Graduate Data Analyst

Graduate Data Analyst

Department: Business Advisory

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Manchester

Reporting To: Sorina Gheorghita

Description We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Data Analyst to join our Transaction Services team. If you enjoy using data to reach insights or are passionate about a career in M&A, this role may be suitable for you! You will be supporting the transaction services team to transform complex data sets into insights for deals, helping to evaluate financial performance, identify trends and assess risk and value drivers.
Key Responsibilities What your day to day may look like

• Collect, clean, and validate large financial and operational datasets from target companies and clients.
• Assist in identifying anomalies, inconsistencies, or red flags in data.
• Design and build data models to support due diligence analysis.
• Perform quantitative analysis to assess historical performance through the key metrics of the target companies.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations to drive insights.
• Help to prepare client deliverables such as visuals to include in reports.
• Automate routine data extraction and reporting tasks to improve efficiency.
• Maintain strict data confidentiality and adhere to data governance and compliance standards.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Requirements

• We are looking for someone who is passionate about problem solving and keen to develop their data analytics skills.
• Graduating this summer with a bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics / Data Analytics, Mathematics, Data Science, or any related field.
• Ideally can demonstrate hands on experience (this may be through a summer internship, or any equivalent experience gained during your time at university, for e.g. through projects, dissertations and presentations).
• You will have knowledge and experience of using data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, SQL or equivalent) or a strong desire to learn.

Benefits What you can expect at Cowgills

• We are a growing team and we believe that investing time and money in training and developing our people is key to our success.
• Your existing knowledge will be complemented through internal coaching and training, as well as external training relating to both deals and analytics.
• This is a great opportunity for someone joining straight out of university as you will be working alongside and learning from a team of professionals with decades of experience and established reputation in the market.

As a team, we enjoy a lot of fun activities through a combination of team, office and company-wide events. You can find out about this and more on our website! Note that whilst our business has a head office in Bolton and several other offices across the North-West, this role is 100% based in Manchester, near Spinningfields.