Data & Financial Modelling Analyst

We are looking for two recently ACA-qualified accountants to support a fast-paced project focused on data gathering, validation, and building robust financial models. You will work in our Finance team and with cross-functional stakeholders to collect and clean source data, develop driver-based models, and translate findings into clear, actionable insights for decision-making. This role will suit someone who understands professional services environments.

Responsibilities:

• Create dashboards and model outputs for Senior Leadership teams' review.
• Clean, reconcile, and validate large data sets; resolve discrepancies with data owners.
• Build and maintain scenario models.
• Develop short- and medium-term forecasts, sensitivities, and 'what-if' analyses.
• Prepare succinct analysis packs: assumptions, methodology, results, and recommendations.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to interpret results and inform decisions.

The Team:

The Finance department is a close-knit team of 25 talented professionals, bringing together expertise across three specialist areas: Financial Control, Financial Operations, and Financial Reporting. We are a collaborative, supportive group who take pride in delivering high-quality work and continuously improving how we partner with the business. In this role, you will work and report to the Head of Financial Reporting, joining a team that values curiosity, ownership, and a willingness to get stuck in.

You:

• ACA qualified with good pass rates in the professional exams.
• Strong Excel skills are essential.
• Solid grasp of financial statements, accounting fundamentals, and reconciliations.
• Proven ability to clean, reconcile, and structure complex datasets from multiple sources.
• Be organised and commercially minded.
• Display a flexible, professional approach and have the confidence to establish credibility with Partners.
• Clear, concise communication, able to turn numbers into insights and next steps.
• Demonstrate a passion for delivering quality, ensuring that client needs are met.

Reward and Benefits:

A 35 hour working week with a hybrid working policy with the flexibility to work from home for up to three days per week (our core hours are 10-4). Excellent benefits including contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance cover and great flexible benefits and family friendly policies.

About Us:

Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing market-leading accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax and VAT services. Founded in 1855, we are the UK's 15th largest accountancy firm. When you work with us at Saffery, you work with people who know your name, not just a job title. We are a place shaped by friendly, intelligent people who are individually excellent and collectively exceptional. We are committed to our clients, but also to our greatest asset - our people. As a proud member of Nexia, a leading, international network of independent accounting and consulting firms, we have access to local insight on a global scale.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:

Equality, diversity and inclusion is a top priority for us. With our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we are building on our positive work culture and implementing initiatives to improve diversity and strengthen our equitable culture of inclusion, led from the top. We hope you will apply to us, whatever your background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability or neurodivergence, because individual differences equal collective strength. Built on values of excellence, integrity, enthusiasm and collegiality, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.