In Deals we solve the important problems that stand in the way of value being created, sustained, realised or protected for our clients – working together to aid responsible recovery and growth.

We put together major mergers and acquisitions and resolve business crises – from international take-over bids to financial crime investigations and cases of insolvency. Our teams work on iconic deals with national and global clients as well as operating and investing in businesses, new ventures and entrepreneurs in our local market and communities. It’s both a responsibility and a privilege to guide our clients through moments that matter deeply to them. Our breadth of clients in an ever-changing market means we need to be agile – responding when we need to, in a way that really makes a difference.

We draw upon our deals experience across many industries to support and partner with our clients, to positively impact society and the communities in which we operate. The insight we create, coupled with the innovative tools and methodologies we use to access and evaluate the data that matters, contributes to the success of our clients in all Deals situations. We encourage our clients to think more broadly – connecting their actions today with their successes tomorrow. We help our clients throughout the Deals lifecycle to create lasting value for their businesses.

Each of our key areas within Deals, delivers services to the market individually or together by combining our specialists to provide comprehensive client solutions.

About the team

Our Deals business is exciting, fast-paced and ever-growing. It focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we assist with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

Our Deals practice supports clients through mergers, acquisitions, and responses to financial distress. The Deals Tech team is a centre of excellence for embedding and enabling technology across our Deals practice.

We help our Deals business go to market with compelling data analysis and automation technology. We are currently looking for a bright, enthusiastic, and hungry individual to help expand the reach of the team.

You can expect a challenging and rewarding career that will provide you with opportunities to work with our client engagement teams along with other parts of the business. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn new technologies, further develop your skills and advance your career with a market leading employer.

About the role

You will be helping to design and drive the development of a high-profile data and insights platform that leverages multiple information sources, to increase the efficiency and value of our work for clients, through a series of proof of concepts. The software applications and business databases you help build will be used across a broad range of Deals engagements. Projects will mostly be new, so you will have the opportunity to architect and develop solutions free from legacy constraints and have significant input on the technical direction of projects.

Your responsibilities will include but may not be limited to:

• Working with the team and client-facing staff to develop proof of concepts for various use cases from scratch.
• Taking ownership of certain areas within the project, ensuring stability and integrity of the existing codebase while managing new requirements.
• Development of new features and improvements within the team’s existing codebase
• Testing software and implementing fixes/code refactoring as necessary.
• Assisting in the evaluation, selection, installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade, and support of software applications within the firm.
• Producing technical documentation
• Taking part in code reviews and providing input on architectural decisions.

Requirements

If you are naturally inquisitive, have an analytical mind and enjoy solving problems in a rigorous and logical manner, for a variety of different businesses, then this is the role for you. Alongside other members of the team you will engage with senior members of our business, helping to solve their business problems and generate value.

You will need experience demonstrating a number of the following skills:

• Understanding the “big picture”, and designing solutions with business results in mind.
• Exceptional analytical and technical aptitude, and enjoyment of problem solving.
• Being comfortable with a degree of ambiguity to come up with creative solutions to complex problems and develop these ideas into structured deliverable projects in a quick, agile, lightweight way as required.
• The ability to manage time, prioritise tasks, self-review your work and produce deliverables of a high quality under tight client deadlines in time pressured environments, both individually and collaboratively.
• Passion for technology and new tools and applying and developing yourself to new areas (e.g., quickly getting up to speed with tools, analytical approaches and business challenges) and sharing this knowledge with others; and
• Build collaborative working relationships at all levels, establishing credibility both internally and externally.

Technical skills

• 5+ years professional experience using Python
• Experience developing software for automation and large-scale data analysis
• Experience with ElasticSearch
• Experience with Docker
• Good knowledge of software design patterns and clean code principles.
• Experience with and conceptual understanding of NLP
• Ability to upskill in new languages and/or tools as required
• Experience using version control systems, preferably Git
• An understanding of the Agile development process
• Experience developing web APIs
• Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle

The following skills are also desirable:

• Experience writing and reviewing technical documentation.
• An understanding of cloud services such as Azure, Google Cloud and AWS.
• JavaScript (jQuery, React/Angular).
• Presentation frameworks such as Bootstrap
• Experience working in a corporate deal environment or large professional services firm.

Location

This position can be delivered working from home flexibly but the ability to commute to either our Bristol or London offices, infrequently, is a necessity.

Deals
Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

Not the role for you?
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The skills we look for in future employees
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The Deal
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Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.

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