The role
This is a great opportunity to join a high calibre finance team and make a tangible difference to the quality of their operations. You’ll be a valued business partner to stakeholders driving self serve revenue growth, helping the team to deliver on ambitious growth expectations for our variable revenue accounts (VRA) - the founding revenue stream of the business and one with ambitious growth expectations. The role will have two points of focus based on both sides of an ROI calculation: the primary focus being on revenues and understanding the ‘why’ behind the numbers, with a secondary focus on investment and how this shapes performance.
What excites you
- Be a credible and trusted business partner
- Own the budget and forecast process which enables you to deliver models & key analysis for a top down and bottom up planning approach
- Build investment models which are suitable for business input and speak to key metrics
- Consolidate key projects and learnings into digestible and engaging summaries suitable for relevant audiences ranging from non-finance employees to the Board
- Report weekly and monthly on revenue and performance metrics with accompanying analysis and commentary
- Respond to ad-hoc requests for data and insight
- Own the integrity of the rolling spend forecasts and close month end; must work alongside stakeholders to ensure high standards of inputs in order to deliver quality ROI reporting and inform decision making
- Manage one direct report who assists with cost management and ongoing revenue and KPI analysis
What excites us
- Confidence in engaging with stakeholders, especially non-finance professionals
- Enjoy working in Excel/Google Sheets to build financial models of varying complexity
- Capable with working with large data sets and funnel analysis
- Be inquisitive; passionate about interrogating data to understand the ‘why’
- Able to step back from the detail and present analysis at a high level to a range of stakeholders
- Cost management in a commercial context including:
- Accruals, Prepayments and Reconciliations
- Delivering a clean and consistent P&L and Balance sheet
