ACT Europe
Strategic Finance Analyst
Full-time | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Job-ID: 6337734002
Your Role in Our Story:
The Strategic Finance Analyst strengthens ACT Group’s FP&A capabilities by providing advanced financial modelling, strategic analysis, and market-driven insights to support executive decision-making and long-term value creation. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to Head of FP&A.
The role sits at the intersection of financial planning, strategy, and market intelligence, supporting strategic initiatives such as investments, partnerships, acquisitions, and new product development. You will contribute to Group-level forecasting, scenario analysis, and long-range planning by translating strategic and market assumptions into robust financial projections. In essence, your role involves:
Financial Modelling & Scenario Analysis
- Build, maintain, and enhance robust financial models for strategic initiatives, including investments, partnerships, and product development.
- Perform cash flow analysis, IRR calculations, value-creation assessments, and sensitivity and scenario modelling.
- Challenge assumptions, stress-test outcomes, and ensure analytical robustness, consistency, and transparency.
Market, Industry & Risk Analysis
- Conduct market and industry research to support strategic and commercial decision-making.
- Monitor regulatory developments, competitive dynamics, and market trends relevant to ACT’s activities.
- Identify key financial, operational, and commercial risks and translate them into quantitative scenarios.
Strategic & Investment Support
- Support the evaluation of acquisition opportunities, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships.
- Contribute to due diligence by reviewing business models, financial assumptions, and underlying data.
- Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to consolidate inputs, identify value drivers, and assess risks.
FP&A, Forecasting & Data-Driven Insights
- Support Group FP&A activities including forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, and ad-hoc scenario analysis.
- Translate strategic, commercial, and market-driven assumptions into structured financial projections.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of planning methodologies, analytical frameworks, and modelling standards.
Executive & Decision-Making Materials
- Prepare high-quality financial analyses, business cases, and presentations for senior management.
- Synthesize complex analyses into clear, decision-oriented insights.
- Ensure transparency, consistency, and auditability of assumptions, methodologies, and outputs.
Your Expertise:
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes:
- 5 - 8 years of experience in transaction services, investment analysis, strategy consulting, corporate development or comparable analytical role.
- Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Business Administration or related quantitative field.
- Strong financial modelling skills, with the ability to build models from scratch.
- Solid understanding of financial statements, cash flow dynamics and value drivers.
- Advanced Excel skills is required.
- Ability to analyse market data, industry reports, and regulatory information.
- Commercially minded with the ability to translate modelling output to business decision.
- Clear and structured communicator in English, with the ability to present findings to senior stakeholders.
- Curious, proactive and grounded.
If you meet these criteria and are ready to contribute your expertise to a dynamic and challenging environment, we encourage you to apply.