Pear Talent is representing a FTSE100 financial services group, recognised as one of the best places in the UK to work, who have an excellent opportunity for an Investor Relations Manager in the City. Following the Group’s rapid growth, the level of coverage from both sell-side analysts and investors has increased significantly, as has the level of complexity in the business. The Group is also actively pursuing a strategy to diversify its investor base beyond the UK into America and Europe.
The Investor Relations Finance Manager will lead the Group’s engagement with sell-side analysts to a managed consensus and ensure consistency in the use of financial data in external messaging. You will also help drive forward the way that the investor relations team shapes the reporting of Group results to market and the evolution the Company’s equity story to investors. The role will interact with investors and analysts as a professional ambassador for the Group as required and take a lead role in developing the financial metrics used to present future M&A opportunities to market.
Key accountabilities:
- To lead on the Group’s engagement with the sell-side analysts.
- To lead on responding to financial and technical Q&A received from analysts and investors
- To act as a link between the IR team and the business to ensure that IR have a robust understanding of the key drivers of business performance and develop these into the equity story, including the evolution of the Group’s key reporting metrics
- To lead on peer analysis across the sector
- To lead monitoring of share price performance and provide analysis with reference to market conditions and sector trends
- To prepare briefing materials for EXCO
Required experience:
- Qualified accountant or actuary with post qualified experience
- A strong financial services background, ideally knowledge of Insurance (Solvency II and IFRS)
- Able to understand the complexities of the financial drivers of the business
- Strong financial analytical skills to understand financial modelling of the sell side analysts
- Excellent communication skills – the ability to understand and explain complex concepts simply. Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills – able to interact with a wide variety of people including very senior internal and external stakeholders and to work within a team to deliver under extreme time pressure
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