Principal Consultant - Consulting & Financial Analytics Specialist
Added 19 Oct · still live
Possible
Sponsorship likelihood
This employer issued few or no visas recently
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£50,200
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2431 (80% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £50,200, and Q5 is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
We pick the code from the advert's text, so it is our best guess, not the employer's. Each code it could be has its own likelihood:
- Possible 2431 (Management consultants and business analysts) · 80% match
- Possible 2422 (Finance and investment analysts and advisers) · 16% match
Your salary route
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2431 Management consultants and business analysts Most likely code | £35,100 | £40,200 | £45,200 | £50,200 |
2422 Finance and investment analysts and advisers Also possible | £33,400 | £36,700 | £41,200 | £45,800 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
A great opportunity for an engaging Principal Consultant with strong analytical skills to play a leading role in the growth our data & analytics capability.
About Q5
Q5 is a global organisation transformation consultancy that brings the Art & Science of Organisation Health to help our clients build better businesses worldwide. Since we were founded in 2009, we have had the privilege to partner with some of the world's leading businesses, providing them with expert analysis, creating dramatic new strategies, overhauling struggling operations, and making sure the right people, are in the right place, doing the right things for the business to thrive.
What sets us apart though is not just what we do but how we do it. We take a partnership approach to our engagements, helping clients to come together and create tailored and comprehensive solutions that work for their business and context. Our working style is highly collaborative, which in practice means we enable their leaders with a structured approach and transformational expertise so that they can define, design, and deploy their vision.
Analytics Hub
We have recently established an ‘Analytics Hub' that provides specialist capability in support of our consulting projects. It is an incredibly exciting time for the business, with the team growing rapidly and working across a wide spread of client challenges including:
We are looking for a Financial Modelling specialist to join our growing Analytics Hub and take on a leading role across multiple assignments. The role will involve advising clients and project teams; supporting business development; and coaching and developing junior consultants. To be successful in the role you will need to bring together solid quantitative skills, general consulting capabilities, and a collaborative, down-to-earth style.
Key Responsibilities
About Q5
Q5 is a global organisation transformation consultancy that brings the Art & Science of Organisation Health to help our clients build better businesses worldwide. Since we were founded in 2009, we have had the privilege to partner with some of the world's leading businesses, providing them with expert analysis, creating dramatic new strategies, overhauling struggling operations, and making sure the right people, are in the right place, doing the right things for the business to thrive.
What sets us apart though is not just what we do but how we do it. We take a partnership approach to our engagements, helping clients to come together and create tailored and comprehensive solutions that work for their business and context. Our working style is highly collaborative, which in practice means we enable their leaders with a structured approach and transformational expertise so that they can define, design, and deploy their vision.
Analytics Hub
We have recently established an ‘Analytics Hub' that provides specialist capability in support of our consulting projects. It is an incredibly exciting time for the business, with the team growing rapidly and working across a wide spread of client challenges including:
- Financial analysis and scenario modelling to support strategic reorientation
- Analysis in support of operating model redesign
- Business transformation to reduce operating costs
- Modelling future state workforce needs
- Designing strategic management dashboards
- Culture diagnostics drawing together people and survey data
We are looking for a Financial Modelling specialist to join our growing Analytics Hub and take on a leading role across multiple assignments. The role will involve advising clients and project teams; supporting business development; and coaching and developing junior consultants. To be successful in the role you will need to bring together solid quantitative skills, general consulting capabilities, and a collaborative, down-to-earth style.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day execution of analytics projects (and workstreams within wider transformation projects), including oversight of small consulting teams
- 7+ years relevant professional experience (ideally in Management Consulting, Strategy or Transformation roles)
- Experience leading complex organisation transformation (ideally with experience in operating model and organisation design)
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and hit the ground running in new contexts
- Highly numerate with a solid understanding of financial and commercial concepts and ability to apply this to advise clients in a diversity of settings
- Experience developing high quality financial and operational models in support of major strategic projects
- Excellent communication skills and facilitation skills with the ability to explain complex results or concepts to non-data audiences
- Advanced excel skills and preferably experience in data visualisation
- Advanced problem-solving and critical thinking skills with experience in producing high-quality, insightful outputs
- Entrepreneurial mindset to help grow Q5's analytics practice
- Qualifications in a relevant discipline (e.g. Finance, Economics, Data Science)
Finance
- Performance Related Bonus
- Contributory Pension Plan
- Life Assurance and Income Protection
- New Starter Loan
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Digital GP and Wellbeing Apps
- Internal Wellbeing Programme
- Electric Car and Cycle to Work Schemes
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Subsidised eye tests and support with the cost prescribed glasses for DSE use
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Where this offer sits in the market
Management consultants and business analysts (SOC 2431) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~251k in sampleSOC 2431
- Middle half £40,196–71,188
- Median £53,820
- Going rate £50,200
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £35,100–45,200
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. Q5 holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2431 going rate of £50,200. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.