Merger Remedies and Financial Analysis Adviser

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; and 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.

For full role responsibilities, please see the attached role profile.

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.
  Lead Criteria
• 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.

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

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.