Interim Financial Modeller

A leading UK financial institution in the East Midlands is seeking an Interim Financial Modeller for a 6-month contract. You’ll rebuild complex financial models and support key decisions across budgeting, forecasting, capital planning and commercial analysis. Working collaboratively across the business, you’ll use your expertise to improve financial processes, strengthen forecasting and deliver insights that drive performance and support future growth.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Transforming financial models: Lead the complete rebuild of inherited models, improving their structure, accuracy and reliability while ensuring clear logic and robust documentation.
• Building integrated models: Design, develop and maintain sophisticated models covering profit and loss, balance sheets, capital planning, liquidity management and cash flow.
• Supporting budgeting and forecasting: Contribute to annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting, translating strategic business initiatives into measurable financial outcomes.
• Delivering financial insights: Conduct scenario analysis, sensitivity testing and stress testing to assess potential risks, opportunities and the financial impact of different business strategies.
• Improving data quality: Review and clean historical data, challenge assumptions and introduce effective forecasting methodologies to strengthen the quality of financial information.
• Driving commercial analysis: Evaluate profitability across products, customer segments and channels, including the impact of pricing changes, funding strategies and growth initiatives.
• Influencing strategic decisions: Analyse actual performance against forecasts, identify key business drivers and present clear, actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Planning for the future: Develop long-term financial forecasts aligned with organisational objectives, capital requirements and business priorities.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for a technically strong Financial Modeller who can combine excellent modelling expertise with commercial awareness and a collaborative approach. You’ll be comfortable working with complex financial data, challenging existing assumptions and transforming inherited models into effective tools for business planning and decision-making.

You’ll ideally have:

• Extensive experience designing, building and maintaining complex, integrated financial models within a banking or commercial environment.
• A strong understanding of financial forecasting, including profit and loss, balance sheets, capital planning, liquidity and cash flow.
• Proven experience supporting annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and long-term financial planning.
• Strong knowledge of scenario analysis, sensitivity testing and stress testing to assess financial risks and business opportunities.
• Experience reviewing and improving inherited financial models, cleansing historical data and ensuring accuracy, transparency.
• A thorough understanding of model documentation, assumptions tracking and version control.
• Experience modelling banking products such as lending, savings and treasury, with an understanding of pricing, funding and profitability.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail and the ability to turn complex information into clear recommendations.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to work effectively with stakeholders and teams across the organisation.

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