The skills this job leans on most
- 1Testing investment business cases under uncertaintyNeeded in 1 of 2 tasks
- 2Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baselineNeeded in 1 of 2 tasks
- 3Running sensitivity and break-even analysis on model assumptionsCore to this role
All 2 tasks, where people get stuck and all 56 skills
Tasks
- Build a defensible business case
- Prepare a periodic performance or risk report for a management or governance committee
Where people get stuck
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Running sensitivity and break-even analysis on model assumptions
All skills
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Testing investment business cases under uncertainty
- Analysing business drivers and contributions
- Analysing costs, allocation and margin drivers
- Analysing pay equity with raw and adjusted pay gaps
- Analysing working-capital drivers and cash conversion
- Building decision-focused reports and dashboards
- Building driver-based financial forecasts
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Communicating sensitive or unwelcome analytical findings
- Comparing options against explicit decision criteria
- Comparing periods consistently
- Constructing a controlled cash-flow plan
- Constructing clear and honest charts
- Defining measurable outcomes and leading indicators
- Designing and comparing decision scenarios
- Designing auditable decision models
- Diagnosing forecast accuracy and bias and comparing methods fairly
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Eliciting the decision behind an analytical request
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Estimating and challenging causal effects
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating and improving chart accessibility
- Explaining how business events flow into accounting records
- Explaining technical work to accountable non-specialists
- Forecasting business trends and turning points for planning
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Identifying and quantifying decision downside and exposure
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Interpreting averages, weighted measures and mix effects
- Interpreting budgets and planning assumptions
- Interpreting correlation without inferring cause
- Interpreting trends and seasonality
- Interpreting workforce metrics and populations
- Judging the materiality of defects and deficiencies for the intended use
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether external evidence applies to the decision context
- Judging whether uncertainty changes the decision
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Reading business metrics
- Reading charts and dashboards correctly, including their state
- Reasoning about systems, feedback and second-order effects
- Recognising and resolving ethical conflicts in data and AI work
- Recognising misleading numerical claims
- Selecting charts for evidence and decisions
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Testing, implementing and sustaining measured improvements
- Variance analysis
- Verifying AI-assisted outputs against sources
- Verifying benefits realisation and attribution
- Verifying reports and dashboards before and after release
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
Paths to start
Skill Path
Data Literacy for Business Decisions
Judge whether a business claim from a table, KPI, chart or dashboard really holds up.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Skill Path
KPI, Variance and Performance Analysis
Explain performance against plan with variance decomposition and driver trees.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
The skills this job leans on most
- 1Testing investment business cases under uncertaintyNeeded in 4 of 5 tasks
- 2Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baselineNeeded in 3 of 5 tasks
- 3Running sensitivity and break-even analysis on model assumptionsCore to this role
All 5 tasks, where people get stuck and all 83 skills
Tasks
- Evaluate a pricing change
- Build a defensible business case
- Prioritise and rebalance an investment portfolio against value, capacity and benefit evidence
- Prepare a periodic performance or risk report for a management or governance committee
- Track and verify benefits realisation against the business case
Where people get stuck
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Running sensitivity and break-even analysis on model assumptions
All skills
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Testing investment business cases under uncertainty
- Analysing business drivers and contributions
- Analysing costs, allocation and margin drivers
- Analysing pay equity with raw and adjusted pay gaps
- Analysing price realisation from list to pocket price
- Analysing working-capital drivers and cash conversion
- Applying research ethics and participant consent
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Building cohort and retention analyses with correct denominators
- Building decision-focused reports and dashboards
- Building driver-based financial forecasts
- Choosing an analytical method to fit the question and data
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Communicating sensitive or unwelcome analytical findings
- Comparing options against explicit decision criteria
- Comparing periods consistently
- Comparing pricing scenarios with demand and margin sensitivity
- Constructing a controlled cash-flow plan
- Constructing clear and honest charts
- Defining measurable outcomes and leading indicators
- Designing and comparing decision scenarios
- Designing and versioning data contracts for consumers
- Designing auditable decision models
- Designing decision-oriented research with customers, users or employees
- Designing experiments
- Designing implementable change plans
- Diagnosing capability gaps from work evidence and planning development
- Diagnosing forecast accuracy and bias and comparing methods fairly
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Diagnosing operational handoffs and flow
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Eliciting the decision behind an analytical request
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Estimating and challenging causal effects
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating and improving chart accessibility
- Evaluating learning transfer and performance outcomes
- Evaluating product outcomes and metric integrity
- Evaluating whether people understood, adopted and sustained a change
- Explaining how business events flow into accounting records
- Explaining technical work to accountable non-specialists
- Forecasting business trends and turning points for planning
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Identifying and quantifying decision downside and exposure
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Interpreting averages, weighted measures and mix effects
- Interpreting budgets and planning assumptions
- Interpreting correlation without inferring cause
- Interpreting customer feedback and qualitative evidence
- Interpreting trends and seasonality
- Interpreting workforce metrics and populations
- Judging the materiality of defects and deficiencies for the intended use
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether external evidence applies to the decision context
- Judging whether uncertainty changes the decision
- Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responses
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Mapping stakeholders' decisions, constraints and needs
