Company Description
We connect the world’s top investors and business leaders to the insights that shape investment decisions. From private equity firms and hedge funds to leading consultancies, our clients count on us to find the exact expert they need - fast.
Since 2007, we’ve grown to 1,500+ people across global financial hubs, becoming a trusted research partner to thousands of decision-makers. This is where ambitious people come to accelerate their careers.
Job Description
The Financial Analyst will sit within the Consolidation pillar of the FP&A function and play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and scalability of the Group’s financial data and reporting. You will support the consolidation of results across business units and underpin the management reporting, forecasting, and planning outputs used by senior Finance leadership.
This position is designed for a self-starter in the early stages of their FP&A career who is keen to develop a deep technical understanding of financial data, models, and systems. The Financial Analyst will work hands-on with complex datasets, consolidation models, and reporting tools, while proactively seeking opportunities to improve data processing, automation, and efficiency.
The role offers exposure to group-level financial consolidation and close collaboration with FP&A stakeholders, providing a strong foundation for progression into broader FP&A, commercial finance, or finance leadership roles.
Core Responsibilities:
- Financial Consolidation & Data Integrity
- Support the month-end consolidation process across all business units, ensuring timely, accurate, and complete financial data.
- Partner closely with the central FP&A team and wider Finance stakeholders during month-end close and forecast cycles.
- Maintain clear documentation and controls to ensure consistency, transparency, and data integrity.
- Reporting & Performance Analysis
- Support the production of recurring management reporting packs, dashboards, KPIs, and analysis for month-end, forecasting, and three-year planning cycles.
- Deliver clear, structured variance analysis and performance insights to support FP&A discussions and decision-making.
- Models, Tools & Forecast Support
- Maintain, enhance, and develop a strong understanding of the models, tools and data flows used for forecasting, budgeting, and multi-year planning.
- Support the consolidation of Business Unit forecasts into a Group-level view, ensuring alignment to agreed assumptions and data structures.
- Assist with scenario analysis and ad-hoc modelling as required.
- Data Development & Process Improvement
- Proactively seek out and teach yourself new data processing, modelling, and efficiency techniques to improve accuracy, speed, and scalability
- Identify and support opportunities to automate, streamline, and standardise recurring forecasting and reporting processes, helping reduce manual effort and risk of error while building scalable, well-documented workflows and processes.
Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of basic accounting principle and financial analysis concepts
- Solid working experience of Excel, confident use of PowerPoint
- Financial modelling skills
- Experience working with large datasets
- Attention to detail, and solid analytical and problem-solving skills
- Robust organisation skills, experience of month-end and other deadlines, and ability to keep track of priorities
- Capability to work unaided and “in the grey”
- Ability to work in an agile and nimble fashion
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrable interpersonal skills with aptitude for relationship-building
- Experience partnering with people outside of their reporting structure
- Ability to work in teams effectively
Additional Information
How will you be rewarded?
- Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary reflective of your skills and experience.
- Time Off: Benefit from 18 days of paid time off (PTO), 8 fixed holidays, 1 floating holiday, and 8 casual leaves. PTO increases with tenure.
- Learning & Development: Receive a personal development reimbursement yearly for customised learning programs. Additionally, a dedicated budget supports studies and job-related qualifications.
- Health & Well-being: Access private medical insurance, maternity benefits, and engage in various events promoting mental health.
- Life Cover: Automatically enrolled in Life Insurance cover from your date of hire, providing coverage 4x the annual CTC.
- Flexibility: Embrace our work-from-anywhere policy, and hybrid work options
- Fun at Work: Unwind in our breakout area with games like foosball, Table Tennis, and PlayStation5.
- Snacks & Refreshments: Stay energised with daily snacks, tea, and coffee provided.
- CSR Days: Contribute to social responsibility with 2 CSR days annually – take time off to volunteer.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Third Bridge is proud to foster diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under local laws.
The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country they are applying
We know that to be truly innovative, we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Third Bridge is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you are not 100% sure if you are right for the role, please apply anyway and we will be happy to consider your application.
