Associate/VP - Digital Value Creation - NBFC (3-10 yrs)

Associate/VP - Digital Value Creation - NBFC

Responsibilities

- 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)