Amberside Advisors - Financial Modelling Manager

Following Amberside Advisors' recent partnership with Steer and to support our future growth plans, we are looking to strengthen our team with the appointment of an experienced Manager.

As a Manager, you will become an advocate of the firm who pushes forward internal (such as maintaining marketing data) and external initiatives. The role will involve building and maintaining strong business relationships with clients, executing projects to a high standard, as well as working with and managing other colleagues.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Start to take the lead on multiple projects or programmes through the management of a team with the contribution of cross divisional specialists
• Rigorously executing projects to a level that meet the high-quality standards of Amberside Advisors and holding a review on completion of projects to identify lessons learned and enhance future quality and planning
• Building and cultivating strong business relationships, identifying new opportunities, leading negotiations, and showing technical and operational leadership to deliver quality, client-centric solutions
• Working on CPD to sustain professional status/ accreditation and developing and maintaining a portfolio of clients and professional networks by building and maintaining strategic relationships with senior stakeholders of existing or new clients
• Seeking, developing, and driving business development opportunity, whilst anticipating current and future needs of the company based on research needs of the client/ industry
• Managing the scope, preparation, delivery, reporting and evaluation for larger and higher risk projects and engagements
• Effectively managing commercial and contractual aspects of an engagement to achieve expected levels of quality, profitability, and to agreed deadlines
• Communicating risk and issues early to appropriate colleagues, suggesting solutions
• Maintaining an awareness of market trends, competitor activity and products/ services, passing on pertinent market/client knowledge to senior management
• Working with peers to form a cohesive senior management team and participating in team decisions such as resource allocation
• Taking action to ensure employee wellbeing is being actively managed or escalated if needs be
• Reviewing junior team's works to ensure the work provided for senior review is the highest quality; identifying any development needs of the team and providing advanced knowledge, coaching, mentoring and stretch assignments to attract, develop and retain talent
• Meeting deadlines throughout the Amberside Advisors Performance Development Cycle, including appraisals, setting objectives, and managing underperformance where necessary
• Ensuring team are accurately charged time to engagement codes to see true value of work delivered and to recognise individual and team effort
• Help to support the onboarding of new joiners

You must be self-motivated, team player and with a passion for working on large projects that make a difference to our world. The role requires working to deadlines, prioritising workload, and always providing a high level of service.

• Driving curiosity to solve client problems and respond to a challenge
• Belief that solving the world's energy and climate challenges is something to which we should all respond
• Passion for understanding the financial drivers for each project, combined with the intellectual and communication skills to help clients understand the impact of those drivers
• Confidence in using you own initiative and making decisions at pace
• Exceptional attention to detail and an ability to translate this to an Excel model
• Practised at communicating…