Strategic Finance Consultant

Job Description
Overview
Following recent changes within Nucleus' finance leadership, the Head of Strategic Finance is building a small team to strengthen the organisation's financial control and commercial insight capability. This team will play a key role in helping the business make better decisions, informing and challenging plans and opportunities, preparing the business for future activity and supporting investor reporting. Key current deliverables include ensuring clarity and accuracy across financial data from historic transactions. Reviewing the read across to current data and plan. And producing models to aid planning and better inform performance. The team are also Finance point contact to investors and partner the business strategy team.

Purpose of the Role
These roles will focus on interpreting and reconciling financial data from multiple sources, producing clear, accurate insights that underpin decision-making. Working within a small, hands-on environment, successful candidates will help to establish structure and control across historical financial records, supporting both operational and strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Retrieve, reconcile and analyse historical and current financial data across various business areas (revenue, costs, balance sheet and cashflows).
• Investigate incomplete or inconsistent data records, ensuring data integrity and accuracy.
• Support the Head of Strategic in collating and preparing internal data for business use in formats which can also be used for due diligence M&A activity.
• Develop datasets to support future FP&A workstreams and commercial analysis.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure clarity around performance metrics and investor reporting.
• Contribute to the establishment of a new strategic finance team structure.

Candidate Profile

• Qualified accountant with experience in financial control within financial services.
• Strong analytical ability and a methodical approach to data reconciliation and investigation.
• Comfortable working with large, complex datasets in Excel (other data tools experience beneficial but not essential).
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and communicate financial insights clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Adaptable, hands-on, and able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, changeable environment.
• Team-oriented, with an interest in helping to shape new processes and reporting structures.

Reporting & Structure

• Initially working alongside one senior financial control contractor.
• Potential future expansion into FP&A, partnering and Strategic Finance functions as the team evolves.

A little about us

We are the Nucleus Group Services Limited and we help make retirement more rewarding. Here at Nucleus, people come first - whether it's our colleagues, or the advisers and customers we support, we know that working in partnership and collaboration leads to the best outcomes. Together, we've shaped the platform to how it is today. We work hard, and we celebrate hard too.

Our ambition is to create a platform with a difference, putting the customer centre stage meant tearing up the rule book and starting from scratch. We've come a long way since then, but our mission remains just as focused. That's why our culture, values, and social responsibility are things we keep at the top of our agenda – because we know they matter and have a big impact.

Our culture is one of the many things that sets us apart from the pack. We want to have an environment where our people feel that they can make a real difference, know they'll be rewarded for their efforts and more importantly, enjoy themselves at work.

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Inclusion and diversity at Nucleus

As with most things in life, who cares, wins. We really care about inclusion.

For us it's not a tick box exercise; inclusion and diversity are embedded in our culture and everything we do. It's a commercial imperative. It isn't about being PC. It's about being future-relevant and durable. We owe it to ourselves and the industry to ensure we are playing our part in creating a fair, balanced and transparent financial services sector.

More diversity means broader experience, a wider set of perspectives and a better collective ability to problem-solve. And it means being more representative of customer groups, which supports areas such as product development.