Steer

Senior Consultant/Principal Consultant, Business and Financial Modelling Advisory

Steer

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

VBA

About the role

  • Locations: London, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham or Hemel Hempstead
  • Work within the BFM practice area undertaking advisory commissions for transport clients to build and assure operating and financial models, together with delivering projects involving the funding/financing of infrastructure development.
  • Work closely with colleagues in other disciplines and geographies.
  • Lead financial workstreams within projects and ensure best practice techniques are applied.
  • Specify, develop and assure a range of business and financial models, underpinning Steer’s advice to clients.
  • Lead the development of funding strategies and financial cases for transport infrastructure.
  • Support review and assurance of operating and financial models for clients within transport and infrastructure sectors.
  • Conduct internal reviews of modelling work for quality management.
  • Support BFM Practice Lead to identify opportunities and lead production of proposals and business development in the UK and overseas.
  • Support development and training of team members through formal training, seminars and workshops.

Requirements

  • Lead financial workstreams within projects, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently and full integration with Steer project teams.
  • Specify, develop and assure a range of business and financial models, underpinning Steer’s advice to clients.
  • Lead and the development of funding strategies and financial cases for transport infrastructure.
  • Support the review and assurance of a range of operating and financial models for clients within the transport and infrastructure sectors.
  • Conduct internal reviews of a range of modelling work undertaken by others as part of Steer’s quality management procedures.
  • Support the BFM Practice Lead to identify opportunities and lead the production of proposals to win new work and engage in business development in the UK and overseas.
  • Support the development of team members.
  • Transfer knowledge through formal training, seminars and workshops to promote staff development
  • Experience of developing robust, user-friendly, best-practice and flexible operating and financial forecasting models, including sourcing inputs and providing senior management with an analysis of key outputs, ideally including transport (rail, aviation or infrastructure) models.
  • Experience of developing financial cases and funding strategies, ideally in the transport sector.
  • Experience of project management (including project budgets), workstream management and taking key roles in proposal development.
  • Experience gained in a consulting environment, multi-disciplinary transport practice or in a business with a clear role in supporting commercial/financial evaluations, although candidates from other backgrounds will be considered.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, coupled with the confidence to explain technical details clearly to non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to develop effective working relationships with clients and potential clients and play a role in the development of the business.
  • Good team player, able to work collaboratively with colleagues in other disciplines to provide the best solution for the client.
  • Experience in undertaking model assurance.
  • Experience in regulated industries.
  • An appreciation of the policy, regulatory and commercial aspects of the rail and/or aviation sector.
  • Professional Accounting or Finance qualification.
  • Experience with data analysis and visualisation software.
  • VBA for Microsoft Excel.