Strategic Finance Analyst (FP&A)

Your Role in Our Story:

The Strategic Finance Analyst strengthens ACT Group’s FP&A capabilities by providing advanced financial modelling, strategic analysis, and market-driven insights to support executive decision-making and long-term value creation. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to FP&A Manager. The role sits at the intersection of financial planning, strategy, and market intelligence, supporting strategic initiatives such as investments, partnerships, acquisitions, and new product development. You will contribute to Group-level forecasting, scenario analysis, and long-range planning by translating strategic and market assumptions into robust financial projections.

In essence, your role involves:

• Financial Modelling & Scenario Analysis

• Build, maintain, and enhance robust financial models for strategic initiatives, including investments, partnerships, and product development.

• Perform cash flow analysis, IRR calculations, value-creation assessments, and sensitivity and scenario modelling.

• Challenge assumptions, stress-test outcomes, and ensure analytical robustness, consistency, and transparency.

• Market, Industry & Risk Analysis

• Conduct market and industry research to support strategic and commercial decision-making.

• Monitor regulatory developments, competitive dynamics, and market trends relevant to ACT’s activities.

• Identify key financial, operational, and commercial risks and translate them into quantitative scenarios.

• Strategic & Investment Support

• Support the evaluation of acquisition opportunities, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships.

• Contribute to due diligence by reviewing business models, financial assumptions, and underlying data.

• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to consolidate inputs, identify value drivers, and assess risks.

• FP&A, Forecasting & Data-Driven Insights

• Support Group FP&A activities including forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, and ad-hoc scenario analysis.

• Translate strategic, commercial, and market-driven assumptions into structured financial projections.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of planning methodologies, analytical frameworks, and modelling standards.

• Executive & Decision-Making Materials

• Prepare high-quality financial analyses, business cases, and presentations for senior management.

• Synthesize complex analyses into clear, decision-oriented insights.

• Ensure transparency, consistency, and auditability of assumptions, methodologies, and outputs.

Your Expertise:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes:

• 5 - 8 years of experience in transaction services, investment analysis, strategy consulting, corporate development or comparable analytical role.

• Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Business Administration or related quantitative field.

• Strong financial modelling skills, with the ability to build models from scratch.

• Solid understanding of financial statements, cash flow dynamics and value drivers.

• Advanced Excel skills (required); experience with planning or BI tools (e.g. Anaplan, Power BI) is an advantage.

• Ability to analyse market data, industry reports, and regulatory information.

• Commercially minded with the ability to translate modelling output to business decision.

• Clear and structured communicator in English, with the ability to present findings to senior stakeholders.

• Curious, proactive and grounded.

If you meet these criteria and are ready to contribute your expertise to a dynamic and challenging environment, we encourage you to apply.