Position: Finance modelling manager
Company: upSWOT
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Job brief: Our ideal candidate has the ability to review and analyze financial information and write clear, succinct and insightful reports and has experience in working with the US market

Responsibilities:
- Building analytical models to handle large data sets with SQL, Excel or other relevant specialized. Maintaining a working knowledge of measurement tools, benchmarks, statistics, and metrics needed to quantify and analyze aspects of business risks
- Conducting market analysis and develops an initial hypothesis around growth opportunities and upside potential and downside risks
- Leverage economic and industry knowledge to assess the validity of the financial models and reports
- Identifying critical assumptions and facts that underline valuation estimates and provides alternative approaches as required
- Generating models and analyses as industry requirements dictate and leverages economic and market condition knowledge to assess the validity of models and reports
- Preparing robust business planning or transaction models by applying detailed understanding of commercial practicalities, accounting and finance knowledge, technical ability, quantitative analysis, and logic
- Creating progressive financial models that capture the future operating, investing and financing activities, and helps clients determine future profitability, financial position, and risk
Requirements:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics or related field
- 2 - 4 years’ experience in a similar role within the Big Four
- Experience in working with Zohobooks, Quickbooks, Wave, Freshbooks, Sage, Xero - will be an advantage
- Experience in working with US market
- Knowledge of US GAAP will be an advantage

To qualify, you should have the following skills:
- Previous experience of working in a financial modelling team within the Big
- Experience in IT company
- Experience in working with Developers and Date science teams
- Four or a professional services firm or large corporate
- Developing and/or reviewing models where a key output was integrated financial statements
- Experience in valuation, feasibility studies/projections, transaction support, due diligence, financial restructuring and IPO's.
- Have strong academic achievements including excellent degree results
- Ability to review and analyse financial information and write clear, succinct and insightful reports.
- Advanced level of technical proficiency and computer literacy particularly with spreadsheets (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). 
- Having strong excel skills, relevant technical analytical skills could also be an advantage e.g. VBA, Access, SQL etc.
- Financial data analysis and consolidation
- A knowledge of SQL, visual tools such as Qlikview, PowerBi, and ETL tools 
- R and Python knowledge desirable 
- Have excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Intellectual curiosity and strong attention to detail
- Have an effective approach to time management and the ability to work to tight deadlines