a key role in the continued growth and development of our strategy. This will include being actively engaged in strategy meetings, developing marketing materials and building strong client relationships.
• You will utilise complex modelling techniques to infer valuable insights to our clients, and will be required to explain and deliver these to a wide audience. As such you will need to be able to tailor your communication to the target audience.
• You will have access to a range of high profile clients and engagements, and will be responsible for the day to day management of your engagements. This includes, managing key client and PwC stakeholders, producing and presenting reports to management, tracking budgets and maintaining strong relationships.

At PwC we pride ourselves on our continued learning and development:

• You will be encouraged to focus on your own goals and ambitions with support from your personal Career Coach, training materials and access to numerous courses.
• You will often be responsible for the development of our junior staff, including on the job training, guidance and support. Managers are expected to perform effective delegation to junior staff with arms length support.
• You will need to maintain a good understanding of the developments in the market and look to share with your clients.

As an experienced professional you will be expected to:

• Contribute to winning new work;
• Plan and deliver work to integrate with other advisers and the client to add sustainable value;
• Coach junior members of the team during project delivery; and
• Acquire and share knowledge to build your own expertise and that of other staff.

As an experienced manager you will have a proven track record in supporting organisations to develop financial models.

Essential skills & experience:

• Education to Degree level;
• Qualifications such as the ACA, ACCA, CIMA and FIA would be beneficial for the role;
• Strong understanding and experience of building and reviewing financial models grounded in corporate P&L, balance sheet and cashflow statements, with an understanding of the key accounting basis for the interrelations between these three;
• Core modelling skills in Excel;
• Experience in facilitating stakeholder interaction, such as running workshops and communicating results using innovative solutions such as Power BI or Tableau;
• You will have the ability to assess modelling needs/solutions based on client maturity and recommend the best analytics, tools and methods to support them;
• You will have managed a small team and have experience in technical coaching, with the ability to transfer knowledge to clients and colleague;
• Ability to lead multiple projects, across a variety of teams;
• Ability to own client relationships and manage them throughout the engagement lifecycle;

Desirable Technical skills:

• Experience of building and developing technology based solutions;
• Core reporting skills in Excel, and bespoke visualisation software such as, Power BI, Tableau, or similar;

Desirable subject matter expertise:

• Experience of working within a finance function or supporting finance functions or FP&A functions;
• Experience building/reviewing financial models (P&L, Cashflow, Balance Sheet)
• Some element of accounting experience (part qualified, qualified, etc)
• 3+ years of experience

Risk

We're a leading provider of trust in the digital world - in the eyes of our people, our clients and our stakeholders. Today's business environment is different. More complex. More connected. Companies not only face new and unknown risks, but also new and untapped opportunities. Our team is at the forefront of this change, join us to be a part of transforming how risk is perceived and capitalised on.

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