At a Glance
- Tasks: Analyse complex financial data and provide insights for merger investigations.
- Company: Join the CMA, the UK's leading competition and consumer protection authority.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with diverse teams and excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on the UK economy while developing your analytical skills.
- Qualifications: Degree in business, finance, or accounting; strong analytical and communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Location: Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester
Are you a strong communicator with the ability to analyse and interpret complex financial information? The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking a Merger Remedies and Financial Analysis Adviser to provide commercial analysis and insight across a range of our cases.
The CMA is an independent non-ministerial UK government department and is the UK’s principal competition and consumer protection authority. We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. We provide the opportunity to work across all sectors of the UK economy, undertaking objective, evidence-based analysis that can have a direct and substantial impact on the economy and economic prosperity.
The CMA’s mission is to make markets work well for consumers, businesses and the UK economy. To achieve this mission the CMA investigates a range of areas, and intervenes in markets by introducing remedies to tackle the consumer and competition problems we find. The Merger Remedies and Financial Analysis group sits within the wider CMA Mergers directorate and provides CMA decision-makers with business and financial analysis across a range of issues arising in our merger investigations, including:
- Undertaking assessments of complex counterfactual scenarios;
- Leading on the development, implementation, monitoring, enforcement and reviews of the remedies we impose;
- Imposing and monitoring the CMA’s interim measures during our merger investigations.
Merger Remedies and Financial Analysis Advisers work closely with economists and legal advisers in multi-disciplinary teams, providing commercial analysis and insight across the breadth of the CMA’s mergers case work. This involves understanding businesses and gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting good quality financial information. Merger Remedies Advisers also play a lead role in determining and defining effective solutions to the problems we find.
Person specification
It is essential that you can provide evidence and examples for each of the following selection criteria in your application:
- A degree and/or a postgraduate business, finance or accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, CIMA, CFA or MBA) OR equivalent experience, ideally alongside familiarity with economics and financial theory.
Lead Criteria
- Relevant analytical and interpretive experience including understanding business models in different industries; generating insights from complex information and evidencing accounting knowledge and numeracy.
- Well‑developed communication skills (both verbal and written) which result in persuasive, well‑reasoned arguments.
- Experience in successfully managing and developing relationships with colleagues at different levels, to achieve results through working collaboratively, sharing information and building supportive, responsive relationships, while having the confidence to challenge assumptions.
- Experience in using sound judgement, evidence and knowledge to provide accurate, expert, justified and professional advice.
- Experience in effective planning, organising and managing time and activities to deliver a well‑respected, timely and efficient service, while ensuring high quality and accurate outputs.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a Quality Service
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Merger Remedies and Financial Analysis
For more information and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button below.
Merger Remedies and Financial Analysis Adviser employer: Competition and Markets Authority
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment across major UK cities such as Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, and Manchester. With a strong commitment to employee development, the CMA fosters a collaborative culture where analytical skills are honed through meaningful projects that directly impact the economy. Employees benefit from a supportive atmosphere that encourages professional growth and the opportunity to engage in vital work promoting fair competition and consumer protection.
Contact Details:
Competition and Markets Authority Recruitment Team
