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
Requirements
- 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)
Benefits
Finance
- Performance Related Bonus
- Contributory Pension Plan
- Life Assurance and Income Protection
- New Starter Loan
Health & Wellbeing
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Digital GP and Wellbeing Apps
- Internal Wellbeing Programme
Family & Lifestyle
- Electric Car and Cycle to Work Schemes
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Subsidised eye tests and support with the cost prescribed glasses for DSE use