- Measuring campaign outcomes with valid denominators
- Monitoring and testing data control effectiveness
- Planning delivery dependencies and the critical path
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Rating risks against appetite and choosing proportionate treatment
- Reading business metrics
- Reading charts and dashboards correctly, including their state
- Reasoning about systems, feedback and second-order effects
- Recognising and resolving ethical conflicts in data and AI work
- Recognising misleading numerical claims
- Revising prior decisions when evidence changes
- Sampling and reviewing a team's work against standards
- Selecting charts for evidence and decisions
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Testing, implementing and sustaining measured improvements
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Variance analysis
- Verifying AI-assisted outputs against sources
- Verifying benefits realisation and attribution
- Verifying project progress against accepted outcomes
- Verifying reports and dashboards before and after release
- Weighing conflicting evidence by design strength
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
Paths to start
Skill Path
Data Literacy for Business Decisions
Judge whether a business claim from a table, KPI, chart or dashboard really holds up.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Skill Path
KPI, Variance and Performance Analysis
Explain performance against plan with variance decomposition and driver trees.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Skill Path
Forecasting and Scenario Planning
Build and challenge planning forecasts and scenarios.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
The skills this job leans on most
- 1Testing investment business cases under uncertaintyNeeded in 4 of 5 tasks
- 2Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baselineNeeded in 3 of 5 tasks
- 3Running sensitivity and break-even analysis on model assumptionsCore to this role
All 5 tasks, where people get stuck and all 83 skills
Tasks
- Evaluate a pricing change
- Build a defensible business case
- Prioritise and rebalance an investment portfolio against value, capacity and benefit evidence
- Prepare a periodic performance or risk report for a management or governance committee
- Track and verify benefits realisation against the business case
Where people get stuck
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Running sensitivity and break-even analysis on model assumptions
All skills
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Testing investment business cases under uncertainty
- Analysing business drivers and contributions
- Analysing costs, allocation and margin drivers
- Analysing pay equity with raw and adjusted pay gaps
- Analysing price realisation from list to pocket price
- Analysing working-capital drivers and cash conversion
- Applying research ethics and participant consent
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Building cohort and retention analyses with correct denominators
- Building decision-focused reports and dashboards
- Building driver-based financial forecasts
- Choosing an analytical method to fit the question and data
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Communicating sensitive or unwelcome analytical findings
- Comparing options against explicit decision criteria
- Comparing periods consistently
- Comparing pricing scenarios with demand and margin sensitivity
- Constructing a controlled cash-flow plan
- Constructing clear and honest charts
- Defining measurable outcomes and leading indicators
- Designing and comparing decision scenarios
- Designing and versioning data contracts for consumers
- Designing auditable decision models
- Designing decision-oriented research with customers, users or employees
- Designing experiments
- Designing implementable change plans
- Diagnosing capability gaps from work evidence and planning development
- Diagnosing forecast accuracy and bias and comparing methods fairly
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Diagnosing operational handoffs and flow
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Eliciting the decision behind an analytical request
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Estimating and challenging causal effects
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating and improving chart accessibility
- Evaluating learning transfer and performance outcomes
- Evaluating product outcomes and metric integrity
- Evaluating whether people understood, adopted and sustained a change
- Explaining how business events flow into accounting records
- Explaining technical work to accountable non-specialists
- Forecasting business trends and turning points for planning
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Identifying and quantifying decision downside and exposure
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Interpreting averages, weighted measures and mix effects
- Interpreting budgets and planning assumptions
- Interpreting correlation without inferring cause
- Interpreting customer feedback and qualitative evidence
- Interpreting trends and seasonality
- Interpreting workforce metrics and populations
- Judging the materiality of defects and deficiencies for the intended use
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether external evidence applies to the decision context
- Judging whether uncertainty changes the decision
- Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responses
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Mapping stakeholders' decisions, constraints and needs
- Measuring campaign outcomes with valid denominators
- Monitoring and testing data control effectiveness
- Planning delivery dependencies and the critical path
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Rating risks against appetite and choosing proportionate treatment
- Reading business metrics
- Reading charts and dashboards correctly, including their state
- Reasoning about systems, feedback and second-order effects
- Recognising and resolving ethical conflicts in data and AI work
- Recognising misleading numerical claims
- Revising prior decisions when evidence changes
- Sampling and reviewing a team's work against standards
- Selecting charts for evidence and decisions
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Testing, implementing and sustaining measured improvements
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Variance analysis
- Verifying AI-assisted outputs against sources
- Verifying benefits realisation and attribution
- Verifying project progress against accepted outcomes
- Verifying reports and dashboards before and after release
- Weighing conflicting evidence by design strength
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
Paths to start
Skill Path
Data Literacy for Business Decisions
Judge whether a business claim from a table, KPI, chart or dashboard really holds up.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Skill Path
KPI, Variance and Performance Analysis
Explain performance against plan with variance decomposition and driver trees.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Skill Path
Forecasting and Scenario Planning
Build and challenge planning forecasts and scenarios.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
About the role
Accountable for finance partnering across several divisions and for a team of Finance Business Partners. Sets how partnering works and answers for the quality of others' business cases. Data and AI judgement sits in deciding what evidence a business case needs before leaders act on it.
