Easol is the leading all-in-one ‘experience commerce’ platform built to power experience businesses including festivals, wellness retreats, food and drink, sports and adventure trips. With Easol, experience businesses have complete control to drive more direct sales, retain more revenue, own their data and run their business on their terms.
Easol has deep roots in experiences. The platform was founded by former festival founders, Lisa and Ben Simpson in 2017, after the husband and wife team endured challenges and frustrations first-hand while setting up and growing their own experience business including Rise, Europe’s biggest Snowsports and music festival, and Beyond Adventures, a series of adventure travel experiences in remote locations such as the Sahara desert and the Swedish archipelago.
About the role:
As senior FP&A Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in running and developing our FP&A capabilities. This is a very ‘commercial’ FP&A role - you’ll work closely with account managers, creators and other stakeholders to understand their business cycles, trends, etc. Your insights will help us forecast revenue accurately, optimize financial performance, and support decision-making at both operational and strategic levels.
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Responsibilities:- Forecasting and Budgeting: Own, develop, refine, and maintain financial models to forecast revenue, transaction volumes, and other key metrics.
- Performance Analysis: Monitor and analyze financial performance, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities to provide actionable insights and recommendations to improve gross margins, and operational efficiency - as well as forecasting accuracy.
- Regularly review and update data underpinning our forecasts, e.g. transactional volumes.
- Work closely with Account Managers and Creators directly to forecast volumes.
- Identify investment as well as cost saving opportunities, working closely with teams across the business to integrate the benefits of financial thinking more generally at Easol.
- Develop new, data-driven and scalable processes that will allow us to improve the accuracy and efficiency or our forecasting (partnering with Data Engineers where applicable).
- Prepare and present regular financial reports and forecasts to the team, board, investors, etc. and support the preparation of board materials and investor updates.
About You - Qualified accountant with a few years of audit or comparable accounting / commercial finance experience in a professional services environment.
- 2 - 3+ years of experience working in FP&A or commercial finance functions outside of a professional services environment.
- Some of that will have been in a scale-up / high-growth / tech environment.
- Experience in SaaS, Marketplace and / or Fintech business models would be a plus.
- Proven commercial acumen - you must be able to cut through noise and leverage data to derive commercial insights and drive value for the business.
- Great communication skills - you’ll have to work closely with internal as well as external stakeholders who are not always financially proficient or comfortable with data; being able to translate their insights into data and learnings is central to this role’s success.
- Great analytical skills, proficient in modelling, data analysis and manipulation (ideally able to use data queries)
What you'll enjoy about joining our team- A high-performing team with a great culture of working hard and enjoying team events.
- The opportunity to work in a dynamic, fun and challenging environment.
- Easol strives to create a diverse and inclusive work environment where differences are respected and welcome.
- We will provide enough flexibility and support for employees of all backgrounds and physical abilities to thrive.
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What you’ll enjoy at Easol
🧠 You'll have real visibility of what's happening in the business. We have weekly company meetings, where we all get together to discuss our wins, learning opportunities, our goals and direction.
🗣 There is an open forum for you to have your say in what we do and how we do it. We empower our team to share their ideas - no egos here!
🌏 You'll have access to our incredible perks, such as a company-funded "deep week", where you can travel to a destination of choice and have dedicated time to focus on a project that is important to you without distraction.
💰 In addition to that, we offer a monthly contribution towards a gym membership and your mobile phone contract, an annual personal development budget, support to choose your own equipment and a lot more.
✈ You’ll have 33 days of holidays, inclusive of public holidays.
🌱 Employees of all backgrounds and physical abilities will be supported by us in every way possible to thrive.
