FP&A Analyst

AnaVation LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company located in London is seeking a Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst to join their team. The role involves analyzing and forecasting financial performance, providing insights, and supporting cost initiatives. Candidates should have FP&A experience, advanced Excel skills, and the ability to communicate financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders. The position supports hybrid work, requiring 2-3 days in the office weekly and the option to work abroad for up to 120 days per year. Diversity is a key focus of the company.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Work-from-abroad opportunities

Support for work-life balance

Qualifications

• Experience in a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) role.
• Able to explain financial performance clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with detailed data, under time pressure, with high accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Act as a financial and commercial business partner to senior management.
• Build forecasts and provide detailed cost analysis.
• Work with stakeholders to prepare discussions at senior forums.

Skills

Financial Planning & Analysis experience

Advanced Excel skills

Understanding of income statement and balance sheet

Experience with SQL

Experience with Tableau

Collaborative approach

Education

Accounting qualification or equivalent

Tools

Anaplan

Tableau

Job description

Our Story

Hello there. We’re Zopa.

We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!

We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.

If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count.Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife

We’re looking for a Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst to join our Finance team. Reporting to the Associate Director, FP&A and working in a team of 10, you’ll analyse, understand and forecast key elements of Zopa’s financial performance, with a primary focus on costs, helping the business grow efficiently.

Alongside analysing and reporting results, you’ll support improvements across costs, revenue and balance sheet, providing insight and challenge to stakeholders.

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A day in the life:

• Act as a financial and commercial business partner to key functions and senior management.
• Build forecasts using historic trends and input from business teams.
• Provide detailed cost analysis and track cost initiatives for your business areas.
• Support product areas with cost-to-serve analysis and insight to drive performance.
• Work with stakeholders to prepare and support discussions at senior forums and committees.
• Provide options and recommendations to improve financial performance.
• Produce MI for internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Board, investors).
• Deliver ad hoc analysis to support commercial initiatives.
• Work with the team to improve use of our forecasting tool, Anaplan.

About you:

• Experience in a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) role.
• Advanced Excel skills, including building models and working with large data sets.
• Anaplan experience is an advantage, or a strong interest in learning it.
• Able to explain financial performance clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
• Studying towards, or recently completed, an accounting qualification (or equivalent) or you're qualified by experience
• Strong understanding of income statement and balance sheet.
• Comfortable working with detailed data, under time pressure, with high accuracy.
• Experience with SQL and Tableau (or similar BI tools).
• Collaborative approach and a constructive, solutions-focused mindset.

At Zopa we value flexible ways of working.

We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week.

You’ll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.

*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice

Diversity Statement

Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.