Finance Business Analyst – Pricing Project (Investment Management)
Posted Today by Be | Shaping the Future UK
Negotiable
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London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Finance and Pricing Analyst focuses on supporting a high-priority pricing data project within Investment Management. This hands-on position requires expertise in data analysis, validation, and Excel model development to enhance the quality and usability of financial data. The analyst will collaborate with various teams to ensure accurate reporting and effective decision-making. The contract is initially for six months with an immediate start expected.
Key Responsibilities:
- Consolidate and reconcile pricing and financial data from multiple sources into a clean, structured master dataset
- Perform data cleansing (de-duplication, gap analysis, mapping corrections)
- Conduct pricing validation and sense-checks, including comparable analysis and tolerance thresholds
- Identify stale or anomalous pricing and flag, track, and support resolution of pricing exceptions and data issues
- Build robust, repeatable Excel models to support pricing analysis and reporting
- Design structured inputs/outputs, clear assumptions, and documentation
- Implement practical controls and validation checks across pricing processes
- Establish exception reporting, issue tracking, and audit trails for pricing assumptions and overrides
- Work closely with Finance, Client Group, and data owners to obtain and validate datasets
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders to maintain delivery momentum
Key Skills:
- Solid Investment Management experience
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst / Finance Analyst within a data or change environment
- Sound understanding of pricing, valuation, or financial data processes
- Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and data reconciliation techniques
- Experience working with messy/incomplete data and delivering pragmatic solutions
- Clear and effective stakeholder communication skills
- Experience querying data sources such as GDW, Salesforce, or Snowflake (desirable)
- Understanding of financial accounting concepts (desirable)
- SQL or data querying capability (desirable)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We are seeking an experienced Finance and Pricing Analyst with Investment Management experience to support a high-priority pricing data project. This will initially be a six-month contract, with a swift start anticipated. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role centred on improving the quality, integrity and usability of pricing and financial data, enabling more accurate reporting and commercial decision-making. You will work closely with Finance, Client Group and Data teams, taking ownership of complex datasets and building robust, repeatable pricing solutions in Excel.
The Role
We are looking for a hands-on "doer” who is comfortable:
- Working directly in Excel and data
- Dealing with imperfect / incomplete datasets
- Delivering pragmatic solutions at pace
Your work will directly support pricing validation, controls and reporting outputs used by the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Pricing Data Analysis & Validation
- Consolidate and reconcile pricing and financial data from multiple sources into a clean, structured master dataset
- Perform data cleansing (de-duplication, gap analysis, mapping corrections)
- Conduct pricing validation and sense-checks, including:
- Comparable analysis
- Tolerance thresholds
- Identification of stale or anomalous pricing
- Flag, track and support resolution of pricing exceptions and data issues
- Excel Model & Template Development
- Build robust, repeatable Excel models to support pricing analysis and reporting
- Design:
- Structured inputs / outputs
- Clear assumptions and documentation
- Automated or simplified processes
- Reduce manual intervention and ensure models are sustainable month-on-month
- Controls & Governance
- Implement practical controls and validation checks across pricing processes
- Establish:
- Exception reporting
- Issue tracking
- Audit trails for pricing assumptions and overrides
- Support the introduction of basic governance and sign-off processes
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with Finance, Client Group and data owners to:
- Obtain and validate datasets
- Agree materiality thresholds and tolerances
- Align on “fit-for-purpose” vs longer-term data remediation
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders to maintain delivery momentum
- Solid Investment Management experience (critical)
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst / Finance Analyst within a data or change environment
- Sound understanding of pricing, valuation or financial data processes
- Advanced Excel skills, including:
- Complex formulas and data handling
- Pivot tables
- Data reconciliation and validation techniques
- Building structured models
- Demonstrated experience working with messy / incomplete data and delivering pragmatic solutions
- Clear and effective stakeholder communication skills
- Experience querying data sources such as GDW, Salesforce or Snowflake
- Understanding of financial accounting concepts
- Experience supporting Finance transformation or data remediation initiatives
- SQL or data querying capability
- Highly detail-oriented and delivery-focused
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-paced environments
- Analytical mindset with commercial awareness
- Proactive, collaborative, and confident engaging senior stakeholders
- Work on a critical pricing initiative with direct business impact
- High visibility across Finance and Client functions
- Opportunity to shape data quality, controls and pricing outputs in a complex environment
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