Modeling & Insights – Senior Consultant
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During your tenure as a Senior Consultant in Modeling & Insights, you will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:
- Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders within modelling engagements
- Each model that we build is bespoke. As a result, your role will be to develop a clear understanding of the requirements of each client then ensure alignment and agreement of the model to that understanding
- Able to translate the requirements of a client into logical steps and formulas
- Understand what metrics matter to the most to the client and identify ways of clearly presenting this in the model – visually as well as numerically
- Take responsibility for the administrative processes surrounding the engagement; liaising with the client in a timely manner to ensure that quality and compliance requirements have been met
- Maintain consistent client communication throughout the project; all the way through draft models, user acceptance testing to model handover; making sure that the final model is delivered to the satisfaction of the client
- Become an undoubted specialist in Excel. As your journey takes you through more challenging modelling engagements, use the experience of your colleagues to develop your technical proficiency to meet these challenges
- Perform quality assurance reviews of your colleagues’ models. Through your review, considerately and precisely communicate to your colleagues to ensure mathematical accuracy and consistent logic
- Ensure the accuracy of the models and model documentation prior to client delivery
Leadership Capabilities
- Focus on developing effective communication and builds relationships within the team
- Contribute to the winning business for the team by tailoring how our modelling expertise can meet the requirements of prospective clients
- Demonstrate strong commitment to learning by identifying areas of personal development
- Understand expectations and demonstrate personal accountability for keeping performance on track
- Understand how your daily work contributes to the priorities of the team and the business
Qualifications
- 2-4 years’ experience in financial consulting (Financial Advisory/Corporate Finance) or Investment Banking/Merchant Banking,
- Candidates must have commenced a Chartered Accountancy Qualification with one of the major international accountancy bodies - we will provide you the support to do so
- Experience of developing financial models in a business environment
- Any experience of delivering models to third party clients in a professional services environment is an advantage
- Technical proficiency and computer literacy, particularly with Microsoft Excel in the business environment
- A clear understanding is expected of how to use Excel formulas in a flexible manner and when to select the more complicated formulas
- Competent user of the Microsoft Office suite, specifically Word and PowerPoint in addition to Excel
- Proactive in quality assurance and ensuring deliverables meet the highest standards
- Strong Interpersonal & Communication skills
- A numerate under-graduate or post-graduate qualification
- Fluent in English with the ability to write and present in English
- Bilinguals (Arabic & English) preferred