24 days ago
- LevelSenior
- ProfessionsPlanner, Finance Manager, Accountant
- TypeFull Time
- LocationRemote
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Description
About Tide:
At Tide, we are building a financial platform designed to save small and medium-sized businesses time and money. We provide our members with business accounts and related services, including Cards, POS terminals, Credit services, Expense Cards invoicing and accounting tools and many more. Our vision is to become the world's leading FinTech Platform. We're not just building technology and great products, we're empowering people to make informed business decisions and lifting generations of hard working entrepreneurs.
Launched in 2017, Tide is now the leading business financial platform in the UK with 575,000 SME members (10% market share) and more than 200,000 SMEs in India. Headquartered in London, Tide has over 1,600 Tideans across the UK, Bulgaria, India, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine and Germany.
Tide is rapidly growing, expanding into new markets and always looking for passionate and driven people. Join us in our mission to empower small businesses and help them save time and money.
About the role:
We're seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst to elevate our function by crafting best-in-class financial models that empower senior leadership to make informed, confident decisions. You’ll be at the forefront of driving strategic decision-making across multiple business areas at Tide. The financial models you build will serve as part of the foundation for key business initiatives, providing senior leadership with the insights they need to steer the company towards success.
Tide is growing at a phenomenal rate, and as such the Finance team is expanding and continually seeking to improve the Finance function. We’re looking to build a best-in-class financial platform at Tide, and the Finance Team is no different, seeking to build a best-in-class Finance/FP&A function. You will play a pivotal role in that journey, providing expertise in helping to develop new processes through seeking automation opportunities every step of the way.
As a Senior FP&A Analyst you’ll be:
- Building budgets and financial forecasts as part of the quarterly re-forecasting and yearly budgeting cycle
- Building, updating and monitoring sophisticated financial models for a range of uses: multi year financial forecasts, scenario and sensitivity analyses, business case review, return on investment analysis, workforce planning, etc
- Implementing processes/financial models in order to run Rolling Forecasts
- Working with Commercial and Budget Owners to update, monitor, and improve Management Reports and financial models
- Working with the FP&A, Financial Control and Treasury teams to automate processes across Finance
- Working with the Finance team to complete the monthly close and management reporting process
- Business partnering – working closely with the budget owners to monitor financial performance, provide insights to drive improved financial performance, and seek revenue/cost/margin optimisation opportunities and efficiencies
- Ad-hoc projects
What makes you a great fit:
- You are a qualified accountant or working towards a designation (ACA / ACCA / CIMA equivalent)
- You have high proficiency and deep knowledge of complex Excel/Gsheet financial modelling techniques
- You are confidently able to produce data driven, insightful, and cleanly formatted financial models that follow best practice design/presentation principles
- You are proficient in SQL and/or Python and/or Access and have solid experience automating processes
- You have solid systems ability, in particular knowledge of FP&A systems including AnaPlan or equivalent experience in other FP&A systems
- You are data driven in everything you do
- You have a proven track record with process improvements
- You are confident dealing with senior stakeholders across the business and owning your work with minimal hands-on management
- You are proactive & solution focused with exceptionally high attention to detail and sound analytical skills
- You have outstanding organisational and prioritisation skills including the ability to work to tight deadlines
- You thrive in fast paced working environments
- You have a minimum of five years’ relevant / transferable experience
- You are personable and able to build trusting work relationships
- You may also have experience with key accounting software implementation, such as an ERP system or ‘Best in class’ core finance platforms with integration to HR and financial planning systems
- You may also have experience working at a fintech in Credit and/or Payments sectors
What you’ll get in return:
- A competitive salary
- Share options
- Flexible working options
- 25 days holiday with the option to take 5 extra days of unpaid leave per year
- 3 days paid volunteering or L&D time off per year
- Personal L&D budget of £1,000 professional L&D budget per year
- Group Life Insurance, Vitality Health and Dental Insurance
- Spacious brand-new office by Old Street station with an all-day snacks bar
- Enhanced family-friendly leave
- Access to a global mental wellbeing platform that provides 1:1 video therapy sessions with accredited therapists and unlimited chat therapy sessions
- Work from home budget
- Team socials – virtual and physical events
- Sabbatical leave
Tidean Ways of Working
Make work, work for you! Tide embraces and supports flexible working arrangements. We are a remote-first business that enables its employees to work remotely from anywhere in their home country. Additionally, Our Working Outside the Office (WOO) policy allows you to work from anywhere in the world, up to 90 days per year per country.
We are remote-first, but when you do want to meet new people, collaborate with your team or simply hang out with your colleagues, our offices are always available and equipped to the highest standard. We offer flexible working hours and trust our employees to do their work well, at times that suit them and their team.
Tide is a place for everyone
At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members’ diverse needs and lives.
We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard.
Skills Required
- Accounting
- Finance
- Prioritisation
