Steer
Amberside Advisors - Financial Modelling Manager
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Following Amberside Advisors’ recent partnership with Steer and to support our future growth plans, we are looking to strengthen our team with the appointment of an experienced Manager.
About the role
As a Manager, you will become an advocate of the firm who pushes forward internal (such as maintaining marketing data) and external initiatives. The role will involve building and maintaining strong business relationships with clients, executing projects to a high standard, as well as working with and managing other colleagues.
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Start to take the lead on multiple projects or programmes through the management of a team with the contribution of cross divisional specialists
- Rigorously executing projects to a level that meet the high-quality standards of Amberside Advisors and holding a review on completion of projects to identify lessons learned and enhance future quality and planning
- Building and cultivating strong business relationships, identifying new opportunities, leading negotiations, and showing technical and operational leadership to deliver quality, client-centric solutions
- Working on CPD to sustain professional status/ accreditation and developing and maintaining a portfolio of clients and professional networks by building and maintaining strategic relationships with senior stakeholders of existing or new clients
- Seeking, developing, and driving business development opportunity, whilst anticipating current and future needs of the company based on research needs of the client/ industry
- Managing the scope, preparation, delivery, reporting and evaluation for larger and higher risk projects and engagements
- Effectively managing commercial and contractual aspects of an engagement to achieve expected levels of quality, profitability, and to agreed deadlines
- Communicating risk and issues early to appropriate colleagues, suggesting solutions
- Maintaining an awareness of market trends, competitor activity and products/ services, passing on pertinent market/client knowledge to senior management
- Working with peers to form a cohesive senior management team and participating in team decisions such as resource allocation
- Taking action to ensure employee wellbeing is being actively managed or escalated if needs be
- Reviewing junior team’s works to ensure the work provided for senior review is the highest quality; identifying any development needs of the team and providing advanced knowledge, coaching, mentoring and stretch assignments to attract, develop and retain talent
- Meeting deadlines throughout the Amberside Advisors Performance Development Cycle, including appraisals, setting objectives, and managing underperformance where necessary
- Ensuring team are accurately charged time to engagement codes to see true value of work delivered and to recognise individual and team effort
- Help to support the onboarding of new joiners
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About the candidate
You must be self-motivated, team player and with a passion for working on large projects that make a difference to our world. The role requires working to deadlines, prioritising workload, and always providing a high level of service.
Values and skills we look for in an Amberside employee:
- Driving curiosity to solve client problems and respond to a challenge
- Belief that solving the world’s energy and climate challenges is something to which we should all respond
- Passion for understanding the financial drivers for each project, combined with the intellectual and communication skills to help clients understand the impact of those drivers
- Confidence in using you own initiative and making decisions at pace
- Exceptional attention to detail and an ability to translate this to an Excel model
- Practiced at communicating complex information in a clear and concise manner – verbally or in written form
- Exhibits role model behaviour in line with Amberside Advisors values
- Expert user of Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint
- The ability to work and communicate as part of a team, and in an effective manner
- Skilled at coping well when under pressure from competing priorities and interruptions
- Able to apply research skills to solve new issues and make improvements
Professional Experience:
Typical experience may include, whilst not limited to:
- Experience of working in a consulting role in financial services
- Experience in leading delivery of large-scale financial projects, including the designing and implementing of financial operating models
- Financial modelling, budgeting, business planning, forecasting and analysis experience
- Experience working as an effective team player and taking on a leadership role
Qualifications:
- A first level university degree, 2:1 (or equivalent) or above is desirable but not compulsory
- An accounting qualification (ACA, ACMA, ACCA) or similar
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About us
Amberside Advisors specialise in providing project finance consultancy and advisory services to public and private sector organisations. Amberside Advisors combines market-leading financial modelling capability with experienced project finance expertise, and our services include advisory, refinancing, due diligence, model development, model audit and training. We have worked on more than 2,500 projects to date across a wide range of sectors and global locations, and our clients are well-known companies with billions of pounds of investments.
Part of the Steer Group since July 2022, we serve a global client base through 24 offices across four continents and take great pride in providing high quality advisory, customer service and insight into our clients’ projects. Our core industry sectors are low carbon, transport, decentralised energy, large scale energy and infrastructure, and we regularly advise on major projects ranging across heat networks, wind, solar and biomass, road and rail, schools, and hospitals, as well as public service delivery contracts.
We offer:
- Competitive starting salary along with discretionary company bonus based on combined company and personal performance
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) common across all employees with the ability to buy and sell up to 10 days leave; plus up to 5 optional volunteering days (2 paid)
- Pension (7.5% employer contribution post probation), life assurance (4* Salary), and Group Income Protection (salary protection) and employee assistance programme
- Other optional including season ticket loan, cycle to work, Gym discount, eye care, language lessons
- Relevant Learning and Development opportunities
- Steer’s employee ownership structure provides share voting rights, and ability to invest in shares through salary sacrifice
- Weekly lunch in-person paid for by the company
- Team building and sports and social club events and activities
- Flexible working hours and work-life balance
- London and Hemel Hempstead based offices
Amberside Advisors are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity across our employees.
We support hybrid working, typically we expect our people to be either in the office or with clients 60% of their working week.
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