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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 problems alongside a team of finance and technology professionals in a supportive, collaborative environment.\nBacked by leading private equity investors, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm with a global presence. We are looking for people who want to help build something great and make a lasting impact.\nAbout the role\nAccordion’s Data & AI team in London designs the data foundations that private equity-backed businesses use to run their value creation plans. As Director, Data Solutions, you’ll own the architecture, data operating model and client relationship. You’ll work out what the business needs and why, shape the design, define how data is owned, governed and managed, and lead delivery with our engineering teams in India. Every platform is tied to measured value. You’ll work alongside our finance transformation teams and colleagues who have been CFOs and operators, so you’re always leading delivery based on the decisions the data serves.\nThis role will 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:\nLead data assessments and diagnostics for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies. Evaluate existing platforms, data flows, engineering practices, analytics capabilities and governance, identifying root causes and priorities for improvement.\nTranslate business needs and assessment findings into a clear data strategy and delivery roadmap, with defined investment requirements, dependencies and measurable outcomes.\nAdvise clients on target data architecture and technology selection. Recommend solutions that fit their business needs, existing systems and internal capabilities, balancing performance, security, cost and future growth.\nLead the design and delivery of data engineering and analytics solutions, from source integration and data pipelines through to analytical models, reporting and adoption. Connect delivery to decisions across finance, operations and commercial teams.\nShape semantic layers that establish consistent business definitions, metrics and relationships across data. Enable reporting, analytics, AI applications and agents to work from a shared understanding of the business.\nMake structured and unstructured data ready for AI and agents. Establish the metadata, lineage, quality and security controls needed for reliable retrieval and use, including permissions, sensitive data handling and auditable access.\nDesign and embed data operating models and governance frameworks. Define ownership, stewardship, decision rights and responsibilities across business and technology teams, including how data initiatives are prioritised, funded and supported.\nGuide master data management (MDM), establishing trusted records for core entities such as customers, products and suppliers, with clear rules for matching, maintaining and sharing data across systems.\nEstablish data quality frameworks covering profiling, business rules, quality thresholds, monitoring and remediation. Agree accountability with data owners and address issues at source.\nAct as a senior client adviser throughout delivery. Lead teams across the UK and India, review critical design decisions, manage engagement scope and quality, and develop managers and technical leads.\nShape proposals and commercial estimates, explain recommendations to senior stakeholders and identify opportunities to extend client relationships through useful, well-delivered work.\nRegularly and extensively travel across Europe to work with clients in the relevant jurisdictions\nWhat You'll Bring:\nStrong consulting skills, developed in a consulting firm or an industry role, with the ability to understand business problems, challenge assumptions and guide stakeholders towards practical decisions.\nConfidence working through ambiguity: asking incisive questions, testing hypotheses and bringing structure to incomplete or conflicting information.\nThe ability to shape solutions from an initial business need, define scope, assess options and explain recommendations, trade-offs and delivery priorities.\nStrong advisory and communication skills, including facilitating workshops, building trust with senior clients or internal stakeholders and presenting technical recommendations in clear business terms.\nStrong architecture judgement across modern data platforms, integration patterns and analytical systems. Depth in platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks or Microsoft Fabric/Azure, with the ability to assess alternatives against business requirements.\nA grounding in data engineering, including ingestion, transformation, data modelling and pipeline reliability. Sufficient technical depth to challenge designs, review engineering decisions and guide delivery teams.\nExperience delivering analytics solutions that business teams use, including semantic models, consistent KPI definitions and reporting that supports financial and operational decisions.\nA practical understanding of the data foundations required for AI and agents, including structured and unstructured data, business context, metadata, lineage and secure, permission-aware access.\nExperience designing and implementing data operating models, governance, MDM and data quality frameworks, with clear accountability and processes that organisations can sustain.\nExperience leading teams and complex data initiatives, within an organisation or across client engagements, with sound judgement on scope, resources, costs and delivery risks.\nA depth of experience typically developed over 10+ years in consulting, data and technology leadership, or a related industry role, with a track record of shaping and delivering complex initiatives.\nAn understanding of private equity and the needs of portfolio company CFOs, or experience working in environments where investment decisions and delivery must demonstrate clear business value.\nAccordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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