Financial Modelling Analyst EPM (9 Month Contract) at Pillangó Placements

• The focus will be on creating the budgeting, cost allocation, profitability and management reporting models to support the first Enterprise Performance Management build for a major digital banking programme.
• The role is fully remote, although travel to Cairo may be required every two to three months for approximately one week. This is a nine-month contract offering the chance to work on a rare greenfield banking transformation.

Duties / Key Responsibilities

• Build a driver-based Year 1 budget aligned with the approved business plan.
• Create flexible scenario models that allow leaders to test different assumptions.
• Prepare SAP-compatible budget publication files and validate loaded figures.
• Build cost allocation models covering direct charges, overhead recovery and unallocated variances.
• Develop product, legal entity and customer profitability models.
• Produce product P&Ls across deposits, cards, payments, foreign exchange and lending.
• Build separate and consolidated entity P&Ls, including intercompany treatment.
• Develop a management reporting suite of up to 20 reports.
• Create an executive dashboard covering board-level KPIs, trends, thresholds and status indicators.
• Participate in budget review sessions and manage changes to assumptions.
• Test models and reports against agreed requirements before handover.
• Document assumptions, calculations, controls, data sources and maintenance procedures.
• Translate financial model logic into specifications for future BI and platform development.
• Track delivery risks, dependencies and missing data.

Requirements

• At least five years’ experience in FP&A, financial modelling, budgeting or cost allocation.
• Strong experience in banking, financial services or finance transformation.
• Advanced Excel modelling skills, including scenarios, structured calculations, version control and validation checks.
• Experience preparing SAP CO budget inputs, cost-centre planning outputs or similar system files.
• Practical experience building cost allocation, product P&L or customer profitability models.
• Good knowledge of budgeting, forecasting and scenario planning.
• Understanding of cost allocation and profitability principles within financial services.
• Exposure to digital banking, EPM implementation or large finance transformation programmes.
• SAP CO, Power BI, EPM platforms or lakehouse reporting experience would be beneficial.
• Jira and Confluence experience would be useful.

Education

• BCom degree or another relevant finance, accounting or business qualification.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Able to turn complex requirements into models that are clear, controlled and maintainable.
• Comfortable working with incomplete data and changing assumptions.
• Disciplined approach to governance, audit trails and version control.
• Able to work within an agreed framework without unnecessarily redesigning it.
• Clear communicator who raises risks and dependencies early.
• Comfortable working remotely across different teams and locations.