Description
Excel Modeller - Banking - Gloucester - Circa £370 per day
A major retail bank requires an experienced Excel Modeller as part of their major divestment project. The purpose of this role is to evolve the business modelling infrastructure for this divestment project's forecasting team within the mortgages department. You will support the forecasting and reporting processes through provision of planning infrastructure to support the medium term planning process and business as usual reporting processes.
You will be required to take charge of this initial model set to facilitate the forecasting process, before later integrating and transforming the models to fulfil future requirements of the divestment project. You will also need to be able to gather and analyse relevant information from a wide range of sources and reflect this thinking in models.
The role's key accountabilities will be as follows:
You will manage the full development life cycle of a new modelling and reporting suite, from scoping the development to setting up appropriate project documentation and agreeing timelines with key stakeholders.
You will forge relationships with a variety of teams and subject matter experts in mortgages to understand and challenge existing forecast methodologies and infrastructure. It will also be necessary for you to continuously seek opportunities to improve insight and efficiency, build this into modelling solutions.
You will need to engage with Business Intelligence teams to develop Verde specific mortgage data to underpin the modelling process. Also, you will continue to influence the direction of MI, to ensure that it will support continual refinement and improvement of the divestment project's modelling.
You will also maintain a robust control environment, by adhering to internal infrastructure development life cycle standards and change processes. You will be required to undertake sufficient testing to ensure that the model meets requirements and is fit for purpose.
Finally you will also need to provide support for changes to existing models and infrastructure.
Role will be based in Barnwood 1 in Gloucester. Travel to Leeds/Halifax may be required on an ad-hoc basis.
There will be a 45-50 minute short competency based interview followed by discussion on technical capability/experience. Interview will be held at: Lloyds Banking Group, Barnett Way, Barnwood, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 3RL.
Please submit your CV to be considered.
We will contact you within 72 hours if your skills are relevant to our client's requirement. EA Consulting Group is acting as an Employment Business for this role under the CEAEBR 2003.