Employment type: full time Overview Are you someone with leadership and technical capabilities? Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment with both internal and external stakeholders? Are you a trusted partner and a problem solver? If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation, this opportunity is for you! As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen, you will thrive in our fast-paced and agile environment. Your Opportunity We are seeking a highly motivated and data-fluent M&A and FP&A Analyst to be a foundational member of our growing Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. Dillon’s FP&A team is focused on transforming business data into strategic insights that empower our leaders to act. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills and a drive to improve current methodologies to help build a scalable and effective FP&A function. This role will be instrumental in implementing new processes, refining existing models, and transitioning the team's focus from data gathering to high-value analysis. This is a full-time, hybrid position requiring a minimum of three days per week in our London office. Responsibilities Mergers & Acquisitions (Full-Cycle Support) Target Evaluation & Valuation: Support the Director of M&A in financial modelling, valuation, and evaluating potential acquisition targets. Due Diligence: Assist in the financial and operational due diligence process, identifying risks, synergies, and integration requirements. Post-Merger Management & Integration: Play a key role in helping newly acquired companies assimilate into the Dillon culture and track post-merger financial performance. Reporting & Automation Advance & Stabilize our Reporting Suite: Execute key recurring reporting tasks to ensure business continuity, while simultaneously identifying and building automated solutions to replace them. Enhance the "Single Source of Truth": Collaborate with our IT Solutions team to streamline data integration across our systems, enhancing the accuracy and scalability of our financial models. Systems Evaluation: Support the evaluation, configuration, and testing of new FP&A and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) software solutions as the function matures. Automation & Efficiency: Champion a shift in the FP&A teams’s time allocation toward 70% high-value analysis and 30% reporting by automating data integration. Strategic Modeling, Forecasting & Analysis Driver-Based Forecasting: Build dynamic forecast models that allow us to stress-test future scenarios. Value-add Analysis: Analyze complex intersections of data to uncover profitability insights that aren't visible in standard reports. Performance Management & Analysis: Support budgeting and target-setting, while conducting variance analysis that moves beyond simple actuals vs. budget comparisons to provide actionable operational context. Business Partnership Empower Leaders: Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights for non-finance business leaders. Financial Literacy: Support the Manager in training non-finance stakeholders on how to interpret new reports and leverage FP&A insights for decision-making. Qualifications Undergraduate degree in Business, Accounting, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field. 3–6 years in a data-heavy analytical role within Finance or FP&A. Demonstrates a solid grasp of core financial concepts. Bring a proactive approach to leveraging AI and automation to solve complex financial problems and modernize workflows. Experience Comfortable working with large, complex datasets and can conceptualize multidimensional data structures. You enjoy both building new pipelines and optimizing existing logic. Experience building and maintaining data models and dashboards in Qlik Sense, Power BI, or Tableau. Experience working with ERPs and financial systems, with an interest in system implementations and automated data integration. Proven proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation is considered an asset. Experience challenging existing processes to drive efficiency and utility. Experience working in and contributing to a Continuous Improvement-focused environment Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex financial information clearly and concisely. Compensation $70,000 - $105,000 Dillon is including the salary range that we in good faith believe may offer for this position. It will be dependent on the successful applicant’s education, experience, and skills, in addition to internal equity and geographic region. Dillon reserves the right to pay outside of the posted range, contingent on factors unrelated to an applicant’s gender or other status protected by provincial and/or federal law. Why choose Dillon Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop. We live our core values : Achievement: do the work to hit the target; Continuous Development: always learning; always adapting; always growing; Creativity: discover new possibilities; Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard; Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences; Reliability: words result in actions that build trust. In addition, we offer: Employee share purchase plan Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees. A competitive compensation package Comprehensive health benefits Generous retirement savings plan Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions Flexible work hours and hybrid working options Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs. We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible and hybri