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As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE-where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value-supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.\nIf you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.\nAs we build our European footprint, the London office presents a unique entrepreneurial opportunity to shape our presence and accelerate growth across the region-while benefiting from the support and stability of an established, industry-leading firm.\nBacked by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark. \nStrategic Finance\nAccordion’s Strategic FP&A Practice works with leading private equity firms globally to help the Finance teams of portfolio companies build capabilities to enhance performance visibility, planning activities, data & analytics, and business partnering to enable and accelerate value creation.\nBy combining extensive operational FP&A experience, data and technology skills, and a proprietary engagement model, we develop and implement tools and processes and deliver solutions whilst working at the pace and rigour required in a PE-backed environment.\nThis role can be based in our London office. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location, with the flexibility to work remotely 1-2 days a week, blending the best of both worlds for efficiency and collaboration.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nAs an Associate on a lean, cross-functional team, you will work collaboratively with a diverse set of colleagues with backgrounds in Private Equity, Investment Banking, FP&A, Big 4 and Financial Controllers, to identify and rectify issues across a broad range of scenarios. This role will require regular and extensive travel across Europe to work with clients in the relevant jurisdictions.\nThe following representative engagements are emblematic of the type of work you’ll do as an Associate at Accordion.\nA financial services company recently emerged from bankruptcy and underwent changes in ownership. They need additional visibility into company-wide financial and operational performance. You are brought in to:\nDetermine data availability and reliability and design a structured process to aggregate relevant data sets that will serve as the foundation of all future reporting\nWork with the CFO, Sponsor, and Operating team to understand business drivers, verify KPIs, and establish a single source of numerical truth via monthly reporting packages\nDevelop a reporting cadence and automated processes that combine sound data flows and insightful KPIs to generate a monthly Board and management reporting packages\nTrain the existing FP&A team to run and own process flows and forecast analysis tools\nA higher education enterprise that scaled up through a series of acquisitions requires a budget plan, better forecasting tools, and insightful analytics to guide decision-making. You are brought in to:\nComplete a diagnostic deep dive to identify anecdotes, root causes, and key corrective themes in the existing budgeting and forecasting processes.\nQuarterback comprehensive budget plan and process in partnership with FP&A, sales, operations, and senior leadership teams.\nBuild out and maintain 13-week cash flow forecasts by coordinating with the relevant departments within the company.\nLeverage PowerQuery and PowerPivot for structuring, analysing, and modeling data within Excel. Despite back-end complexity, you deliver reports that remain user friendly for the CFO, FP&A team and other relevant stakeholders.\nFollowing the acquisition of three stand-alone businesses, a PE Sponsor has identified the need to consolidate operations and establish a singular finance function that will own budgeting, financial reporting, bank reporting, and new CFO on-boarding in order to realise the synergies identified in their investment thesis. Get ready to:\nDesign a singular finance function that can serve all three businesses; including headcount, budget, and specific roles and responsibilities for each member of the team.\nAssist in developing a highly detailed, week-by-week training plans for each team member.\nSelect and implement a robust ERP solution which meets the needs of the newly combined business.\nBuild analytical tools, create template reporting.\nYou Have: \nA bachelor's degree in business, finance or economics. A Master’s degree (MBA, MA in Finance etc.) is beneficial.\nMinimum 3 years+ experience at a top tier private equity firm, investment bank and/or consulting firm.\nStrong quantitative skills, highly organised and pay extreme attention to detail.\nStrong ability to leverage Excel to manage, simplify, analyse and present large and complex datasets.\nStrong financial modeling and corporate valuation skills.\nPrior experience preparing reports, presentations and memos, able to put your thoughts in writing in a clear, succinct, and comprehensive manner.\nExperience working with cross-functional teams or departments, able to work closely with others whose expertise is different to your own.\nDemonstrated good judgement, take initiative and seek guidance when needed in order to advance your projects.\nStrong drive and motivation and adhere to the highest professional standards in working with clients and colleagues.\nAdditional European language skills are a plus.\nYou Are:\nA self-starter with a strong work ethic\nA leader of others; you lead by example\nA strong team player, able to work with team members across all levels\nAble to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary\nComfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing).\nExcited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth\nFull of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organisation\nKnowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies\nPassionate about delivering exceptional client service\nSomeone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work\nWilling to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture\nAccordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, or any other status protected under law.\nPlease note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. 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