Assistant Director - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
Canary Wharf (London), Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Manchester
Salary: £71,370 - £77,300

Hours:
Full time / Part time / Flexible

Contract:
Permanent

The Competition and Market Authority's Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis Group offers a career defining opportunity for a commercially astute professional to play a key role in contributing to our mission to make markets work well for consumers,businesses, and the UK economy.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is a world-leading government agency, working to promote competition for the benefit of consumers.

Keeping markets competitive is more important than ever, as people struggle with the rising cost of living andbusinesses seek to grow following the coronavirus pandemic.

The Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis team is the CMA's centre of excellence for all aspects of remedies work and for providing commercial and financial expertise across the CMA's varied casework.

As Assistant Director, you will play a central role in this work.

As the lead advisor across a range of cases, you will be responsible for providing high quality and timely commercial and financial analysis to support key decisions.

Working closely together with CMA colleagues in multi-disciplinary project teams, you willinvestigate, analyse and advise upon financial and/or business issues across a range of CMA cases.

You will be responsible for delivering and explaining analysis that informs the CMA's understanding of how businesses and markets are operating, and in the eventthat it is necessary to intervene, you will play a central role in finding and implementing effective, real-world solutions to the problems we find.

To be considered for this role, you will need a postgraduate business, finance or accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, MSc or MBA) or equivalent professional experience.

You will offer significant relevant commercial and financial analyticaland interpretive experience, including an understanding of business models in different industries, generating insights from complex information and evidencing accounting knowledge and numeracy.

Alongside this, you will also need the ability to build and sustainconstructive working relationships, combined with strong oral and written communication skills.

The CMA is a hugely rewarding, diverse and stimulating place to work an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so. All CMA staff enjoy generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme, at least 25 daysleave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interestfree season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, and favourable consideration of flexible working.

The CMA is an accredited Disability Confident Employer.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds and recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission'srecruitment principles.

To find out more about this opportunity and about working for the CMA, please click on the APPLY button.

Closing date: 11:55pm on 16 January 2023.
The CMA is an accredited Disability Confident Employer.