Senior Analyst, Strategy Modelling
Role Overview
The Transformation organization translates enterprise strategy into measurable outcomes and supports executive decisions through analysis and modelling.
The Senior Analyst builds and maintains forecasting, scenario modelling, and analytical capabilities for business decisions, market changes, and transformation initiatives.
The role combines decision support with data management, system development, quality assurance, and reporting.
The analyst works with Finance, Technology, and business leaders to turn operational and financial data into forecasts, simulations, and recommendations.
Key Skills for This Role
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Work arrangement
- The position requires in-person collaboration up to five days a week; the arrangement may change based on business requirements.
Role overview
The Transformation organization translates enterprise strategy into measurable outcomes and supports executive decisions through analysis and modelling.
The Senior Analyst builds and maintains forecasting, scenario modelling, and analytical capabilities for business decisions, market changes, and transformation initiatives.
The role combines decision support with data management, system development, quality assurance, and reporting.
The analyst works with Finance, Technology, and business leaders to turn operational and financial data into forecasts, simulations, and recommendations.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and maintain enterprise forecasts for demand, operational performance, financial impacts, and business outcomes.
- Model scenarios and business cases for transformation initiatives, opportunities, risks, and investment decisions.
- Integrate operational, financial, and market data from multiple systems and work with data owners to structure required information.
- Maintain analytical logic, allocation methods, assumptions, reports, dashboards, and decision-support tools.
- Prepare executive-ready analysis and recommendations for directors, vice presidents, and executive leadership.
- Identify model, system, process, data-quality, and control issues; perform validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance.
- Monitor industry trends, competitor performance, and market dynamics for strategic opportunities and risks.
- Partner across Finance, Technology, and business teams to implement new analytical capabilities and improve existing solutions.
- Own and improve modelling methodologies, forecasting standards, analytical tools, and documentation.
- Support planning, investment prioritization, and transformation governance with analysis of value, cost, risk, timing, and organizational impact.
Competencies and attributes
- Strategic and analytical mindset to connect operational, financial, and market inputs to credible forecasts and recommendations.
- Advanced quantitative problem-solving and the ability to structure analysis for complex or ambiguous questions.
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, including business cases, investment trade-offs, and financial performance.
- Attention to detail and commitment to data integrity, quality assurance, and analytical rigour.
- The available description continues after the stated competency requirements.
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