Financial Modeller Responsibilities and Core Skills
- Build financial models in excel based on historical information and other available industry-specific operating metrics.
- Conduct scenario and sensitivity analysis with the intent to support investment activities and access business risk
- Evaluate companies using various financial valuation methods, such as DCF, comparable company analysis, capital structure analysis etc.
- Ensure the current models accuracy while enhancing the existing models quality.
- Recommend and implement process improvement measures.
- Identify key financial and non-financial risks and advise mitigants for those risks.
- Update the financial models after each earnings rollout or other similar corporate actions.
- Analyze and identify data required to support model tracking.
- Develop template models to allow for quick economic project evaluation where possible
- Preparing management presentations based on the outputs from financial models to support decision making.
Core Skills and Knowledge
- Advanced excellent excel skills with good proficiency in using pre-defined formulas, creating charts, macros, what if analysis, pivot tables, VBA code etc. Also, knowledge of another programming language (such as Python and Power BI Skills)
- Knowledge of basic accounting concepts
- Problem solving ability
- Time management
- Ability to build a model which is easy to understand