- Participate in buy-side and sell-side M&A engagements and data-focused operational reporting engagements
- Lead engagements or substantial workstreams within an engagement, taking ownership of the execution, quality and timeliness of deliverable to clients
- Day-to-day project management, ensuring progress in line with project plan and effective resource management; resolving bottlenecks and complex questions; identifying risks and delays; reporting and escalating issues as required; tracking budgets; etc.
- Communicate directly and effectively with senior business executives and internal stakeholders, providing project updates, discussing questions and bottlenecks, and sharing points of view and recommendations as defined within project scope
- Gather, evaluate, sanitize, and organize applicable meta data
- Prepare data workflows to clean and combine data from multiple sources
- Prepare data visualizations and dashboards to deliver key insights
- Generate insights on the drivers of business growth, profitability, and liquidity, and story-board key findings into a structured and comprehensible report
- Identify key business risks and opportunities impacting business valuation
- Be willing to learn and train peers on data analysis and visualization tools
- Continuously develop industry knowledge and qualifications
- Be able to work on and lead multiple assignments simultaneously
- Support and actively participate in business development efforts
- Review the work of junior team members, ensuring desired quality and insights, and providing timely feedback for their continuous learning
- Manage a team of 2-3 Analysts and/or Associates, being responsible for their learning and professional development
Basic (must-have) Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in technology / computer science / accounting / finance or quantitative finance, or similar (with concentration in data analytics or another quantitative field)
- Experience in financial analytics based on sound understanding of financial statements like Profit & Loss and Balance sheet and ability to analyze financial and operating performance of a company
- Hands-on experience in working on one of the data wrangling / ETL tool i.e. Alteryx, Dataiku etc.
- Sound knowledge of and experience in data visualization tools, either Tableau or Power BI
- Strong command of advanced Microsoft Excel functions, PowerPivot, Power Query, etc.
- Experience working in a global organization across different time zones, managing both internal and external stakeholders
- Team management experience, covering role expectations, learning and development, and performance management
- Exceptional work ethic, high motivation, and a demonstrated ability and desire to work cooperatively with team members and client professionals
- Strong analytical abilities
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- A demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and be a team player
Preferred (good-to-have) Qualifications
- Post graduate degree or diploma, or certification in any of the above fields of study or business administration (for instance MBA, CFA, CQF etc.)
- Experience in M&A and financial consulting areas such as Financial due diligence, Valuation, Financial Planning & Analysis will be a strong advantage
- Strong command of at least one programming language Python, R, VBA
- Prior work experience in relational database management systems (including experience in SQL Server, Snowflake, or similar)