The FP&A Analyst will analyze and forecast Zopa's financial performance, focusing on costs, while supporting improvements in revenue and balance sheet management.
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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!
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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.
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.
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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.
Top Skills
Anaplan
Excel
SQL
Tableau
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