Financial Modeller

**About the role**
As we continue through an exciting phase of organisational growth and evolution, we are seeking to extend the breadth and depth of our finance service offering and we currently have a great opportunity to join our finance team as an expert financial modeller to support the development, monitoring, and continuous improvement of our finance systems and processes with a focus on financial planning and analysis.
This role plays a pivotal part in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our modelling suite and involves ensuring key-decision making models are robust and remain within risk appetite, and includes portfolio elements of financial planning.
**You'll spend your time**
- Maintaining, developing and streamlining existing financial planning and analysis models covering revenue, staff costs, other costs, consolidation and budget holder variance analysis
- Collaborating with other areas of finance to support the re-engineering of upstream feeder systems to ensure efficient, complete and controlled data flows into FP&A models
- Working closely with the BI team, developers, third party providers and finance colleagues develop efficient information distribution solutions to best meet customer needs
- As we improve our financial systems developing lead modeller report writing and analysis skills on the new architecture
- Expertly structuring static and large volumes of financial data supporting model scalability and future proofing
- Acting as a financial modelling centre of excellence, developing and promoting modelling standards and controls for the wider finance function, including providing modelling training and support to the wider finance team
- Bringing innovative solutions to modelling problems

**A bit about you**
Your friends would probably describe you as the 'innovative' one. You're the type of person who likes to take something and make it better and thrives in an environment where you can use you analytical and creative problem solving skills. Methodical and structured with a forward-looking perspective, you have a real focus on making sure nothing is missed and love having a lot going on.
**We've always placed more importance on cultural contribution above technical ability, but we'd really like you to have**:

- Significant experience of complex financial model specification, build, testing, go live, maintenance and continuous improvements
- Suitable training of and experience with best practice spreadsheet modelling methodologies and standards e.g. (FAST, BPSM, other)
- Advanced level Excel skills (adapt at using pivots, macros, Sumifs, xlookups, data tables)
- Aptitude for presenting financial information succinctly
- Rigorous implementation of data integrity and completeness controls experience
- Flexible and adaptable
- Able to prioritise the high impact work, and work under the pressure of short or changing deadlines without impacting quality or accuracy
- Excellent relationship building skills

**A little about us**
We are the Nucleus Financial Platforms group 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.
At Nucleus, we offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including a non-contributory pension, bonus, enhanced parental leave, paid time off for emergencies, health and wellbe